Martin Gibney - Microsoft Teams

Rolling out now is a new feature in Teams Calendar I noticed today. When you click on a Teams Meeting now, you will get a pop up within the same screen showing some options such as Join  or the option to change your response. You can also Chat with participants .

  Hard Mute / Don’t allow attendees to unmute This feature is now rolling out (at least in Education Tenants). Basically this allows the presenter to block users from unmuting themselves. From the ellipses (…) button at top of the screen, click on Don’t allow attendees to unmute . If this is implemented before attendees join the meeting, I found that it will actually mute them from the start. It will also mute all attendees once you select this option. You will be given the following warning to let you know what will happen: Attendees will get the warning on their screen:   Once this is enabled by the presenter, the attendee can only unmute themselves if the presenter turns the feature off for everyone or If the attendee raises their hand and then the presenter can allow them to unmute individually. What the presenter sees if the attendee does NOT raise their hand: What the presenter sees if the attendee DOES raise their hand: Clicking on Allow to unmut

Methods for presenting PowerPoint in Teams. In Microsoft Teams we have two main methods for a presenter to present a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. There are distinct differences between both of these methods.   METHOD 1 Simply open your PowerPoint application on your local PC and share the PowerPoint application window: Ø   Ensure you open PowerPoint application on your desktop and then open the presentation you wish to share. You can right click in the presentation and go to Presenter View  if you wish and the participants will continue to see the normal presentation and not the presenter view. Ø   Press the share button, then under Window click on the PowerPoint you are going to share: PRO CON You know exactly what the participant sees Can be confusing if using a single monitor with presenter view. Need to Alt + Tab  between notes/presenter screens. Participants can’t move through the presentation out of order