tips & tricks to support modern teamwork & collaboration
Creating polls with Microsoft Forms is not a new feature on Microsoft Teams. It have been possible to utilize Forms bot for creating polls, but using a bot is not so intuitive for end-users - at least I always needed to check, what the actual format was to create a new poll. With Forms message... Continue Reading →
Archiving is a good way to clean-up unused teams from end-users, but still keep conversations and content. When team is archived, it's also removed from Your teams and Hidden teams lists. Archived team is still accessible with search and via Manage teams -view, but sometimes you might want to access it quickly and have it... Continue Reading →
Every team needs an owner, at least one. Common best practice is that you should have at least two users in owner role. Teams is not allowing the last owner to leave the team, but there might occasions when last owner is removed, example when people are leaving the organization and account gets deleted. For... Continue Reading →
Since Microsoft Teams is taking more and more control over organization communications, there might be a need for displaying certain discussion, like important announcement or conversations from organization wide team, on SharePoint Online. As a low-code solutions, this requirement can be fulfilled with help of Microsoft Flow, SharePoint list and list view formatting. #1 Create... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Flow -palveluun julkaistiin maaliskuussa (2019) uusi toiminto, jolla voi lähettää adaptiivisia kortteja Microsoft Teams kanavalle. Toiminnon avulla voidaan määrittää tiimi ja kanava mihin adaptiivinen kortti lähetetään sekä määrittää adaptiivisen kortin sisältö ja hyödyntää Flow:n dynaamista tietoa kortin sisällössä. Adaptiivinen kortti - mikäs se on? Adaptiiviset kortit (Adaptive Cards) ovat yksinkertainen tapa luoda yhteinäisiä ja... Continue Reading →
New Microsoft Flow action for posting Adaptive Cards as a bot on Microsoft Teams channel was released on March 2019. New actions allows you to create a customized Adaptive Card with your content and posting it to selected Microsoft Teams channel. Adaptive Cards - what they are? Adaptive Cards are a simple way to create... Continue Reading →
Muistutustyönkulut SharePointin listoihin ja kirjastoihin julkaistiin Targeted Release Office 365 -tenantteihin tammikuun 2019 alussa. Uusi muistutustyönkulku on SharePointin toiminnallisuus, joka luo listaan tai kirjastoon liittyvän Flow:n päivämääräkentän perusteella. Kun uusi päivämääräkenttä lisätään listanäkymään, tarjoaa Flow-valikko valinnan, jonka avulla uusi työnkulku luodaan. Oletuksena toiminnallisuus luo uuden Flow:n, joka lähettää muistutukset sähköpostilla työnkulun luoneelle käyttäjälle. Tässä esimerkissä... Continue Reading →
Reminder flows for SharePoint lists and libraries were published to Targeted Release Office 365 tenants in the beginning of January 2019. Reminder flow is an very simple way to create a reminder based on date column on a list or a library on SharePoint. When date column is added, the Flow menu offers "Set a... Continue Reading →
Just over a year ago I wrote a blog about building an intranet with Microsoft Teams (only in Finnish then). Since then Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 ecosystem have evolved in really daunting pace, so I though to wrap up my thoughts about relationship between intranet and Teams, and also challenge my own thoughts from... Continue Reading →
