\n 2. Meeting Options<\/strong> \u2013 allows you to control your online meetings more closely. Once the online meeting is saved, you can go back into the meeting and change the settings to control the \u2018lobby\u2019 ( a virtual waiting space that allows you to screen participants) and to decide who can share content \u2013 this is especially ideal for webinars and reaching out to your partners and customers in these COVID-19 times.<\/p>\n Note also that Teams no longer displays the phone numbers for people calling in from outside your organisation using Teams Voice \u2013 providing them some privacy.<\/p>\n While you are on this menu, it might be worth testing out the Whiteboard.\u00a0 We have used this to share ideas with a virtual whiteboard, which operates fantastically for those of us that use digital pens.<\/p>\n \n 3. Larger groups<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can now have up to 300 people in a chat!!<\/p>\n \n 4.Set up an Instant meeting in a channel<\/strong>\u00a0for all participants (this will pop up in their chat feeds)<\/p>\n \n 5.\u00a0 \u00a0And finally, personalised backgrounds<\/strong>. This is fantastic if you are working from home and you need to be on video but don\u2019t want people on the call to see into your home environment. \u00a0\u00a0You can easily add new backgrounds such as your business logo and key messages.\u00a0 I have experimented with a photo of my desk from my laptop webcam \u2013 so it looks like I am at work… even when I am not…!!!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Its hard to imagine working through the lockdown without fast fibre internet connections and tools like Microsoft Teams.\u00a0 \u00a0There is nothing like an imperative to help us drive change and we have seen that with Teams evolving rapidly to meet market needs.\u00a0 Here are our top FIVE recent enhancements.\u00a0 How many did you know about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Its hard to imagine working through the lockdown without fast fibre internet connections and tools like Microsoft Teams.\u00a0 \u00a0There is nothing like an imperative to help us drive change and we have seen that with Teams evolving rapidly to meet market needs.\u00a0 Here are our top FIVE recent enhancements.\u00a0 How many did you know about already?\n 1. [wow_colorme]\u00a0Pop-out chat<\/strong> [\/wow_colorme]- you can now double click on a chat or right-click it to pop it out to it\u2019s own window \u2013 leaving you free to keep working in the rest of teams while having one or more, chat conversations.<\/p>\n [wow_spacing size=\"30px\"]<\/p>\n 2.[wow_colorme]\u00a0\u00a0Meeting Options<\/strong> [\/wow_colorme]\u2013 allows you to control your online meetings more closely. Once the online meeting is saved, you can go back into the meeting and change the settings to control the \u2018lobby\u2019 ( a virtual waiting space that allows you to screen participants) and to decide who can share content \u2013 this is especially ideal for webinars and reaching out to your partners and customers in these COVID-19 times.<\/p>\n Note also that Teams no longer displays the phone numbers for people calling in from outside your organisation using Teams Voice \u2013 providing them some privacy.<\/p>\n While you are on this menu, it might be worth testing out the Whiteboard.\u00a0 We have used this to share ideas with a virtual whiteboard, which operates fantastically for those of us that use digital pens.<\/p>\n [wow_spacing size=\"30px\"]<\/p>\n 3.[wow_colorme]\u00a0Larger groups<\/strong>.[\/wow_colorme]\u00a0 You can now have up to 300 people in a chat!!<\/p>\n [wow_spacing size=\"30px\"]<\/p>\n 4.Set up an [wow_colorme]Instant meeting in a channel<\/strong>[\/wow_colorme]\u00a0for all participants (this will pop up in their chat feeds)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/TmsPopChat.png\")
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