June 19, 2020

Awarded as Microsoft Regional Director

I am very happy and honored to have been selected into the exclusive Regional Director Program by Microsoft!

Your nomination by either a Microsoft employee or an existing Regional Director is a testament to your ongoing impact to both Microsoft and the community.

What is the Microsoft Regional Director Program about?
Regional Directors act in a non-paid advisory capacity with Microsoft. On an ongoing basis, RDs are asked to participate in scheduled strategic feedback sessions with Microsoft senior leadership teams. Because of their community leadership positions, passion, commitment to technology and business excellence, RDs have a regular outlet where they can express real-time customer and community feedback directly with Microsoft engineers and the senior leadership team (source: rd.microsoft.com).
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April 12, 2020

Set any picture you like as custom background in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft is currently rolling out the Custom Background feature, which allows the background to be exchanged in a team meeting. This feature is based on the already known background blur feature.

While currently only predefined backgrounds can be selected, according to the Microsoft roadmap, it should be possible to upload and use your own backgrounds in May.
Those who cannot wait that long can already upload their own backgrounds now. Read more

April 4, 2020

Public Live Events are grayed out in Microsoft Teams

If you do not see an option Live Event in the Teams application, read this article.

The Public Live Event option is deactivated by default.

It is used if live events are to be made accessible to people outside your own company (without login).

To allow public live events, proceed as follows:Read more

March 31, 2020

Join a Teams Meeting without a Microsoft Account

It's not really something new, but I have found that many (new) Microsoft Teams user do not know that

• invitations can be sent to all existing email addresses out there, even if they are not licensed to Office 365 or connected to Azure AD. This also includes public consumer accounts such as Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo etc.

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March 24, 2020

Live Events not available in Microsoft Teams

If Public Live Events are grayed out in Microsoft Teams, read this article.

With Teams live events, users in your organization can broadcast video and meeting content to large online audiences. Teams live events are considered the next version of Skype Meeting Broadcast. It allows the streaming of content to the following groups:

• Selected users and groups in your organisation
• Everyone to your organisation
• Public - Outside your organisation. Users can join anonymously

By default in the global policy, live event scheduling is enabled for Teams users, live captions and subtitles (transcription) is turned off, everyone in the organization can join live events, and the recording setting is set to always record. Users in your organization will get the global policy unless you create and assign a custom policy.

But on my Tenant the option Live Event was not available. The activation worked for me as shown below:Read more