Roger Pollini

Roger Haueter

Modern Workplace Strategist

Microsoft Regional DirectorMicrosoft Most Valuable Professional Reconnect

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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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


Get your free Microsoft Teams subscription for six months

Because of the Coronavirus, Microsoft offers its collaboration application Teams for free. Currently there are three variants:

There is already a free teams version available since 2018. This version is slightly limited in its functions (e.g. less storage space, no phone calls to landlines, etc.).

Since March 2020, Microsoft offers the following two additional deals:Read more


Listed as top SharePoint Blog in 2020 by Feedspot

techtask.com is listed in Feedspots "Top 75 SharePoint Blogs, Websites & Influencers in 2020" among many other famous SharePoint resources. According to Feedspot these blogs, websites and influencers are ranked based on following criteria:

  • Google reputation and Google search ranking
  • Influence and popularity on Facebook, twitter and other social media sites
  • Quality and consistency of posts
  • Feedspot’s editorial team and expert review

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Delete orphaned synced Users or Groups in Azure AD

After Azure AD Connect has been removed, you discover that your Azure AD has a lot of orphaned users and groups from the no longer existing on-premises Active Directory. You cannot delete them from the Azure Portal GUI, but you can delete them by using PowerShell.
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