Starting in late September 2024, Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams that have had no activity for a year or more, and whose owners do not respond to warning notices, will start to be deleted. Any activity in the Group or Team from any member within thirty days of the owner receiving the deletion…

Microsoft Teams is the collaboration tool of choice for faculty and staff at Cornell, but it's not without its quirks. If Microsoft Teams notifications have been troublesome, it may be because your notifications are set to be too general. Getting constant updates about conversations that aren't…

Microsoft Teams channels have a small  ⓘ  button for each channel in the top right of the screen.   The Channel Info button makes these relevant details easily accessible. Click the icon to see the channel description, membership, relevant apps, pinned posts, and recent…

As a result of pricing changes from vendors who supply Cornell with cloud document and file storage services, Cornell added storage quotas to Microsoft Teams accounts in 2024. The maximum storage quota for a Teams group is 50 GB. Check Your Current Storage Starting in February 2024, most…

Collaborating Within the Cornell Community At Cornell, there are two instances of Teams. One includes Ithaca and Cornell Tech, and the other includes Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. When working with people in the same instance as you, you have a choice of using a…

Approvals is a native Teams application that lets you create, manage, and share approval requests and sign-offs. You can quickly start an approval flow from the same place you send a chat or have a channel conversation, or from the approvals app itself. A feature has been added that lets you…

A new, faster Teams app will soon be available. New Teams will also streamline and focus the look and feel of notifications, search, messages, and meetings. When it becomes available, estimated sometime in November 2023, it will be possible to try it by flipping a toggle in Teams, then switch back…

If you need to move large amounts data (for example your entire email history or cloud storage drive), you should take advantage of one the robust tools available to Move Your Personal Data. If you have a small amount of data -- just a few files or folders -- then it may make sense to transfer…

PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams offers several benefits over screen-sharing your PowerPoint presentation window or editing window. 

Microsoft recently added an option that, when set, automatically schedules an online meeting (using either the Microsoft Teams or Zoom integration) when scheduling any new event in Outlook. If you do not use Teams for online meetings, or if you would prefer not to have an online meeting…

Microsoft Teams is a workspace messaging app that provides real-time collaboration and communication with virtual meeting capabilities, and easy file sharing. Because it's part of Microsoft Office 365, Teams has features that reduce the steps needed to help university faculty, students, and…