Some people move messages from their inbox – either deleting the message or sorting it into an appropriate folder – and, for them, the item count is their “needs to be worked on” list. I mark a message as unread to keep them in my “needs to be worked on” queue, so seeing thousands of messages in my inbox doesn’t feel like an overwhelming pile of outstanding requests. This fact doesn’t bother me at all because “Unread: 2” indicates what still needs to be addressed. Click “Stop sharing” when you are done (or just disconnect from the meeting). Select the screen/application/tab that you want to share and click “Share”. Select the appropriate tab to share your entire screen, a single application, or a single Chrome tab. To share your screen from a Chrome browser, first open in Chrome. But it’s awesome to be able to show someone what I’m working on or let a tech support engineer follow along as I reproduce an error. You have to schedule a meeting, and you still cannot perform remote control operations in the web browser. I can view shared screen, but I cannot remote control shared screens and cannot share my own screen.īut now you can share your screen in a Teams web client. There is one big “missing” feature to me – screen sharing. I use the Teams web client as my primary Teams application – I like it, but it’s also important to be able to identify where the web client falls short of full Teams functionality. They make your post stand out with a caveat – just like marking all of your posts as important, announcements lose their efficacy when every post is an announcement. The post will have a little megaphone logo (this doesn’t show up as a filter option yet, but I expect it will be added in the future) and the banner will make your post stand out in the conversation listing. Click “Done” to accept your crop selections.Ĭompose the rest of the message as normal – you can add a sub-heading and any of the message content available in regular posts. You’ll probably need to crop the image – you can adjust which portion of the image is shown and zoom into the image as needed. Select “Upload an image” and select the file you want to use as the background. You can upload a custom image – you’ll want something that is a long, horizontal rectangle. Click either the color selector or the image selector in the bottom right-hand corner of the banner. You can put text in the banner and customize the banner background. When creating an announcement, the editor will have a banner at the top. When you are in the advanced editor (click “Format” or use Ctrl-Shift-I), you will see a drop-down to change conversation posts to an announcement. This doesn’t address the desire to pin a post so it’s always visible in the channel (click the link and vote if that’s something you want to do too). You should only use this for things that truly warrant it.Teams announcements are another way to bring attention to a specific post. Just remember… if this is overused, then people will learn to visually filter it out when they’re reading a channel. When finished, click the Send icon in the lower right corner:Īnd there you have your new Announcement showing up in your Teams Channel: Now you have your background image, and you can add your subheader and the text of the Announcement. When the image is loaded, you can move it up or down to change the focus of the picture, as well as changing the magnification of what is shown. It’s recommended that you choose something that’s at least 918 pixels wide by 120 pixels high: For this sample, I’ll add a background image:Ĭlick on Upload An Image to add your background. In order to change the Headline banner, click on the color control (left) or the image control (right). It allows you to add a Headline (with different background colors or a background graphic), add a subheading, and then your content with all the text formatting options in the Format toolbar: Here is the blank Announcement post format. In the upper left corner, click on the dropdown arrow next to New Conversation, select Announcement, and hit Enter: To get to the Announcement format, click the Format icon in the lower left corner: Here’s a normal entry to start a new conversation in a Teams Channel. I’ve been waiting for this feature to show up in our Office 365 tenant, and now we have it… Announcement posts in Microsoft Teams! This is a great way to garner more attention to a post in a Microsoft Teams Channel.
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