Patch Lady – what’s this thing called Teams

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If you have Office 365 pro plus you are in the group that Microsoft is your deployment admin.  And your deployment admin (Microsoft) pushed out Teams
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Sort of scratching my head at the assertion made in the post that “there’s no obvious way for a regular user to suppress Teams and stop it starting”….. because there is:

 

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Did you mean Themes or Teams?

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Microsoft Teams.  Not themes.

https://products.office.com/en-US/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software

 

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Yep!

The current version of Microsoft Teams has this setting panel. Can disable auto-start, or re-enable it. Change the theme of team. Much more.

Documentation: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/change-settings-in-teams-b506e8f1-1a96-4cf1-8c6b-b6ed4f424bc7

BTW, Teams is turning out to be one of the better additions to Office 365 for my teams/clients.

Go team! 😀

~ Group "Weekend" ~

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Well at least Teams seems to cope just fine with running on multiple devices.

Unlike Skype for Business, which just… didn’t.

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Skype for Business is a superior program for instant-messaging a coworker or group of coworkers, and for remote control of someone’s desktop. And it has a really small footprint.

If Teams is in fact replacing Skype for Business, I hope it has all of that.

Group "L" (Linux Mint)
with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server

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No, Skype for Business is not very superior at messaging… if your coworker is logged in on multiple devices, Skype for Business delivers reliably messages to *at least one* of those, and which device it is may change between messages.

Not fun.

Teams delivers to *all* of the active devices. (Oh and there’s an actual Linux client too.)

Also I haven’t seen it make a mess of a phone’s contact listing yet.

Footprint isn’t actually very small though, and it has an overabundance of features.

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I use Skype for Business as an integral part of my job:
* I teach classes to groups of students, and I use Skype to screen-share to the group.
* I instant-message one or more of my coworkers.
* I do remote-control of the user’s computer as part of my tech-support duties.

For all of these scenarios, Skype for Business is superior. Not sure about any other scenario, because this is all I do with Skype.

For me it has a small footprint – it stays in the background unless someone tries to contact me. I don’t even notice that it’s there unless I look for it.

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with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server

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