What are the new features of Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams has recently announced rolling out new features for better collaboration. Teams are committed to reimagine virtual collaboration for the future of work and learning. Teams feature like meeting controls, larger gallery, Meeting notes, together mode, and many others are being rolled out.

We’ll take a look in a while.

But first, you’ll have to turn it on

In your Microsoft Teams desktop app, select a profile pic. Then Go to Settings > General.

Turn on new meeting experience and Restart the app.

New Meeting and Calling Experience in Microsoft Teams

• Microsoft Teams group video call

There are a few new meeting controls on the top of the meeting screen. They are available for access at all times and do not become a hurdle in the way of content sharing.

• Larger Gallery

With this feature, you’ll be able to see 49 videos streaming all at once. The minimum number of attendees needed for this view is 10.

• Together Mode

With this mode one, you’ll feel like all of the attendants in a meeting are in the same place. It is a fun way to interact and make you feel you and your meeting attendants are together in a meeting room. Minimum 5 participants are needed in a meeting in Together mode.

• Meeting Notes

Now you can easily take meeting notes right from within Microsoft Teams. You can either take notes from a meeting notes tab or open a side panel that opens alongside the meeting screen.

The Microsoft Teams has remarkably been an important element in online collaboration. Businesses also opt for other remote collaboration services like Remote Desktop Services, Work Folders, and Windows Virtual Desktop services.

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MachPanel Turnkey Services

In the highly competitive market, it is always time-consuming and costly to set up collaboration solutions like Remote Desktop services, Skype for Business Server from scratch. Not only does it require a skilled IT team to set up the services at your end but it may also hinder business flow for a few days which is indeed costly. MachSol offers enterprise turnkey services for various Microsoft accredited products that can keep your business flow smoother than you think while you migrate to the modern collaborative solutions that can be used in combination with Microsoft Teams for a next Level collaborative experience.

MachPanel is a robust turnkey solutions provider platform where you can get Microsoft’s services like Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, Dynamics 365 CRM, Hyper V, and Skype for Business Server on-prem deployment. MachSol also provides hybrid deployment so if you are not ready for a full on-prem or deployment or cloud-based services, you can always opt for the hybrid thing.

Why MachSol?

Modern businesses also opt for business automation services for better collaboration within a company via SharePoint Sites, Microsoft Exchange Services, Hyper V, Dynamics 365 CRM (for better Customer services), and many more. Our experts are more than ready to analyze business requirements. MachSol is equipped with the latest infrastructure to deploy and implement those services without major disruption to your business flow.

Stay aligned with the latest offerings from Microsoft and get them through the turnkey services offered by MachSol.

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In the past couple of years, having a centralized server and managing documents and collaboration was considered a more tech-savvy approach. However, with the rapid adoption of the cloud, more cloud-based collaboration platforms have emerged. These are adopted by companies at their own pace.

SharePoint Online is the tool of the future

If there’s one capability that SharePoint has: It can transform the way you do business. It provides the resources needed to create websites with pages on the company’s intranet so that critical cloud-based business information is organized, stored, and easily shareable and accessible.

What are the Microsoft SharePoint online benefits for business?

Let’s have a look at SharePoint online benefits for cloud-based business:

• Improve data management

With SharePoint, you get a golden ticket to modern data management approaches. Today, employees have to deal with data, all the time. May it be checking and responding to emails, or dealing with customer support requests, generating marketing reports or meeting minutes. SharePoint provides the gateway towards a more organized data management approach. Plus, sharing the data with others on a team, or across the team isn’t much of a problem with SharePoint.

• Simplify business functions

The typical business functions include activities like collecting feedback, tracking issues, routing documents for approval, and many more. SharePoint provides out-of-the-box approaches and workflow designs that automate these processes. They can be integrated into web browsers for consistent user experience.

• Regulate Compliance and Security

Compliance regulations and security is a thing of today. While companies grow, there are more compliance requirements and security methods that need to be kept under check. Consequently, you can’t just trust any new software in the market. But no, SharePoint Online is secure and it has been around for a long time, thus, fully trustworthy for business use.

• Optimize Content Delivery

While companies look for new ways to optimize content, that continues to grow at a high pace, they also look for solutions that perform document tracking, keep revision histories, and provide a robust content control. All of it comes with SharePoint. SharePoint online benefits include Content approval, editing, maintaining and publishing is a smooth process now.

• Increase Productive

Apart from a Centralized Administration, there are many more content management methods that make you increase productivity and provide benefits for business. Manager can keep their SharePoint Site organized so that they can have a quick look at the content before making a decision. When content is organized, you get more time stuff other than just hunting down your systems for data.

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MachPanel automation module for Microsoft SharePoint

MachPanel is born-in-the-cloud robust cloud provision and business automation platform. Since it is designed for business, MachPanel inherently understands your business automation needs. Its automation module for SharePoint provides Complete Orchestration for Hosted SharePoint Service Providers and Enterprises. With MachPanel, you get to have a simplified approach towards billing, management, and reporting. This gives you ample time to work on the focused areas rather than get indulged in messy billing. With MachSol’s turnkey services for Microsoft SharePoint, you get all the expert support for design and deployment, planning and migration, reliability, and scalability.

Get started with MachPanel and keep your cloud-based business aligned with modern and simplified SharePoint services.

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Microsoft SharePoint has always been successful in keeping its customers content with a promising Content management system. Giving a collaborative environment and offering users to make best use of a CMS which caters the state-of-the-art requirements in technology, cloud business and social sharing.

There are many features in Microsoft SharePoint that make it a great content management system to work with like Asset Library, which manages users’ media assets like audio and video content. Furthermore, there is a content organizer that sets content to autopilot with a set of routing rules that locate the relevant content to appropriate location in the library. In addition to this, a managed Meta data service allows you to specifically define formal and informal Meta data which come handy while using the next feature on the list: Metadata-driven navigation. Users are even facilitated with a feature of sharing content types amongst site collections

New Actions for SharePoint CMS in Flow

Enhancing user experience of SharePoint CMS, Microsoft has introduced two new document management actions for SharePoint in Flow. Using Microsoft Flow, the flow of document check-out is automated. Flow authors will now be able to check-out the document, make necessary edits and finally check-in the file to library. This is made available via SharePoint connector.

Activity Highlights

In the File Hover Card, the Activity Highlights feature is being provided for a better user experience to customers. With this, you can have a quick look at the usual activities in the documents that you are an author of.

Bulk Approval

Finally, many steps automated into a single step of approving pending documents. Now you can select multiple documents pending for selection and approve them in one go, an easier approach to automate tasks in your cloud business.  You can also do the same if you wish to reject the documents. Daunting tasks, made simple.

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MachPanel Automation module for Microsoft SharePoint

Vanity and Sub domain site collection, User Sharing for multiple services, DNS & Host Header Handling, turnkey services and many more features are supported by MachPanel – industry’s best Web Hosting Control Panel with Complete Orchestration for Hosted SharePoint Service Providers and Enterprises. MachSol consists of experts who can guide you through your cloud automation journey with necessary tools and services including Microsoft SharePoint 2019. From planning, design, deployment to migration, all the processes are carried out in a reliable manner. You can scale up or down according to your cloud business needs and stay in control of billing, provisioning and management smoothly.

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