Category: Teams

Skype for Business

Skype for Business is Going End-of-Life in 2021. Here’s What You Need to Know.

It’s official: the days of Skype for Business are numbered. The slow-but-steady end-of-life plan for Skype for Business, and its replacement with Microsoft Teams, was announced in 2017 but it actually begins in July 2021. Here’s what UK businesses need to know.

Teams Roundup

Microsoft Teams Release Roundup: January / February 2021

Microsoft Teams is fast becoming the most popular digital collaboration platform for UK businesses, and it only looks set to grow in 2021. In this first release roundup for the year, we’ll cover the latest feature updates for Teams during January and February 2021.

Video Calling

10 All-New Microsoft Teams Features You (Probably) Didn’t Know About

Microsoft Teams is perhaps the fastest-growing collaboration platform in the world. It’s growing so fast, in fact, that you might have missed several handy new features added in 2020. Here are 10 of our favourites.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Release Roundup: September / October 2020

With more than 100 million users, Microsoft Teams is fast becoming the most popular digital collaboration platform for UK businesses. In this release roundup, we’ll cover the latest feature updates for Teams during September and October 2020.

Microsoft Teams Whiteboard

Microsoft Teams Release Roundup: July & August 2020

As one of the go-to platforms for remote working, Microsoft Teams is being developed at a rapid pace. In this release roundup, we’ll cover all major Microsoft Teams updates during July and August 2020.

Working together as a team

10 Essential Small Business Tips for Microsoft Teams

With 75 million daily active users, it’s no surprise that Microsoft Teams is fast becoming a household name at small businesses across the UK and the world. Want to do more with the platform? With these 10 essential tips for Microsoft Teams, you’ll be a Teams maestro in no time.

Teams vs Webex vs Zoom Showdown

Microsoft Teams vs. Cisco Webex vs. Zoom: The Definitive Collaboration Showdown

2020 is fast becoming the year of working from home. But with so many remote team collaboration tools out there, which platform is best for your team? In this collaboration showdown, we’ll compare three popular choices: Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, and Zoom.

Microsoft Teams Together Mode

Feature Focus: Together Mode, Dynamic View, (and More) for Microsoft Teams

As the battle for supremacy in the digital workspace rages, Microsoft has ramped up its updates for Microsoft Teams. In this edition of Feature Focus, we’ll explore the newest features announced in July 2020: Together Mode, Dynamic View, and several other small updates.

Teams vs Zoom: Which is better?

Last week, Get Support’s founder James Craddock, sparked a debate on LinkedIn while giving a balanced response to the question: Which is better, Microsoft Teams or Zoom? In this article, we look at some of the comments and provide our own opinion too.

Microsoft Team's new 3x3 layout

Feature Focus: The 3×3 Grid View for Microsoft Teams

Virtual meetings are quickly becoming the new normal, but big meetings can still feel a bit impersonal when you can only see a handful of faces at a time. In this Feature Focus, we’ll take a look at feature for Microsoft Teams which aims to change all that: the 3×3 Grid View.

Microsoft Teams Custom Background Demo

Feature Focus: Custom Background Effects for Microsoft Teams

Whether you’d prefer to keep your messy bookshelf to yourself or simply want to keep focus on the meeting, there are plenty of reasons to use background effects in Microsoft Teams. In this Feature Focus, we’ll explore video call backgrounds in Teams and even show you how to set a custom image of your own.

Sharing data with external guests

Be Our Guest: The 2020 Guide to Managing External Users in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is fast becoming the go-to solution for collaborative work online. But what happens when you’re working with people outside of your business? Should you grant Guest access or External access? In this guide to external access in Microsoft Teams, we’ll answer that question – and more.

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