Archive for December, 2016

Microsoft Teams: Meetings and Files

This will be the final post (for now) in my Microsoft Teams series.  Previously I wrote about the apps you can get with the new tool as well as I spoke heavily on the chat feature.  In the future I intend to discuss further how Teams works in the back-end and how it integrates into SharePoint Groups.  Today I am going to finish off discussing Microsoft Teams: meetings and files and how they integrate into the tool and different ways to use them.  If you are looking for the other posts I have completed on Teams please click on one of the links below:

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Getting User Data from People Picker with JavaScript

Back in the SOM (Server Object Model) days it was pretty straight forward and well documented how to gather a user’s information from within a SharePoint form, or even go out and get it from SharePoint itself having just a single piece of information like email, login name or even just the user’s first and last name.  While there are techniques to doing this from the client side using CSOM (Client Side Object Model) or REST APIs what if you didn’t need ALL the user’s information and just needed a few important parts of it.  If the form you are working in has a people picker then you are all set.  Today I am going to show you all about getting user data from People Picker with JavaScript.

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Microsoft Teams – Chat Feature

Continuing with the Microsoft Teams series I am working on I will move into the chat feature.  This is the largest feature within Teams and is already the most used.  Within the application, it actually feels like Teams is built around the chat feature instead of chat simply being a component of a larger application.  If you are looking for the other posts I have completed on Teams please click on one of the links below:

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Microsoft Teams – The App

The other day I posted my initial thoughts on Microsoft Teams.  To put it bluntly, I really like this new collaboration tool that Microsoft has provided.  It brings all the power of Groups plus throws on great add-ons like chat, video meeting, favorite (quick) tabs, notifications and an app for your Windows or Mac machine as well as your smart phone and tablets.  Today I want to talk about the Microsoft Teams app itself.  I’ll talk further on the other features in future blogs.  To view the other posts I have completed on this series please select from a link below:

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