Kushan Perera

New!Microsoft Whiteboard Integration (commercial preview)Microsoft Whiteboard in Teams meetings empowers meeting attendees from the same tenant to participate in the conversation regardless of the device you use or where you are. Whether joining from the meeting room or remotely, you can start a new board in the Teams meeting (currently supported on desktop, web and Surface Hub – coming soon to mobile). The board is automatically shared with meeting attendees. Users can ink together in real-time on the board.  On Surface Hub, Users can launch the native Whiteboard app to enable an even richer collaboration experience with features such as sticky notes, images, and gridlines.  To enable Whiteboard in a Teams meetings on Surface Hub, please turn on feature here
Note: For richer collaboration, please download the latest Microsoft Whiteboard App from the Store (requires User sign-in).Switch cameras automaticallyMicrosoft Teams on Surface Hub now supports switching cameras automatically.  T…

We know that many of you feel overwhelmed with the abundance of workplace tools and applications available to you and your organization. To ease the burden of this overload, we created Microsoft Teams to give you a single hub for collaboration. Teams brings together all your tools, services, and content together in one place.We are finding that many organizations who have begun using Microsoft Teams and have witnessed the transformational power of this hub for teamwork are also leveraging some of the 250+ available Teams integrations. We have also seen many organizations building their own integrations.With that, last week we announced that we are making it easier to manage this integrated experience for your end users. This month we are beginning to roll out new and more flexible ways for you to manage how end users can discover, use, and develop these apps. Here’s a look at what’s new:New capabilities to help drive adoption of specific apps & integrationsAs an admin, you can use…

We know that many of you feel overwhelmed with the abundance of workplace tools and applications available to you and your organization. To ease the burden of this overload, we created Microsoft Teams to give you a single hub for collaboration. Teams brings together all your tools, services, and content together in one place.We are finding that many organizations who have begun using Microsoft Teams and have witnessed the transformational power of this hub for teamwork are also leveraging some of the 250+ available Teams integrations. We have also seen many organizations building their own integrations.With that, last week we announced that we are making it easier to manage this integrated experience for your end users. This month we are beginning to roll out new and more flexible ways for you to manage how end users can discover, use, and develop these apps. Here’s a look at what’s new:New capabilities to help drive adoption of specific apps & integrationsAs an admin, you can use…

We are thrilled to announce that live events are now generally available in Microsoft Teams – enabling anyone to create live and on-demand events to reach large online audiences. Live events in Microsoft Teams enables you to schedule, produce, broadcast and record rich, interactive streaming content. Up to 10k attendees can join live from anywhere and across any device or watch on-demand at their convenience. Live events in Microsoft Teams enable an intuitive end-end experience for the event organizer, producer, presenter as well as attendees:Simple scheduling and set-up experience: Thinking of finally hosting that long-due event? Scheduling a live event and inviting your attendees is a matter of a few clicks. You can create a live event using the same Teams meeting experience that you are familiar with. Using the Teams app, you can assign appropriate attendee permissions, designate event team members, select production method, and invite attendees within your organization or make it …

We know that many of you feel overwhelmed with the abundance of workplace tools and applications available to you and your organization. To ease the burden of this overload, we created Microsoft Teams to give you a single hub for collaboration. Teams brings together all your tools, services, and content together in one place.We are finding that many organizations who have begun using Microsoft Teams and have witnessed the transformational power of this hub for teamwork are also leveraging some of the 250+ available Teams integrations. We have also seen many organizations building their own integrations.With that, last week we announced that we are making it easier to manage this integrated experience for your end users. This month we are beginning to roll out new and more flexible ways for you to manage how end users can discover, use, and develop these apps. Here’s a look at what’s new:New capabilities to help drive adoption of specific apps & integrationsAs an admin, you can use…

We know that many of you feel overwhelmed with the abundance of workplace tools and applications available to you and your organization. To ease the burden of this overload, we created Microsoft Teams to give you a single hub for collaboration. Teams brings together all your tools, services, and content together in one place.We are finding that many organizations who have begun using Microsoft Teams and have witnessed the transformational power of this hub for teamwork are also leveraging some of the 250+ available Teams integrations. We have also seen many organizations building their own integrations.With that, last week we announced that we are making it easier to manage this integrated experience for your end users. This month we are beginning to roll out new and more flexible ways for you to manage how end users can discover, use, and develop these apps. Here’s a look at what’s new:New capabilities to help drive adoption of specific apps & integrationsAs an admin, you can use…

We know that many of you feel overwhelmed with the abundance of workplace tools and applications available to you and your organization. To ease the burden of this overload, we created Microsoft Teams to give you a single hub for collaboration. Teams brings together all your tools, services, and content together in one place.We are finding that many organizations who have begun using Microsoft Teams and have witnessed the transformational power of this hub for teamwork are also leveraging some of the 250+ available Teams integrations. We have also seen many organizations building their own integrations.With that, last week we announced that we are making it easier to manage this integrated experience for your end users. This month we are beginning to roll out new and more flexible ways for you to manage how end users can discover, use, and develop these apps. Here’s a look at what’s new:New capabilities to help drive adoption of specific apps & integrationsAs an admin, you can use…

We know that many of you feel overwhelmed with the abundance of workplace tools and applications available to you and your organization. To ease the burden of this overload, we created Microsoft Teams to give you a single hub for collaboration. Teams brings together all your tools, services, and content together in one place.We are finding that many organizations who have begun using Microsoft Teams and have witnessed the transformational power of this hub for teamwork are also leveraging some of the 250+ available Teams integrations. We have also seen many organizations building their own integrations.With that, last week we announced that we are making it easier to manage this integrated experience for your end users. This month we are beginning to roll out new and more flexible ways for you to manage how end users can discover, use, and develop these apps. Here’s a look at what’s new:New capabilities to help drive adoption of specific apps & integrationsAs an admin, you can use…

We know that many of you feel overwhelmed with the abundance of workplace tools and applications available to you and your organization. To ease the burden of this overload, we created Microsoft Teams to give you a single hub for collaboration. Teams brings together all your tools, services, and content together in one place.We are finding that many organizations who have begun using Microsoft Teams and have witnessed the transformational power of this hub for teamwork are also leveraging some of the 250+ available Teams integrations. We have also seen many organizations building their own integrations.With that, last week we announced (link to EC blog)that we are making it easier to manage this integrated experience for your end users. This month we are beginning to roll out new and more flexible ways for you to manage how end users can discover, use, and develop these apps. Here’s a look at what’s new:New capabilities to help drive adoption of specific apps & integrationsAs an a…

Over the last 4 months, we’ve traveled to 9 countries on Microsoft Ignite | The Tour meeting and speaking with users like you about Microsoft Teams. The insights and feedback at every location has been invaluable — Thank you. During our travels, there have been 10 questions that have repeatedly surfaced. Below are all of the questions — including the answers too, of course!Can you restrict access to a specific channel in a team?What are best practices for governance, specifically around team creation, naming, and retention? Can I add guests to my team? If so, how?How does external access/federation work? How is this different to guest access?What functionalities do I get in a hybrid environment? Is Teams available for on-prem environments?How do I integrate Teams with PSTN Calling?Why should I move from Skype for Business to Teams? How do I make this transition?I have existing SharePoint sites that I would like to bring into Teams. Can I do that? I need to help my company learn how to…

Over the last 4 months, we’ve traveled to 9 countries on Microsoft Ignite | The Tour meeting and speaking with users like you about Microsoft Teams. The insights and feedback at every location has been invaluable — Thank you. During our travels, there have been 10 questions that have repeatedly surfaced. Below are all of the questions — including the answers too, of course!Can you restrict access to a specific channel in a team?What are best practices for governance, specifically around team creation, naming, and retention? Can I add guests to my team? If so, how?How does external access/federation work? How is this different to guest access?What functionalities do I get in a hybrid environment? Is Teams available for on-prem environments?How do I integrate Teams with PSTN Calling?Why should I move from Skype for Business to Teams? How do I make this transition?I have existing SharePoint sites that I would like to bring into Teams. Can I do that? I need to help my company learn how to…

As the fastest growing business app in the history of our company, Microsoft Teams is gaining a strong foothold with our Office 365 enterprise users. Millions of enterprise employees are now starting their day in Teams, living their day in Teams and wrapping up their day in Teams. One of the core value drivers within this productivity workspace is its extensible and customizable platform – essentially bringing modern SaaS app experiences within the scaffolding of the product itself. Thanks to 250+ apps on the public app store and countless more on private, organization-specific app catalogs inside Teams, it’s natural for a typical user to expect her organizational tools and most importantly, common workflows to be accessible inside Microsoft Teams.Broadly speaking, there are 2 methods of surfacing your organizational workflows inside Microsoft Teams:

Code from scratch (CFS) – This is where you go all in and get your enterprise developers to write a web application complete with backend…