This Week in Teams Episode 13 – July 27, 2020

This
week saw some interesting market announcements from the industry. Slack is
taking Microsoft to anti-trust
court in the EU. Google announced that Gmail
will continue to be the center of their collaboration strategy. And Zoom
has been surprised by Microsoft in usage stats.

For
users of multiple tenants, frustrated with the web browser profile game,
someone found a hack
to load multiple instances of Microsoft Teams — but neither Craig nor Jay
have tested it. If you do, let us know how it worked!

Microsoft
and the NBA have taken an interesting spin on how to have live games without
fans – and are bringing
the fans in via Together Mode on 70+ foot wide screens! While there are a
number of privacy and security concerns – including, how do we keep trolls from
putting inappropriate content on their screens in a live video share – but this
takes pulling fans in virtually to a new level. Certainly more interactive than
MLB’s cardboard cutouts!

Last
week was Microsoft
Inspire, their annual partner awards festival, and with that came a few
interesting announcements.

For
one, Lists
are officially rolling out in August, and this is a GREAT step forward for
end-user use of the powerful tools in SharePoint.

Next,
DataFlex
was announced as a rebrand
of the Common Data Service (CDS) but more specifically, DataFlex for Teams
was announced as a low-code option for developing some really powerful apps and
bots within Microsoft Teams. We’re looking forward to going into this in a bit
more depth next week with special guest Bobby Chang.

In
other rebranding news, Microsoft
Meeting Rooms are now Microsoft Team Rooms, and with that branding comes
change in administration and integration with the flagship collaboration hub,
Microsoft Teams.

And
lastly, a very excited announcement of the newly released Adoption.Microsoft.Com
– while there is a heavy focus on Microsoft Teams,