Episode 189 – Teams Client Updates

In Episode 189, Ben and Scott discuss some of the enhancements to the Microsoft Teams client on desktop and mobile with the public rollout of pop out meetings and chats as well as the Tasks app in Teams for task management across Planner, To Do, and Outlook/Exchange Online mailboxes. Transcript class="fbxt-header--nav-item fbxt-nav-email" href="#" style="display:none" > Email class="fbxt-header--nav-item fbxt-nav-download" href="#" > Download class="fbxt-header--nav-item fbxt-nav-new_tab" href="#" > New Tab - Welcome to episode 189. This is Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast recorded live on July 31st, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of our it pros and end users. Where we discuss a topic or recent news and how it leads to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott discussed some of the enhancements to the Microsoft Teams client on desktop and mobile with the public rollout of pop-out meetings and chats, as well as the Tasks app in Teams for task management across Planner, To-Do and Outlook or Exchange Online mailboxes. - So guess what I did in honor of episode 189, which means absolutely nothing. And then we're getting close to 200. Will we need to do something fancy for episode 200? - No, we'll be there right around conference season. Right around the socially distance conference season. - Yes. Although I am going to one conference there. As in person as of yet, we will see. Mark Rack. I am braving Mark Rackley's North American collaboration summit at this point in time. - Yeah. I don't know. Have you checked the news this week? I know you've been remote up there. - I am hiding from the news. - Google is officially remote until summer 2021. Microsoft, I think we're not far behind. Like nobody at Microsoft is going back until at least January 2021. CES is going virtual. Let's put it that way. - I saw that I did see CES was going virtual. - That's the point that we're at. - Though to be fair, I mean, Mark Rackley is great, but his conference also is not quite as big as CES. Because of all of it understandably so his registration dropped. So I think it's gonna be a combination of in-person and virtual and then yeah. He's doing some things, but I think because registration dropped, it's gonna be a lot easier to socially distance there. I think he's working on some things. Again, we'll have to see, 'cause there it is still a couple months away. - It'll be interesting. - It shall be. But that is not what I'd do in episode of 189. I actually pushed the button and upgraded to Big Sur. So I could not take it any longer. - So there is no upgrade to Big Sur. It's a beta. You should not be doing this. You should be playing with the mm-hmm map with Sean and I. - Sure to not tell me about the mm-hmm map. No, I've actually been surprised. It has been three or four days now. I have two apps that just don't work. They're minor ones. One of them is the bartender app that I use to help manage my menu bar. And the other one is my TripMode app that helps me control which apps are allowed to access the internet. Particularly when I'm in a hotspot, my bandwidth is limited. Neither one of them are day-to-day critical. But other than that, everything has actually been working really well. - You're a brave soul . And would you look at that. - I don't know if I'm classified as brave.