9 tips for Microsoft Teams meetings

What if you are on the road and don't have Internet access? Audio Conferencing (formally PSTN Conferencing) in team meetings is now available. Audioconference-enabled users will automatically see dial-in instructions added to Teams meetings. Dial-in numbers are supported in over 90 countries, 400+ cities, and 44 interactive voice response (IVR) languages. External dialing to add a participant via their phone number is also supported. The Audio Conferencing service in Office 365 can be enabled for any Office 365 user and adds low-cost audio conferencing to Teams meetings so you can connect and collaborate with individuals on the phone as part of your meeting experiences.
This makes teams a perfect solution where you can communicate and meet with any person inside or outside your organization - even if that person is not a Teams user. With these improvements, here are Nine tips for having more productive meetings with participants inside and outside your organization:

Do you need to meet someone outside your organization? Don't worry, with Anonymous Join , you can schedule a Teams meeting with anyone with a valid email address, even if they are not part of your organization. You can invite any valid email address to a meeting during Teams or Outlook scheduling, and they will receive the meeting invitation in their email with information on how to join the meeting. 
The guest at the meeting can click on the link, enter their name, and join the meeting. Your guest can join on the web without having to install any clients, or if they want additional functionality, such as the ability to start sharing their screen, they can also install the desktop client and join anonymously.

Do you need a few seconds to get everything ready? By default, all participants who are not from your organization will arrive in a virtual lobby, after which you will have to be admitted to join the actual meeting. This is done to increase the privacy of your meetings - but it also gives you time to make sure you are ready for an important meeting with the client. 
In the future, an administrator will have the option to update the settings to allow anonymous users to log in directly without having to log into the lobby.
Do you need a few seconds to get everything ready? By default, all participants who are not from your organization will arrive in a virtual lobby, after which you will have to be admitted to join the actual meeting. This is done to increase the privacy of your meetings - but it also gives you time to make sure you are ready for an important meeting with the client. 
In the future, an administrator will have the option to update the settings to allow anonymous users to log in directly without having to log into the lobby.

Tired of hearing a dog barking? In large meetings (> 5 people), anyone entering after the meeting has started will enter without sound, thus reducing noise in the meeting. Also, if you notice any noise from other people you can silence that person or everyone easily from the list. 
If someone has been muted, they will receive a notification informing them. They can turn the sound on if they need to be heard. If you need to silence everyone the other participants in a meeting, go to your meeting list and select 'Mute All'. Everyone will receive a notification and can turn the sound back on if necessary. 

Who has time for downloads?! Now you can enjoy a plug-in free experience in a web browser where a meeting or call simply works! You can simply go to teams.microsoft.com in Edge or Chrome and join a Teams meeting or in Edge to start a 1:1 call.
Now you can join a meeting or call even when you don't have access to the Teams app via your desktop or mobile device.

With this recent release, you can now join an Edge meeting with audio, video, and screen sharing. If you are joining from Chrome, you can join a meeting with audio and screen sharing - joining with video via Chrome will be available soon.

Don't want everyone to read your e-mail when you share your desktop? With application sharing , you can choose to share a specific window instead of your whole screen. 
Rest assured that your desktop screen or notifications are not shared when sharing your content in the meeting.

With this recent release, you can now initiate 1: 1 calls from the Edge, including video, audio, and make and receive calls ( Phone calls in Teams require the user to have an Office 365 calling plan ). 1:1 links in Chrome will be available soon. Support for other browsers is planned for future releases. 

What happens when you see something that someone else doesn't? With Application Sharing If someone is sharing your desktop, you can request control or make the sharer provide control of your work area.

Have you ever forgotten to turn on the sound before making a big point in a meeting? With I Nteractive Troubleshooting , Teams will alert you if it detects that you are trying to talk, but you are still muted. 
This is the first scenario of many scenarios in which teams can proactively detect and advise participants about common problems that may affect their productivity during a meeting.

If you need to troubleshoot a user's meeting as an administrator , o Call Analytics provides you and your helpdesk professionals with the ability to search a Teams call history for calls and meetings for a specific user to help troubleshoot those experiences.
If a user is using Teams and Skype for Business Online, we've made sure that the tools you leverage for Skype for Business work in Teams too. With Call Analytics view all your users' calls are in one place and we make it easy to identify which customer has been used. 
For each call, detailed metrics are provided that can help identify issues affecting the audio quality of the call or meeting. For more information about Call Analytics, see: Set up Skype for Business Call Analytics , Use Call Analytics to troubleshoot low call quality in Skype for Business e What is the difference between Call Analytics and Call Quality Dashboard?