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This skill focuses on advanced features and troubleshooting techniques for Microsoft Teams, particularly for users with a Teams Premium license. It covers the differences between standard and premium licenses, highlighting features such as intelligent recap, live translated captions, custom branding, and watermarking. The skill also provides guidance on managing attendee views and privacy settings during meetings. Additionally, it offers troubleshooting steps for common issues, both within the Teams application and externally, to enhance user experience and efficiency.

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Skill 10 of 10 in Microsoft Teams

Welcome to the last Skill in our course, "Microsoft Teams for End Users." Thank you for choosing me to be part of your journey. I hope that you have learned about Microsoft Teams' features throughout this course and now consider yourself a Teams power user.

In this last Skill, we will cover some specific features available to users who are assigned a Microsoft Teams Premium license. Not sure if you have this license assigned to your user account? You can ask your IT folks for verification or see if your Teams client has the features discussed in the upcoming videos. Then, we will close out the course by looking at a few tips to troubleshoot Microsoft Teams when encountering issues.

Note: Some features this training covers may require specific permissions or licenses assigned to your user account. Additionally, particular settings may be disabled due to policies set by your organization. Please contact your Microsoft administrator for assistance if you encounter any restrictions.

Meeting
Meeting

Teams Premium Licenses

Before diving into specific Teams Premium features, we will discuss the differences between a Teams license and a Teams Premium license..

Knowledge Check

Teams Premium licenses are a replacement for Teams licenses.

Teams Premium | Manage what attendees see

The "Manage what attendees see" option in Microsoft Teams lets the meeting organizer or presenter control what attendees (especially those not presenters) see on their screen. You can pin the content that you want attendees to see, therefore not allowing those attendees to see random camera feeds or sidebar content.

Knowledge Check

In what section of the Teams Meeting settings is the "Manage what attendees see" option visible, provided you have a Teams Premium License?

Teams Premium | Hide Attendee Names

“Hide attendee names” improves privacy by preventing attendees from seeing each other’s names while allowing users with specific roles to maintain complete control and visibility.

Knowledge Check

When the option "Hide attendee names" is chosen, what roles can still access the names of folks in a meeting? (Choose 2)

Teams Premium | Other Meeting Options

Next, we explore some additional Teams Premium License features that we can utilize in our meetings. The options we are going to discuss and demo are:

  • Turn off copying and forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, and transcripts
  • Apply a watermark to shared content
  • Apply a watermark to everyone's video feed

Knowledge Check

True or False: The restriction on copying meeting chat messages still applies when a Teams Meeting has occurred in the past.

Teams Premium | Intelligent Recap

Next, we look at Microsoft Teams' Intelligent Recap, a Premium feature that creates AI-generated notes and summaries.

Knowledge Check

Where would a user navigate to access Intelligent Recap for a past meeting?

Troubleshoot Microsoft Teams Issues

Now, it's time to look at troubleshooting issues within Microsoft Teams. Problems out of your control could arise, and they may require the help of the good folks, the IT guys and girls, who administer your environment to resolve the issue. My goal here is to help you troubleshoot Teams to find the root cause of your problem more accurately or to give the IT department helpful information about the troubleshooting steps you performed to expedite your solution.

Video 1

We go over troubleshooting steps that take place outside of Microsoft Teams.

Video 2

We go over troubleshooting steps that you can perform within the Microsoft Teams application.

Knowledge Check

How would you collect Teams Client Logs that you eventually want to share with your IT department?

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Challenge
Challenge

Knowledge Check

Which of the following is not a feature of Microsoft Teams Premium?

Knowledge Check

What two options are available when applying a watermark to shared content or everyone's video feed that affects how the name or email will be displayed?

Knowledge Check

What is one of the main benefits of Intelligent Recap in Teams Meetings?

Knowledge Check

Within your Teams settings, what does "Make a test call" do?

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Teams Premium Licenses

0:00So in this video, we'll talk about what it means to have this license with

0:02features that are now available to you.

0:04And in the following videos, we'll go to some demos of some of these features.

0:08In order to have access to and to run Microsoft Teams, there are certain

0:13licenses that your organization will need.

0:15So here, everyone dive into the type of plan or license that you may need.

0:20I want you to take away that we need certain licensing to even begin to use

0:24Microsoft Teams.

0:26And having this license allows you to use the many features that you and I have

0:30gone through throughout this course.

0:31We also have Microsoft Teams Premium.

0:35And Premium is not a replacement for the Microsoft Teams license.

0:40Microsoft Teams Premium is an added license to Microsoft Teams.

0:49With Teams Premium, we get additional features, focus on intelligence, personal

0:54ization, and also security to enhance our Teams experience.

0:58So I'll just say that you may or may not have access to these features

1:03depending if you are assigned a Teams Premium license.

1:07So in other words, you may or may not have access to these features that we're

1:12about to talk about and go through in our demo.

1:16Depending if your organization purchase a Teams Premium license and two, if

1:21that license is assigned to your account.

1:23So this webpage that we're looking at does have a comparison chart, but I want

1:28to show you if we go down to a chart here,

1:31here are the features you would get if you are licensed for Microsoft Teams.

1:35And here are the additional features that you would get in the event you have

1:38Teams Premium.

1:40So once again, I'm not going too deep here, but you can see that we have

1:44additional features when we have Microsoft Teams Premium on top of our

1:48Microsoft Teams license.

1:50So let's talk about some key features that really stand out.

1:54One being intelligent recap.

1:59So here, Teams automatically generate your meeting notes, also recommend any

2:05tasks, along with personalized highlights using artificial intelligence.

2:11This is super useful in the event that you missed the meeting, or maybe this

2:14meeting occurred a month ago, and you want quick access to key information that

2:18occurred within that meeting.

2:20We also have live translated captioning transcripts.

2:20participants that speak several different languages.

2:25Here we are providing real time AI power translations for captioning

2:29transcripts that occurred during and after a meeting.

2:32This is definitely useful in the event that you have a meeting, meaning we have

2:41We also have custom branding, so we can customize meeting backgrounds and also

2:45add organizational logos and colors to meeting lobbies and invites.

2:50For custom branding, we're creating this professional and branded experience

2:54for our clients.

2:55We can also take advantage of meeting templates.

2:58So here we have a template of the different settings of a meeting.

3:01Then we can use over and over again to ensure a consistent meeting experience.

3:09We also have watermarking, and this allows us to protect our sensitive

3:12information or content during the meeting.

3:15We definitely see how that works when we demo watermarking later in this skill.

3:19We also have high attendee names, so imagine if you have a very large meeting,

3:25using this feature prevents others from seeing who is joining the meeting or

3:29the information.

3:30So instead of focusing a name and email address, you'll simply see attendee.

3:37During the meeting, we can also manage where attendee sees.

3:40Here we have full control of what content that folks would see in the meeting,

3:44along with enabling them the ability to share content.

3:48And finally, we have engagement reports, and we saw this in a previous video

3:53where we saw who attended our meeting along the stage and also who interacted,

3:59so here think about reactions, and we also saw who had their microphone or

4:04camera turned on.

4:06Here we only have so many features that you would get access to in the event

4:09that you were assigned the Microsoft Teams Premium License.

4:12There are many more features now listed here, but you can find them within this

4:15document.

4:16In this skill, we'll highlight some of these features and go through different

4:19demos.

Teams Premium | Manage what attendees see

0:00So first we'll look at a feature called Manage with a 10 DC.

0:04We'll go ahead and configure this in one of our meetings and go through a demo.

0:08Currently in my environment, Pedro is assigned a team's premium license.

0:17So Thomas, Mero, and Sierra along with myself do not have the license, but once

0:23again Pedro does.

0:25So Pedro will schedule a new meeting like so.

0:33Alright, we'll go ahead and pick a title.

0:37So here I want to invite Thomas and Sierra.

0:43So next I want to go to more options.

0:47Now also I'm going to bring up Mero and also spin up her team's client so we

0:51can see what Mero does not have matches to.

0:54So I'm going to go ahead and pick up the schedule because he has a team's

0:57premium license.

0:59Alright, so let's go to calendar.

1:02Also go to new meeting.

1:06Now we named this delete me because I'm not going to save this meeting, but I'm

1:11going to put Thomas and Sierra here as far as invitations.

1:17Now for Mero, we'll also go to more options.

1:21So here we go to engagement.

1:26We have an option here to manage what attendee see.

1:31If I go to Mero and go to engagement.

1:35No, it's here that Mero does not have this option.

1:38Alright, so going back to Pedro.

1:42Notice I cannot enable this option.

1:44So look at our description here.

1:52Make someone a presenter to manage this meeting.

1:55Alright, so it's got a rose here.

1:58What I'm going to do is assign certain people in my meeting to be a presenter.

2:04So I will choose here Jackson, like so.

2:07And now if I go to engagement, at this point, I'll have the ability to turn

2:12this option on.

2:14Alright, so we'll go ahead and save.

2:17And at this point, I had said.

2:23Alright, so let's go ahead and join this meeting.

2:30Alright, going back to Pedro.

2:32So here we see that Pedro and Sierra have this view for the reason being that

2:36Pedro is an organizer.

2:40And we also specify that Sierra can present.

2:43What we notice to view that Thomas has.

2:46In fact, if we focus on here, so the organizers control attendee audio and

2:49video in this meeting.

2:51Then we have another message here.

2:53That I Thomas have been muted.

2:57You also see my microphone has been disabled so I can no longer unmute.

3:01In fact, we see it grayed out there.

3:04We also see that my camera is disabled and I can share a video.

3:08And we also see that right there.

3:12So here Pedro and Sierra can manage what attendees can see in this meeting.

3:17So for example, if I go to Sierra Jackson, I have the ability to bring her on

3:21screen.

3:22So if I go to Sierra, what I'm going to do is turn her camera on.

3:26Like so.

3:29Alright, so there's a camera for Sierra.

3:32If I go to Pedro, I do see Sierra's camera.

3:35But if I go to Thomas, he still doesn't see anything.

3:38But now if I go to Pedro, go ahead and bring Sierra onto the screen.

3:42Like so, at this point, Pedro will not see that camera.

3:48Let's add the baby to take her off screen.

3:51Like so.

3:55So Thomas no longer sees Sierra's camera.

3:58Alright, going back to Pedro.

4:00If I go to people here, if I let me turn my camera off.

4:05There we go.

4:07So going back to people, no one's here for Thomas Smith.

4:10Here I do have the option to bring Thomas on screen to make a presenter or

4:14remove him from this meeting.

4:16But here if I bring Thomas on screen, like so, if I go to Thomas, now I do have

4:22the ability to unmute my microphone.

4:24Right here, I don't have a camera because I don't have a device connected to

4:28Thomas.

4:29We also see that I am not visible to everyone in this meeting.

4:34It also says that my camera has been enabled, but I don't have one.

4:38So in fact, let me go ahead and take Thomas off screen.

4:44Like so.

4:46So give me a moment as I connect the camera to Thomas.

4:49Alright, so I'm back.

4:54What I'm going to do is make Thomas on screen again.

4:57Like so.

4:58Let's go to Thomas.

4:59So now we see here that I do have the ability to unmute my microphone like so,

5:03so I can do that along with sharing my camera.

5:08In fact, we see that right there.

5:10If I go back to Pedro and take Thomas off screen as I'm doing right now.

5:16If I go back to Thomas, it knows once again, he loses his ability to enable or

5:22control his microphone and camera.

5:24So here with the feature, manageable attendee see, Pedro has the ability to

5:29really control video feed.

5:31For which video feeds are spotlighted or shown during the meeting, and which

5:35ones are also hidden from view.

5:37This feature also gives us the ability to determine if a user or an attendee to

5:43that meeting can either enable

5:45along with disable the microphone or camera or even mute the microphone.

5:50[BLANK_AUDIO]

Teams Premium | Hide Attendee Names

0:00So let's right now we look at the higher attendees name feature with their

0:03Microsoft

0:03teams.

0:04So I'm going back to Pedro.

0:06We do a new meeting.

0:08Let's name this one product demo.

0:11And this time we're going to invite everyone.

0:15All right, next we go to more options.

0:21And here under roles, we have an option to hide attendee names.

0:25Let's go to my room.

0:26We'll go to roles for her, notice that she does not have this option.

0:31All right, going back to Pedro, you see that is currently disabled.

0:35It will highlight our description here that this prevents attendees from seeing

0:39each

0:39other's names in the meeting.

0:41Organizers, presenters, and applications will still have access to the names.

0:47To use this setting, make someone a presenter and turn on before the meeting

0:52starts.

0:53Now here we notice we have several options so we can choose everyone.

0:58We can choose people in my organ guests as far as folks who can present certain

1:03people

1:04along with only organizers and co organizers.

1:07Keep in mind if I choose people in my organ guests, I can enable this feature,

1:12but there

1:12is one problem.

1:14This would not give me the behavior of hiding attending names for the reason

1:19being anyone

1:20in my organization or guests can present.

1:23Going back to our description here, organizers, presenters, and applications

1:27will still have

1:28access to names.

1:29Let's go ahead and change this to only organizers and co organizers.

1:35What I'm going to do is make my role a co organizer.

1:39All right, so at this point, I will save my changes.

1:44We'll go ahead and choose send.

1:46All right, so let's go ahead and start this meeting and have everybody join.

1:52So here logged in as myself.

1:59I see a message here.

2:00My name is hidden from all other attendees.

2:03Organizers and presenters can still see my real name.

2:06So here Pedro is the organizer.

2:10The maara is the co organizer.

2:15This is the reason that I can see their names.

2:18We see here that we have two other folks part of this meeting, but notice I don

2:22't see their

2:22name.

2:23I simply see attendee.

2:24So let's go over to zero and we should see the same there.

2:29So we see Pedro and maara and we have two attendees there.

2:33Let's go to Thomas and we see the same thing.

2:37But notice if I go to Pedro here, Pedro can see everyone's name.

2:42So we see Thomas Smith here.

2:43We see Sierra Jackson and we see me.

2:47And maara being the co organizer shows you the same.

2:51We also see the attendees Thomas Smith, me and Sierra Jackson.

2:56So here we have a really cool option and we want to protect the identity or the

3:01name of

3:01the attendees of our meeting.

3:02[BLANK_AUDIO]

Teams Premium | Other Meeting Options

0:00So in this video, we'll look at some additional settings that we would have in

0:03the event you had a Microsoft Teams premium license.

0:05All right, going back to Pedro, let's go ahead and spin up a new meeting.

0:09Let's go ahead and name this roadmap.

0:13What we're going to do is also invite everyone once again.

0:19All right, so what that done is go to more options.

0:24So let's go to recording and transcript.

0:28Notice we do have the ability, like everyone else does, to record and transc

0:32ribe automatically.

0:33But we also have the ability to determine who can record and transcribe in our

0:37meetings, along with who has access to the recording and transcript.

0:41Going by tomorrow, if I go to recording and transcript.

0:45Notice that she does not have the option for her account. Why? Because she does

0:50not have a Microsoft Teams premium license.

0:53All right, going back to Pedro.

0:55So here, I'm going to change this.

0:59Two on the organizers and call organizers can record and transcribe.

1:02Let's go to security.

1:05Well, so one to do, turn off copying and forwarding of meeting chat live capt

1:10ions and transcripts.

1:11We'll go ahead and name with that.

1:13And this option will be useful in a meeting where we're discussing some

1:17sensitive topic.

1:19There may be a company merger or maybe financials and we want to prevent.

1:27Attendees or employees from copying chat messages, live captions or transcripts

1:32.

1:32And also we'll apply a watermark to share content.

1:36We see a note here that people will see their email or guest name as a

1:42personalized watermark.

1:44So imagine if Tom would join his meeting.

1:47And let's say someone else in this meeting shared a confidential document.

1:53Then Tom would look at that share content, but his email address will be overl

1:58aid over that content.

2:00Therefore, discouraging Tom for taking a screenshot.

2:04But the reason being that watermark contains his name and email address.

2:08So in the event that screenshot was lived out, everyone would know it came from

2:13Tom.

2:13I'm going to go ahead and do the same for a video feed, which I can't see.

2:17Let me go ahead and maximize this.

2:21Let me scroll down a bit more and we can do the same for everyone's video feed.

2:26So we can see in both cases, we can set the pattern to be repeated or single.

2:32So for repeated, your email address shows up multiple times, which single is

2:37the name will indicate when it appears one time.

2:39And we also can set the transparency level.

2:43All right, so that we save.

2:45All right, we'll hit send.

2:50So let's go ahead and hit join.

2:54And also we have everyone else joining this meeting.

2:59All right, so here we have a meeting pinned up.

3:03Let me go to Sierra here.

3:05I'm going to do a share my screen.

3:08Like so.

3:16So here I don't have any sensitive content I'm sharing, but imagine if I did.

3:21If I go to Thomas.

3:23We do see I'm looking at Sierra shared session.

3:27But my email address Thomas at R dot demo dot com is faster over the screen via

3:33that watermark.

3:34If you go to Pedro, we see the same thing about my room.

3:39Then we see my room at R dot demo dot com.

3:42And the same thing with my session.

3:45Here, a watermark is repeated, but if I chose single, I'll point the email

3:50address which show one time.

3:53All right, so let me stop sharing content.

3:56So you see Thomas here, we're to turn on his camera, like so.

4:04All right, there we are.

4:06Now Pedro, he's my video feed.

4:09But notice that my email address that being Pedro is shown on a video feed.

4:14Same thing for my room along with zero and my account.

4:19All right, so let me turn the camera feed off like so.

4:23So at this point, we've seen a watermark shown when someone shares content or

4:28on their video feed.

4:29So now let me go to chat here and simulate a conversation.

4:34All right, so here we have a meeting chat with our sensitive information.

4:39So now Thomas can look at this, go to our chat.

4:42And then think to himself, this is some juicy information.

4:47So what happens if I were to highlight this and go to copy, like so.

4:53So I'm going to show you how to do this.

4:57So again, this prevents someone from your meeting, copying any information from

5:02your meeting chat.

5:02Now keep in mind, this is not stopping anyone from taking a screenshot with

5:07their phone, for example, or some desktop application.

5:10But at least they can't copy information from the meeting chat.

5:17So imagine if Pedro were to turn on descriptions, let's go to transcription.

5:24We're here confirm.

5:26All right, we'll wait for that to start.

5:30All right, there we go.

5:34And Thomas, here's my phone.

5:35So I'm going to show you how to do this.

5:38So I'm going to show you how to do this.

5:40So I'm going to show you how to do this.

5:41So I'm going to show you how to do this.

5:43All right, there we go. And Thomas, here's my microphone.

5:47Let me go ahead and change the microphone to that camera, like so.

5:51When will we let the public know?

5:55All right, so now I go back to Pedro.

5:58And now we see that Thomas did say some phrases.

6:01Unfortunately, I said it multiple times, but that's okay.

6:04So now we see transcription.

6:06So here someone like Sierra can go to more, the core and transcribe, throw

6:11transcript.

6:13So now Sierra should be able to see this transcript.

6:16So now if I attempt to choose copy here,

6:21it'll policy, we cannot copy the transcript.

6:25So where Sierra also turned on live captions.

6:34So going to language and speech, show live captions.

6:37Let's go to Thomas here.

6:40I will unmute my mic.

6:42Hello, one of this occurring, a disappearing next month.

6:45All right, so I don't see it there because I forgot to unmute my mic.

6:49Hello, it is occurring next month or six months from now.

6:53All right, let's look at Sierra.

6:55And we see that right there.

6:56If I try to copy this, we can see here, do the policy, we can't copy captions.

7:01So we verify that we have turned off copying and forwarding of mini chats,

7:07live captions and transcripts.

7:10All right, so let's go to our meeting.

7:11We'll go ahead and choose end like so.

7:14So now if I went to this meeting that just occurred,

7:22this roadmap 2025.

7:24And then go to chat here.

7:28Let's see if I try to copy this, what occurs?

7:32So we can see here the restriction also kicks in after the meeting has occurred

7:38.

7:38So in this video, we saw some additional features that we have in the event

7:42where

7:42signed the Microsoft Teams premium license.

7:44license.

Teams Premium | Intelligent Recap

0:00So let's look at one of the more impressive features within Teams in the event

0:03that you have

0:04to premium license that would be intelligent recap. So in this video we'll see

0:08what this feature does

0:09and go through a demo. So once again the feature is called intelligent recap.

0:14This is a AI or artificial intelligence powered feature.

0:21One intelligent recap does is generate meeting summaries. So after the meeting

0:29has occurred,

0:29you can generate key points of the meeting and the action items or any

0:34personalized highlights.

0:36In order to access intelligent recap, you need one or two licenses, either a

0:42Teams premium license

0:44or a Microsoft 365 co-pilot license.

0:55And co-pilot is really Microsoft's artificial intelligence assistant.

0:59Built into apps like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word itself among other

1:04applications.

1:05So earlier this morning offline, I had a meeting. So let's go ahead and expand

1:10this.

1:10So this meeting was between Pedro, the organizer, who has a Teams premium

1:19license,

1:19along with Tommy Smith and Sarah Jackson. And the topic of this meeting was

1:24Tampa, Florida,

1:25update. Now we have a recap tab right here. We see here this meeting was

1:31recorded.

1:32We also have a transcript and also we can see who was in attendance. Keep in

1:37mind for intelligent

1:38recap to work, recording and transcript have to be enabled for that meeting. So

1:44before we go to

1:45recap here for Pedro, let's go to Thomas and let's go ahead and check out that

1:49meeting and his

1:51point of view. So if I go to expand here and here, if we go to recap, what do

2:01we see?

2:01So Thomas doesn't have access to this recording, but we have certain sections

2:09here that are

2:10blurred out. In order to access these sections, we need access to Microsoft

2:16Teams premium.

2:18For us, luckily, Pedro does have the license. So if we go to Pedro, like so, we

2:22're going to go to recap.

2:24We could definitely see Pedro has access to additional content. So we can see

2:33we have AI notes.

2:34So intelligent recap has provided meeting notes for his meeting. So we see here

2:41we have issues

2:42with the AC along being short staffed. We have a dark door that is malfunction

2:48ing. If we scroll down,

2:51we see that we have good notes summarizing this meeting. Let's go down to the

2:57bottom for action

2:58items or follow up task. We see that we need to reach out to a recruiter in

3:03Atlanta.

3:04We have to contact the recruitment agency and also we have to call maintenance.

3:10So imagine how

3:10useful this is, especially this meeting occurred two weeks ago, or if I need to

3:14send updates via

3:15email or chat or some other communication method about this meeting. All right,

3:21we're

3:21going down. We see additional tasks. Here we go, a note here. We can add

3:27meeting notes. We do have

3:28a mention here. We're going down a bit more. We have our speakers in the

3:33meeting. So we can see

3:35when exactly they spoke. And in fact, we can go to that portion of the meeting

3:40like so. We have topics.

3:43So we can see this portion of the meeting was opening of the temple warehouse.

3:48Was about navigating staffing and infrastructure changes. We also see chapters.

3:55We're going to scroll down a bit. We can see those two topics were split into

4:01chapters.

4:03We can see here the additional functionality that you and I get with

4:07intelligent recap.

4:08Let's go to attendance.

4:10So here we can see we have our participants when they first join or last left.

4:19We have the role

4:20for teams premium gives you insight to the engagement. So in this meeting, we

4:25happen to have no engagement,

4:26but in the event that we did, we see that data here. In fact, we have an

4:32engagement tab right here.

4:33So once again, this is only a demo. But if I had actual meeting, I can see the

4:39number of total

4:40reactions, raise hands. How many folks unmuted their microphone or the non-

4:45camera. This is all

4:47information that one would not see if they did not have the Microsoft Teams

4:51premium license.

Troubleshoot Microsoft Teams Issues

0:00So, let's you and I will look at troubleshooting issues for Microsoft Teams.

0:03Now, for many issues, you might have to get your IT department involved.

0:06After all, that's what they do for a living and you use Microsoft Teams for

0:10your everyday

0:11task.

0:12So, in this video, one of the series and troubleshooting steps that can help

0:15you resolve the issue

0:15yourself and minimum, help your IT department and those guys and girls resolve

0:20your issue

0:21a lot quicker.

0:24Maybe you join a meeting or a call and you are unable to hear other folks in

0:28that meeting.

0:29Maybe those folks can't hear you.

0:32Maybe your audio and video are choppy.

0:36Possibly your call has been dropped.

0:38Maybe the Teams application will not load on your desktop or laptop.

0:42Or maybe we can join meetings or you don't have any notifications.

0:47So here we have confidence issues the most users will experience at some time.

0:52Maybe the first thing we do is we start our Teams application or device.

0:58And I know you may say to yourself, this is what they always tell me to do

1:02first.

1:03And to be honest, if I would support your environment, I would tell you the

1:07same thing.

1:07Because many times this does resolve the issue.

1:11When possible, I tell people to perform or for reboot.

1:15For the reason being, you never know what other applications you are running on

1:19your

1:19desktop or laptop that could be causing issues.

1:22But let's say a reboot was not possible for whatever reason, you can restart

1:27the application.

1:28Keep in mind, when you restart the application, you simply can't close it.

1:36Why?

1:37Because the application is running in the background.

1:39You have to do a right click here and choose Quit Teams.

1:43And at this point, Microsoft Teams is now fully closed.

1:47So now if I wanted to restart, I just click on my Teams icon here.

1:50And now the application launches once again.

1:53And now the thing you could do is check your internet connection.

2:01In order to use Microsoft Teams, we need that connectivity out to the internet.

2:06Going back to Thomas.

2:09So let's say he opens a browser.

2:14Maybe I go to a website that I have not visited before.

2:18In this case, tbtenugets.com.

2:23We received that the page does load successfully, so I do have connectivity out

2:27to the internet.

2:28And then I want to like to use, it's a website called fast.com.

2:34Fast.com is a free internet speed test website that's provided by Netflix.

2:39So here we're testing the speed of your internet connection against Netflix

2:43servers, which

2:44really gives us a good indicator of streaming performance.

2:48So here in my environment, I do have a pretty good internet connection.

2:52Now for best practice, Microsoft Teams suggests at least two megabits per

3:00second upload.

3:02And also two megabits per second download.

3:07That's the amount of bandwidth for connection Microsoft suggests for our audio

3:13only calls,

3:13our video calls, our group video calls, and also a screen share.

3:18So here we see my download speed, if I hit show more info, and then we see my

3:22upload speed

3:23there.

3:26Now we also should be checking DNS.

3:28DNS is an acronym for domain name system.

3:32So without going too deep, DNS is a phone book of the internet.

3:37What DNS does is take a web address, like for example, it'd be browse to tbten

3:43ugets.com

3:44and translate that to an IP address, for example, this IP address right here.

3:50Computers and devices use IP addresses to communicate.

3:54But DNS names are easier to remember.

3:57Would it be easier for me to tell you to open up your browser and go to cbtnug

4:03get.com

4:04or open up your browser and go to 3.222.69.24.

4:08So let me show you a tip here, let's go back to Thomas.

4:16We're going to do on his window desktop, open up a command prompt.

4:19So I go to CMD and use our command prompt.

4:26So let me make this full screen here and increase the font just a bit.

4:31We can use the ping command.

4:33This ping command is send a new message to another computer or to a website,

4:37pretty much saying,

4:38hey, are you there?

4:39For example, whether ping teams.microsoft.com.

4:48So we see here that we are getting a reply.

4:50So that's good news.

4:52But notice when I enter in teams.microsoft.com, what DNS does is convert that

4:58to an IP address.

5:00This case, which is two that 123 the 180 14.

5:04So let me clean my screen.

5:05So let's say we did a ping for DNS Google.

5:13This DNS host name is always translated to either 8.8.8 or 8.8 of four.

5:25That's exactly what we see here.

5:29So in the event, we did not get a response here of this one that we see on the

5:36screen.

5:37You can do a ping the IP address of all eight.

5:42Like so.

5:44I can also ping eight dot eight dot four, the four.

5:54So here we see that we are getting successful responses.

5:57And let's see that up here also.

6:01So in the event that we did a ping DNS Google.

6:09And did not get a response.

6:12What did get a successful response when picking the IP address here?

6:17This could be an indication that your DNS is not working or your names are not

6:21being

6:22translated properly to IP address.

6:25This is something you couldn't fit, but you can make your IT department aware.

6:29Here's what I did.

6:30I said what's going on to a system in a troubleshooting.

6:35What I'm going to do is to disable my network card, which is simulate that I

6:39have no internet

6:40connectivity.

6:41So let me go ahead and disable this.

6:48Microsoft Teams to show banner on top indicating that we don't have any

6:53internet connectivity.

6:55Did we see that banner on top indicating to us that we don't have an internet

7:01connection

7:02or we have a problem with that connection.

7:04All right, so let me go ahead and re-enable my connection.

7:10So soon after that banner goes away.

7:15Thank you.

7:16[BLANK_AUDIO]

Troubleshoot Microsoft Teams Issues

0:00So let's say we have audio and video problems in our meeting.

0:03We can go to settings here like so.

0:08Let's go to devices.

0:11So here for audio settings we can verify that we have the correct speaker and

0:15the correct microphone identified.

0:17So here having the wrong device can definitely cause you to have issues.

0:22We also have the ability to make a test call.

0:27So here just verify that our devices are working properly.

0:30So teams will record my voice and then play it back to me.

0:34So I'm finally may enable the sound here.

0:37So next we'll choose make a test call like so.

0:43And let's see what we hear in the background.

0:46There we go.

0:48There's our camera.

0:54Good morning is it a test or I should say good afternoon. Thank you.

0:58Good morning is it a test or I should say.

1:01If you're happy with the quality of your message then you've configured teams

1:04correctly.

1:05If not check your device settings and try again.

1:09All right and there we go.

1:11We can see here that a microphone was tested along with our speaker or a camera

1:16and on the work connection.

1:17All right. So we'll close this.

1:20If I scroll down a bit this should be section here for my video.

1:23Once again ensure that you have the correct video device chosen.

1:27Keep in mind we can access the microphone and camera settings or where in the

1:33meeting and a meeting is in progress.

1:35Maybe you're using teams not in a desktop client as we see here but via the web

1:40browser.

1:41We have to ensure that the browser has the necessary permissions to access your

1:45microphone and your camera.

1:49All right so here we have firefights here.

1:51So I am logged in.

1:53Let's say I want to give serial call.

1:56So if I choose video call.

1:58So here I'm prompted to allow Microsoft Teams to use my microphone and camera

2:05via the browser.

2:07Once again I have to be sure to choose the correct camera and also the correct

2:12audio device.

2:14And I do have to allow these devices if not then I will have problems with my

2:17audio and video.

2:19All right for now I'm just going to close that browser.

2:23You also have Microsoft Edge here if I try to call Zero Jackson.

2:29Let's see what happens.

2:31All right so very similar experience with a different browser.

2:34We have to allow Microsoft Teams to use our microphone and camera.

2:40But for now we'll close that window not interfere with this recording.

2:44And the final one I want to show you is Chrome.

2:47So once again if I go to video call.

2:51We are prompted once again to allow the use of the microphone and the camera in

2:57this browser that being from.

2:59Let's say that we're not getting the appropriate notifications that we are

3:04custom to getting.

3:08So here on the settings and notifications and activity.

3:11Make sure that wherever notification you are expecting to get is indeed enabled

3:15.

3:16But maybe you have the notification enabled but your status is to something

3:22like do not disturb.

3:25So here you wouldn't get those notifications based on the status that you

3:29currently in.

3:31Now you could be using Teams in one of several ways.

3:37One being the desktop application or maybe the web browser or your mobile

3:42device.

3:43So maybe we have a feature Microsoft Teams that doesn't work through the

3:49browser.

3:50So for troubleshooting purposes try the desktop.

3:53Here we're trying to eliminate if the browser is the issue.

3:58Maybe we have the reverse where the feature does work on the web version of

4:02Teams but not the desktop.

4:05Maybe we're running an outdated version of Teams on our desktop.

4:11So at that point I would update teams myself if I have permission to do so or

4:15ask my IT department to verify and run the latest version of Microsoft Teams

4:21and then try again.

4:22And finally I want to show you how we can collect client logs.

4:29Now Teams client logs are very detailed so that logs is really intended for IT

4:34support or when they work for Microsoft to troubleshoot an issue.

4:38So maybe we're collecting these logs because the Teams application is running

4:42terribly slow.

4:43Maybe we can't sign in successfully.

4:46Or maybe we have issues with audio and video.

4:48So here what I'm going to do is hit control all shift one.

4:54Now in the top left corner we see downloading web logs. So here the Microsoft

4:59Teams application is collecting data that you can later share with your IT

5:02department.

5:03And usually this does take a few minutes so we'll sit here and wait.

5:07So now what I've done is I go to my downloads folder right here.

5:14So now we can see the files that we can share with the IT department.

5:22So here a good tip is to reproduce the issue that you have in then collect the

5:27logs immediately thereafter.

5:29This will give you IT department along with Microsoft support the most accurate

5:33picture of what's happening in your scenario.

5:36So there we have it. We have some troubleshooting tips that you can use in the

5:39event that Microsoft Teams is not working.

5:41It's not working.

5:41.

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