Microsoft Teams – Work remotely without feeling remote

Good luck with that. When I tried using Teams in my business we had almost every feature break regularly. The calendar wouldn't load, messages either didn't send or did send but weren't received timeously, the mobile app wouldn't update anything, we frequently had the cannot sync error along the bottom etc. This was on everyone's devices, with 365 E3 subscriptions.

MS support was amazingly prompt and helpful, but in the end it was far too time-consuming and I had to move us on.
 
We been using this and it works pretty well for collaboration. Only issue with working remotely is it's more difficult to conduct JADs - but this applies to any remote collaboration tool.

/queue MS hate
 
Bryn said:
Good luck with that. When I tried using Teams in my business we had almost every feature break regularly. The calendar wouldn't load, messages either didn't send or did send but weren't received timeously, the mobile app wouldn't update anything, we frequently had the cannot sync error along the bottom etc. This was on everyone's devices, with 365 E3 subscriptions.

MS support was amazingly prompt and helpful, but in the end it was far too time-consuming and I had to move us on.
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This must have been quite a while ago....

Teams has come on in leaps and bounds over the last while...

Happily using it for remote work at the moment, and the mobile app is pretty good as well.
 
ToxicBunny said:
This must have been quite a while ago....

Teams has come on in leaps and bounds over the last while...

Happily using it for remote work at the moment, and the mobile app is pretty good as well.
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Not that long ago. Stopped using it towards the end of last year after a woefully unsuccessful 2-3 month attempt. Switched to Twist around November I think.
 
Bryn said:
Not that long ago. Stopped using it towards the end of last year after a woefully unsuccessful 2-3 month attempt. Switched to Twist around November I think.
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Very strange.... Been using it pretty successfully for way longer than that...

But each to their own, you found a toolset that works for your use case which is good...
 
Bryn said:
Good luck with that. When I tried using Teams in my business we had almost every feature break regularly. The calendar wouldn't load, messages either didn't send or did send but weren't received timeously, the mobile app wouldn't update anything, we frequently had the cannot sync error along the bottom etc. This was on everyone's devices, with 365 E3 subscriptions.

MS support was amazingly prompt and helpful, but in the end it was far too time-consuming and I had to move us on.
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Now you use?
 
I also use it, but it has a lot of flaws that you discover down the line which are not immediately apparent when you start using it. Really is annoying!
 
Most of the international people I am in contact with use Zoom. They even calling this generation, "zoomers".
 
We're using teams at the moment. Used to be Skype for Business, then the company went on to a 3cx pabx system and said use that but the chat features are terrible so trying out teams amongst the devs.
 
Kosmik said:
We're using teams at the moment. Used to be Skype for Business, then the company went on to a 3cx pabx system and said use that but the chat features are terrible so trying out teams amongst the devs.
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Teams chat is pretty decent, the channels are good and the video conferencing/screen share etc is pretty decent as well...

Its a great way to collaborate on things when remote.
 
Bryn said:
Good luck with that. When I tried using Teams in my business we had almost every feature break regularly. The calendar wouldn't load, messages either didn't send or did send but weren't received timeously, the mobile app wouldn't update anything, we frequently had the cannot sync error along the bottom etc. This was on everyone's devices, with 365 E3 subscriptions.

MS support was amazingly prompt and helpful, but in the end it was far too time-consuming and I had to move us on.
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I've noticed some sync errors in MSNote but not in Teams yet. Our dept. has been slowly getting on board with MS Teams more and more though and honestly can't say we have noticed many issues
 
ToxicBunny said:
Teams chat is pretty decent, the channels are good and the video conferencing/screen share etc is pretty decent as well...

Its a great way to collaborate on things when remote.
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Thing is, I think Dev teams are the easiest to get working remotely, folks are pretty much islands anyway besides the discussions and chats and that can be done via text or call.
 
Kosmik said:
Thing is, I think Dev teams are the easiest to get working remotely, folks are pretty much islands anyway besides the discussions and chats and that can be done via text or call.
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Yeah... the persistent chat aspect though is where I see the biggest value for teams working remotely....

Even Ops teams can get more efficient and streamlined using things like Teams in my opinion.
 
Bryn said:
Good luck with that. When I tried using Teams in my business we had almost every feature break regularly. The calendar wouldn't load, messages either didn't send or did send but weren't received timeously, the mobile app wouldn't update anything, we frequently had the cannot sync error along the bottom etc. This was on everyone's devices, with 365 E3 subscriptions.

MS support was amazingly prompt and helpful, but in the end it was far too time-consuming and I had to move us on.
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Teams decided that the channel dedicated to our main product doesn't need any sort of updates. Every other channel worked fine. That lasted about a day.
 
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