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Actual signs of a stroke for those who want to or should know: the acronym is FAST- face, arm, speech, time to call 911.
Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
Onedrive is a nightmare.
Once made the mistake of keeping some personal photos in the ‘pictures’ directory of my own laptop.
Then started a course at uni, installed the free student version of MS365 or whatever it’s called, including onedrive.
Next thing i know, I get a popup notification displaying the ‘best of’ my private photos on screen, while I’m showing colleagues something on my laptop!
They deleted pics I saved. I have everything in my own drives and shut one drive out of my computer. POS
I’ve said that, and meant it, but it was when Teams first came out. At the time, it was just a bare-bones Slack clone with the alternative being the godawful Skype for Business. lol.
All they had to do was just stop making it worse from there.
Microsoft: hold my beer!
I know, right? Ballmer was batshit crazy but at least you could squint your eyes and his decisions kind-of made sense (e.g. Windows 8 was a turd, but you could at least see what he was trying to do). Nadella has just shoved in cloud and now AI bullshit since he took over, and no thanks.
So uh, what’s everyone using these days to call internationally to cell phones or company landlines? Because teams looks like they’ve cut all that functionality for me, unless I’m just not understanding their dumbass interface.
We never had the ability to make outside calls from teams, only teams to teams calls. We went from physical phones on desks to Cisco soft phone since lockdown.
I can call a phone number from Teams?
If you are in a meeting just click “Invite People” and type a phone number - it will call them. We have the “Team for Business”. Whatever that means.
They will almost assuredly not answer because its an 800 Number, and requires them to press [n] to join call. But you can do it.
If you don’t have a meeting just make one with only you - Which is coincidentally a great way to fill a calendar, and look busy to your coworkers. They ignore Busy status. When I’m in a “meeting”, it doesn’t even ring when they bother me.
We have teams for business but I would bet the call out feature is blocked. We started using zoom for management level meetings because a r supervisor who was on vacation needed to be included. So either management doesn’t know about the call out feature (entirely likely) or our IT blocks it.
Now I’m curious, maybe I’ll try calling my cell phone on Monday to see if it works or not.
I think that might be a licensing issue. The call out feature is not included in the base Teams licence. You’ll need an audio conferencing for Teams licence (included in E5) on the account of the guy who created the meeting to have the call out feature enabled.
Well I’m guessing then that we don’t have that licensing.
*update - I finally got a chance to try calling out while on a teams call, I can dial but there’s no call button and nothing happens when I hit enter. Confirmed, we do not have the call out feature…at least at my level and below don’t have it, can’t speak for management.
Got it. So basically micro$hit shut down Skype with nothing to replace it.
Yep, but don’t worry I’m sure they’re busy vibe coding an update to teams to allow outside calls once you sign up for a phone subscription.
Confirmed hilarious by an actual stroke victim.
lol! You had a stroke!?
No, my wife. I ran it by her and got a hearty laugh.
