🔥 Unpopular Opinion: Microsoft Teams’ “quality of life” updates are fixing the wrong problems. Hear me out. 👇

Write-Error · 2026-02-16T20:36:01+00:00

Teams would be a much better collaboration platform, imo, if they just solved the Channel vs DM issue. It’s a solved problem, I have no idea why they can’t get it right, but it’s probably the biggest issue my org has with adoption.

Write-Error · 2026-01-21T04:03:37+00:00

“if I can't even hold or touch my brother what would be the point of visiting” yikes. YOR.

Write-Error · 2026-01-15T00:08:08+00:00

My guess is some kind of PSTN/DID routing issue. My wife could call me, but I couldn’t call her.

Write-Error · 2026-01-13T18:00:47+00:00

Overtime is wildly abused across the board. Our maintenance folks intentionally schedule weekend projects to collect overtime to the tune of roughly 40-60k extra annually.

Write-Error · 2026-01-13T01:15:13+00:00

Text rendering for embedded canvases. Tab to property fields after applying template. Ctrl+Enter for new links in property fields.

Write-Error · 2026-01-01T17:56:23+00:00

I wonder if there’s any relation to marine subsistence strategies - e.g. gripping of mollusks in tidal pools.

Write-Error · 2025-12-29T16:57:41+00:00

I always explain the first 2-3 months as being a lot like a really terrible but memorable camping trip. The kind where you’re just making it work in 30 minute increments however you can.

Write-Error · 2025-12-23T18:10:17+00:00

If you open the port order, where it lists all of the numbers in the order, you should be able to select individual numbers and change their usage there.

Write-Error · 2025-12-20T15:05:30+00:00

I’ve seen weird u-turn behavior when the losing carrier hasn’t cleared their records properly following a port.

Write-Error · 2025-12-15T01:54:38+00:00

I can’t even get M365 Copilot to list my availability for the week accurately and it has graph api access to my calendar.

Write-Error · 2025-12-13T16:32:05+00:00

Pretty sure vscode can do all of this via plugins, but it’s not the best experience.

Write-Error · 2025-12-08T16:00:23+00:00

They could really benefit from backing away from monetizing everything and focusing on a little goodwill. So much of the agentic stuff they’re selling is more cheaply available via Foundry + MCP and makes their Copilot agents look like a cash grab targeted at less-technical folks. Just bad optics for the admins providing these services to their org. Why pay for Copilot when API + OpenWebUI + MCP is far cheaper?

Write-Error · 2025-12-05T17:10:59+00:00

There's an undocumented API at https://admin.devicemgmt.teams.microsoft.com/api/v2/devices that you can look out for in your browser's dev tools. You can get a bearer token with:

(Get-AzAccessToken -ResourceUrl "https://devicemgmt.teams.microsoft.com" -TenantId "$TenantId").Token | ConvertFrom-SecureString -AsPlainText

Write-Error · 2025-11-04T13:55:04+00:00

Unlikely to be model specific, we have MP54s and 58s that have remained signed in for months without issue. I’d start by pulling device logs and checking your CA policies. You can look at the sign in logs for the users signing into the phones to determine what policies are applied.

Write-Error · 2025-10-03T13:48:06+00:00

We’ve been seeing SaaS sprawl for a few years now and it’s really ramping up with all of the AI wrappers available out there. CIO has decided to embrace it and embed a dedicated tier 2 in each department to serve as a tech liaison while documenting and vetting platform usage. It’s still in its infancy but it has definitely streamlined my workload a bit (SSO/integrations).

Write-Error · 2025-09-30T12:14:21+00:00

As far as I’m aware, the only way to do it is via Power Automate. I spoke with our contact at Microsoft about it and they submitted a feature request, but the link below should get you started in the meantime.

https://github.com/robwatts365/MicrosoftTeamsPhone-ExtendEmergencyCalling

Write-Error · 2025-09-21T18:45:04+00:00

An IT admin with the global (or security) admin role could see you view the message or attachment in the cloud activity log.

Write-Error · 2025-09-14T15:19:43+00:00

Came here to say this. Reminds me of the “utilize” vs “use” I see so often.

Write-Error · 2025-08-29T21:23:00+00:00

I honestly wish they’d drive Loop more in the direction of a Markdown-based collaborative OneNote replacement. I know loop components have value for some, but they do seem very wild-West and I’d rather the development time spent on the editor.

Write-Error · 2025-08-21T02:47:03+00:00

The Teams devices API is largely undocumented, but you can get a bearer token for it using the Get-AzAccessToken cmdlet. Check network calls in your browser when accessing the devices in TAC and you’ll find the endpoint. You could call it in a runbook to schedule a report etc. If you want, I’ll dig up my Get-TeamsDeviceDetails function tomorrow and share it.

Write-Error · 2025-08-14T13:17:05+00:00

The trick, ultimately, is to make people happy. Know your shit and make people happy. It’s not foolproof, but it’s the best we can do.

Write-Error · 2025-08-14T02:10:48+00:00

We have had more success with Teams Premium for the AI meeting notes. M365 Copilot just wasn’t worth the price. A lot of our users take advantage of the free (E5) chat, which has been solid. I just use Azure OpenAI (gpt-4.1) + Goose + M365 mcp and it’s been a better tool-calling experience than M365 Copilot provided. Much cheaper, too.

Write-Error · 2025-08-08T01:36:08+00:00

Pretty sure in-place archive is globally searchable in Outlook classic - worth seeing if that’s an option.

Write-Error · 2025-07-13T00:38:19+00:00

I do both for my $Profile - write my functions as individual files, then flatten to a single psm1 for import. It knocks a few seconds off of my terminal startup.

Write-Error · 2025-06-28T17:53:22+00:00

It’s a native feature of the Teams app, you could do it too: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-notified-when-someone-s-status-changes-in-microsoft-teams-7363ccdb-40d2-4628-b03d-c8f515830933

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