Let Teams notify you when a contact becomes available

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Have you ever found yourself glancing at the Microsoft Team window on your (second) screen, just to keep track whether a colleague or another contact becomes available, so you can start firing your question(s) at him or her? Guilty as charged over here!

Now, Microsoft Teams has a nice little feature added for this called “Notify when available”. It works like this:

In the Teams main window, click the 3 dotted menu on the contact that you wish to speak to as soon as possible and select “Notify when available”.

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The meeting follow response in Outlook explained

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Maybe you are familiar with the purple “tentative” button in Outlook with which you can respond to a meeting request. Personally I often wonder about the function of this button. The meeting organizer still doesn’t know whether you are attending the meeting or not.

When you are invited as an optional attendee and thus you are not mandatory, it could serve it’s function.

In the upcoming period, a new button called “follow” will be added as a new button. The goal of this button is to inform the organizer of the meeting that you will not attend, but that you will follow up on the meeting later. This is especially handy when you have Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your disposal because with “follow”, you get access to the meeting components like recorded video, notes, meeting chat and transcript. A number of options to follow up on the meeting later are:

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How to create an In-Person Event in Outlook

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This article marks the start of a new series of blog posts called “Quick Productivity Tips (QPT)”. These articles will be available in both English and Dutch to make it easier for visitors to understand and implement this quick productivity tips (QPT).

In this first article, let’s see how to create an in-person event in new Outlook and Outlook on the Web!

Microsoft recently introduced the possibility to set an event as an “in-person” event. This works in new Outlook and Outlook on the Web.

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