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Can you expand on that my org switched to Teams during the Pandemic and it has basically transformed my workflow. I work as an Engineer (The non software type)

Can you expand on that my org switched to Teams during the Pandemic and it has basically transformed my workflow. I work as an Engineer (The non software type) so maybe my workflow might be different form Software people but Teams has basically managed to almost completely displace email, phone calls, sharepoint and a lot of in person meetings. Things like sharing documents between people working on a project together. We used to use combination of email, one drive and sharepoint document libraries. Teams streamlined this immensely with it's built in groups it is really easy to create a new group for each project and it stores all the documents, chat messages, meetings etc all in one place and it's all archived and searchable. Even stuff like screen sharing and screen recording (so people can catch up on meetings they missed) work really well - we used to have to use Skype for bussiness to do this and it was not great at it. I'm not a Microsoft fan but they really nailed Teams in my opinion I'm surprised to hear people are negative about it.

tyoma 4y ago
Teams may work well if you are fully in the Microsoft ecosystem and have a dedicated enterprise level IT organization. That is not the kind of place I work. Sometimes I have to use Teams for meetings and it is incredibly frustrating. First, it makes me sign in to an account. Then, it is not sure which account to use since we have a corp account and I did the sin of buying office365 with my work email. Eventually I reset one or more passwords via its login flow and it lets me in (just using the password does not work). On the call, background blur is not usable from the menus or UI, but a StackOverflow post saved me: the keyboard shortcut still enables it. Also, Teams insists on always starting at startup and I can’t make it go away.
- bigger_cheese 4y ago
  Fair enough, you're right I'm in an Enterprise type organization with dedicated IT. Teams starts up logged in when I boot up my laptop (I sign into it on my phone via my work email address). It "just works" for me but IT has probably done a lot of black magic in the background to make it happen. Azure ML studio which is another Microsoft product I use on rare occasions I have issues with there is some type of 2FA setting my org has enabled and usually takes multiple attempts (text messages) before it authorizes me. I frequently have to reauthenticate during the day which also annoys me.
clhodapp 4y ago
A lot of folks on here don't live in a Microsoft-first world (I'll include myself in this). Teams really isn't enabling anything we weren't already doing pretty smoothly with some combination of Slack, Zoom, Google Meet, etc. Add onto that a few legitimate bugs/design flaws, a natural preference for the familiar solution, and just a sprinkle of anti-Microsoft bias and you have a recipe for the perception that Teams is awful.

tyoma 4y ago

Teams may work well if you are fully in the Microsoft ecosystem and have a dedicated enterprise level IT organization. That is not the kind of place I work. Sometimes I have to use Teams for meetings and it is incredibly frustrating. First, it makes me sign in to an account. Then, it is not sure which account to use since we have a corp account and I did the sin of buying office365 with my work email. Eventually I reset one or more passwords via its login flow and it lets me in (just using the password does not work). On the call, background blur is not usable from the menus or UI, but a StackOverflow post saved me: the keyboard shortcut still enables it. Also, Teams insists on always starting at startup and I can’t make it go away.

bigger_cheese 4y ago
Fair enough, you're right I'm in an Enterprise type organization with dedicated IT. Teams starts up logged in when I boot up my laptop (I sign into it on my phone via my work email address). It "just works" for me but IT has probably done a lot of black magic in the background to make it happen. Azure ML studio which is another Microsoft product I use on rare occasions I have issues with there is some type of 2FA setting my org has enabled and usually takes multiple attempts (text messages) before it authorizes me. I frequently have to reauthenticate during the day which also annoys me.

clhodapp 4y ago

A lot of folks on here don't live in a Microsoft-first world (I'll include myself in this). Teams really isn't enabling anything we weren't already doing pretty smoothly with some combination of Slack, Zoom, Google Meet, etc. Add onto that a few legitimate bugs/design flaws, a natural preference for the familiar solution, and just a sprinkle of anti-Microsoft bias and you have a recipe for the perception that Teams is awful.