MS Teams Mission Control Center
We provide meeting/webinar support for a major client using MS Teams. Highlighting participants via "Spotlight" in large meetings is quite cumbersome, especially during Q&A sessions, and it's relatively time-consuming and causes awkward pauses. Isn't there a way to improve this? Perhaps an external control page? Furthermore, it would be very helpful to be able to switch seamlessly to different cameras and videos without having to go through OBS or Vmix, or connect a hardware video mixer. Are there any solutions on the market that don't require multiple people to manage a meeting with high demands? If not, we will need to develop this ourselves 😉.
Require approval from IT to join a Team and/or Shared Channels
My company has two sides to its business. Both sides are under the same Microsoft 365 tenant. They can be called Group A and Group B. Group A should not be able to add those from Group B into teams and channels on their own. Likewise, Group B should not be able to add those from Group A. If either side wants to add the other to a team or channels, they should have to get approval from IT, with IT making the additions to the team or channel. We would rather not have this just done over emails. This has to be done while still allowing members of Group A and members of Group B the ability to have 1 on 1 and group chats. Does anyone have any suggestion how to do this?
More control with Teams chat notifications (Duration, marking as Read)
Currently in Teams it shows you if you have unread chats in your taskbar notification icon (small red bell). But to mark that notification as read you have to open up Teams and then highlight the conversation to mark it as 'Read'. Does anyone know if there is a way, or given thought to building a way, to have more control over the notification pop-up that would allow you to control how long the notification displays when a new chat is received and to also add a button that would allow you to mark the chat as read rather than opening the entire Teams application? I'm not seeing this ability in either the "Teams built-in" or "Windows" notification styles.' Thank you for your consideration! Chris
Chat History Not Visible for New Participant
I conducted a test where a new participant was added to an ongoing chat. The participant is successfully added to the chat but cannot see the chat history. However, the participant remains in the chat after the conversation ends. Is there a central-level setting that prevents the chat from including historical messages and always creates a new chat for added participants?
Microsoft Teams – “You need a paid subscription to use Microsoft Teams”
Hi everyone, I’m currently unable to sign in to Microsoft Teams using my work account. When I launch the Teams desktop app, I receive the following message: "You need a paid subscription to use Microsoft Teams. To continue using Teams, you’ll need a license. You’re currently signed in as [my account]. Please click Request License to ask your admin for access or sign in with a different account." However, according to our admin, a Microsoft Teams Premium license (or equivalent Microsoft 365 license) has already been assigned to my account. I can also see Teams listed under My Apps in the Microsoft 365 portal. I have tried the following steps: Signed out and signed back in Tried Teams web app (teams.microsoft.com) in an InPrivate or Incognito browser Cleared Teams cache from %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams Reinstalled the Teams desktop client Unfortunately, the same message still appears. Could someone please advise: Is this a known sync or license propagation issue? Should the admin reassign the license or refresh it from the Microsoft 365 Admin Center? Are there any other steps to force Teams license validation? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, SavinduReporting the Use of Emojis in Teams Reactions
Reporting the Use of Emojis in Teams ReactionsThis article explains how to use PowerShell to extract audit data to analyze the use of emojis as Teams reactions to chat and channel messages. This is not an exercise that leads to any great business value, but it’s a good way to show the sometimes surprising data that can be extracted from audit records. https://office365itpros.com/2025/11/07/teams-reactions-emojis/
