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I often use Emojis in email subjects to signify certain things a warning ⚠️ or a bug 🐛
In Outlook search, why can’t I search for an emoji?
Curious… I’d love to know the technical reason, as I would have expected this to work without any additional effort.
Let’s add some emoji love to search.
I liked the idea of Outlook giving me time to do work without interruption. All these little appointments appeared in my calendar and I was going to focus and get work done.
Clearly I was dreaming. Does anyone successfully use the auto created appointments “Focus time”?
> Microsoft Viva Insights has scheduled your focus time in accordance with your focus plan and work week settings.
> To edit your settings, visit your settings page at Protect Time Settings.
In an Outlook appointment, when I decide to click this link, I expected to see a button “Delete” or “Unsubscribe”
When using this people don’t think of it as a “Plan”… I reckon they think of it as a recurring appointment.
So testing it out, I click “Get Started”…
I am just looking, I should be able to click “Cancel”… I did not know what “Leave Plan” was about.
Also popping up these questions should only happen after I have been using it for more than 24 hours.
Microsoft Bookings – www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/business/scheduling-and-booking-app
This looks to be a nice scheduling & bookings app.
It might work for prospects booking themselves for initial meetings.
I was hoping it might be a bit more powerful. We looked at it for some customer scenarios and discovered it does not support recurring appointments – an instant showstopper!
I guess an alternative to look at now is the Dynamics 365 Resource Scheduling… Anyone use that?
More on Tech Community – Microsoft Bookings.
For our customers we get their SharePoint site pointing to Teams and vice versa… I believe it is the right thing to do but the right emoji would cause this to be more UI obvious ✨
In SharePoint there is an issue with menu customization that blocks good UX. E.g. I want to have links to both the SharePoint portals and the right Teams in the menu.
Ideally we should be able to use SharePoint and Teams official icons, i.e.:
But there doesn’t seem to be any supported way to do so!
I assume it is a bad idea to inject HTML via a custom SPFX solution or some nasty CSS… It is better to stay within the framework and have easy upgrade.
In summary I am saying that emojis do not do the job every time (BTW I do love emojis). This is one example where emojis are not as good as images.
SharePoint is important to us. It is the intranet of almost all SSW’s clients. I am suggesting that SharePoint should not be making the job of putting images in a menu, hard. It should be simple.
The goal should be to make it the same as other webparts. I’m thinking of the ‘Quick Links’ Web Part. Please allow us to add a custom image or an icon to all of our menu items.
I think URLs matter and I prefer neat ones.
I’m experiencing a weird bug on our Intranet and cannot figure out why this is happening.
Everytime I click on one of the menu items the URL shows slightly differently.
We have several portals (Team Sites) linked from our Hub Navigation:
Every single link is setup using the short URL form – i.e. not linking directly to the aspx page.
However, sometimes/often/randomly, when clicking one of the menu items, the URL is somehow rewritten to https://sswcom.sharepoint.com/sites/XXX/SitePages/Home.aspx
Moreover, clicking the Site’s “home” tile (i.e. Site Logo) will almost always toggle – yes toggle – between the two URLs…
I have noticed that, before it flicks to the “long” form, there is a weird querystring parameter being added for a split second, and then the rewrite happens:
Hey Teams / SharePoint Team Product Owner,
I don’t think this UI is clear to users. I just did a quick poll and people that use this UI did not know about the 3 dots “…” (see red arrow)
Please change to a 3rd button that says “Manage” or “Manage Access”
It then brings open this …
Say you add user to a group… you should be able to see this change in the Azure AD Audit logs.
The Audit log details work great for users. For example, when you make a change to a user in AD and sync with Azure AD (using AAD Connect), you get great visibility of what was changed.
Sadly you can’t see who changed it.
When you make a change to a distribution group in AD (e.g. add a new member) and sync, there are no details at all
Suggestion: Please add the details of who changed what for both users and distribution groups in the Audit logs.
When filling in a form the user icon (aka Account Name) on the top right is missing.
It would be awesome if the Forms questionnaire showed who was signed in. They could copy the Forms responses which is really clear. So it would be awesome if they had the same green bar below:
There is inconsistency in the Person menus…
In this case the Office | Person menu should show ”Microsoft 365 E3”
And link off to https://portal.office.com/account/?ref=MeControl
Teams search is super important, and I hope this one is on Microsoft’s backlog.
I expect Teams search and SharePoint search to have consistent results. Do others?
Not finding stuff you have permissions too is super frustrating. So this one has always confused me…. Do you consider it a bug?
Watch this one:
I think Jean did a great explanation of the permissions problem.
This is really weird behaviour – fire up Fiddler and you can see what Teams is doing in the background.
Turns out that when you search in Teams before it shows you what you have access to, it weirdly adds a refining query to only show documents from a list of every group you are a member of…
When I remove that refining query, it works as expected:
So I would say this appears to be a deliberate decision rather than a bug, though I think it is important to be able to turn it off if you want to find stuff using Team’s search 😂
In fact I would turn it off by default, so it is consistent with SharePoint Search