Help me find a SharePoint List

By Warwick Leahy in SharePoint Lists 0 Comment

See the below screenshot – this is the default on the lists app. It shows all lists that I have permissions for and have added as a favourite list.  Although it says ‘Home’ it shows not only lists in the ‘Home’ site but also any other lists that I have access to.  These lists are not in the ‘Home’ site but are in other sites.  

If I don’t know what the name of the list is that I am looking for how do I find it?

Figure: All lists shown that I have access to

It would be better if I could see the hub-site navigation from the normal SharePoint site. That way I could just navigate to the SysAdmins site and see the lists in that site, or the Designers and see those lists.  That would give more context.

Figure: Dropdown from regular hub-site navigation

Help me to share a whiteboard to just 2 people

By Warwick Leahy in Microsoft Whiteboard 0 Comment

In Teams when in video chat with only 1 other person and click Share Content | (there is no Whiteboard app)

❌ Figure: Bad Example – With only 1 other person in the chat there is no whiteboard

When I add someone else to the call I can see the whiteboard app. 

✅ Figure: Good Example – With 2 or more people in a video chat Whiteboard is there

This is weird and wastes a lot of time debugging why this feature comes and goes.  The button should always be there and if Microsoft don’t want to enable it for 2 people for some reason pop a message that says “Whiteboard is for 3 or more users”.

Help me to show version history in Desktop/Web versions of Office

By Warwick Leahy in Office 0 Comment

In SharePoint it shows the file history fine.  But the history doesn’t completely appear in the Desktop/Web versions of Office.

We find ourselves looking at version history when debugging SharePoint stuff for clients, and it is useful.
Until now we had never gone to Word to view the history – so to find out it does not work is concerning 🔥

In SharePoint we see:

✅ Figure: Good Example – In SharePoint the file history is complete

In Web version of Word we see:

❌ Figure: Bad Example – Web version of Word shows disabled AD users as “Unknown”

In Desktop versions of Word we see (Note we see more file history in the desktop version too):

❌ Figure: Bad Example – The Desktop version of Word shows old users as “Unknown”

Help me make sense of Outlook Search

By Adam Cogan in Outlook 0 Comment

If I search “Current Folder” and there are no items…. Then I don’t want to see items.

You are welcome to show a link “Do you want to see items from other folders?”

Please change this terrible default behaviour. 🔥 

Figure: With the new changes it looks like there are items in my “Current Folder”

Allow me to open in desktop app

By Warwick Leahy in Teams 0 Comment

When creating a new document directly in Microsoft Teams, Teams always opens the web version of the Office app that you are asking for (e.g. Word).

Please add a checkbox for Teams for open in Desktop App instead.

Figure: Open in Desktop App checkbox here

Note: It even ignores the setting in Teams to always open in the Desktop app:

Figure: Teams ignores its own setting “Open in Desktop App” when creating a new file

Help me find the Team’s email address on the UI (not the channel’s)

By Chris Schultz in Teams 0 Comment

When you create a Microsoft Team, the Team has an email address associated with it. However, there is no way to see this email address from within Teams.

Note: There are Channel email addresses that you can view, but these are different.

Microsoft Teams should show the Team email address on the UI – like it does in Outlook.

Figure: Team Channels have an email address that can be viewed from Teams ✔️
Figure: Missing – The Team also have an email address, but this cannot be seen ❌
Figure: This is useful – you can see the Team email address in Outlook | Left nav | Groups | Team name