Can’t wait! Upload your custom Image in Microsoft Teams

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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft confirmed with an update to the original Office 365 notification (MC208577) that they will allow Teams users to upload their own custom background images in May 2020. However, if you can’t wait, you can upload your own images today.

On the PC you are using, go to; %AppData%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads folder and you should be able to select those images for a meeting background.

Upload custom image for Microsoft Teams

I have uploaded large high-fidelity JPEG photos to this folder and been able to use them as a background, but it seems like resizing the background to 1 MB or thereabouts is a good idea. Apart from deleting the image file from the folder, there’s no way to remove it from a PC after it’s uploaded. If you use Teams on several devices, you’ll also find that images don’t roam across devices. You must upload and maintain images on each device.

On Macs, the images should be copied to:
/users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Backgrounds/Uploads

While Camera is on, change your background in MS Teams

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Microsoft Teams

Easy and straight forward … here is a screen of where to do that… yes notice you choose from these choices … having custom picture from your own computer or whatsoever is not yet…. but as of now here we have some professional and fun background pictures 🙂

Presence in Outlook & Workaround

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Microsoft Teams

If you uninstall the Skype for Business client after you move a user to Teams Only mode, presence stops working in Outlook and other Office apps.

Presence works fine in Teams.

Workaround: To see presence in Outlook (and other Office apps), Skype for Business must be installed, even if you’re running Teams in Teams Only mode.

Microsoft is aware of this problem and is working on a fix.

 

SharePoint 2010 Extended Support End Date

The date is: 13 of October 2020 .. so a year from now I’d say.

Please check Microsoft Product Cycle from this link, Here

And you can search for whatever Microsoft Products to see the end supported date.

Note that If you still have SharePoint 2010 Farm, start planning for Migration and honestly speaking just go to SharePoint 2019. and use the new Modern Experience; in which I will write about in a new post.

Unfortunately no direct migration, you still have to go to SP2013 then 2016 and finally 2019.

You will see Servers for each farm, you can use Azure VMs temp for migration that will help you to reduce Servers cost unless you have the resources on-premises.

Also I will write how to plan for your migration.

Hope that helps.

When to backup Content DB using SQL backup and when to backup site collection using PowerShell

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Backup, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2019

We use Backup Content DB using SQL back up most likely for Migrations Option, meaning you are migrating from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint 2019.

in that case, to migrate we use the command Mount-SPContentDatabase

So most likely this is used for migrations.

But if you use the Backup-SPSite option using PowerShell, then you may be moving your site collection in the same Farm from one web application to another and you can definitely move it from one Farm to another but within the same SharePoint Version, so this is not migration.

So the what do you want to do is …. what you will use..

Hope that helps understand things right.

7 July, I will be speaking in a Webinar held by Datapolis

Event Details

Time: July 7, 2015 from 4pm to 5pm
Location: Online event
Website or Map:http://www.datapolis.com/holi…
Event Type: webinar
Organized By: Maciej Józefowicz

 

Event Description

Join the webinar by Datapolis and Mai Omar Desouki.

Everyone needs a time off! However in the summer season there can be a hassle to get your holidays approved. You send a request to your manager and do not know what happens next. Managers also have tough days because they often do not have full view on who’s on vacation and if they have enough people working. How to solve that?

Join us July 7, 10am EST (4pm CET) for the answer! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

 

Agenda In this webinar by Mai Omar Desouki, Senior SharePoint Consultant at Vodafone Egypt and founder of Dubai SharePoint User Group we will show you how make an easy and efficient holiday approval workflow that is a must-have for every company. We will use SharePoint Designer to build a workflow that keeps employees in loop, gives insights to managers and validates users’ balance of their free days- so that everyone could enjoy their holiday! We will work on on-prem SharePoint 2013 as a development environment and then we will deploy the workflow online.

SharePoint 2013 Course – DEV & ADV DEV

Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Core Solutions

Course:	20488B
Length:	5 Days
Starting::	Saturdays May 30, 2015
Language(s):	English
Audience(s):	Developers
Level:	300
Technology:	Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
Type:	Course
Delivery Method:	Instructor-led (classroom)

Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions

Course:	20489B
Length:	5 Days
Starting::	Saturdays July 11, 2015
Language(s):	English
Audience(s):	Developers
Level:	300
Technology:	Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
Type:	Course
Delivery Method:	Instructor-led (classroom)

 

 

I will be representing 2 sessions in SPBiz Conference

I am glad to announce I will representing 2 impressive sessions in SPBiz Conference.

Find below, my 2 sessions;

Read more here	Read more here

 

SPBiz Conference is 2 days, 17 & 18 June, it’s full of SharePoint Global Expert Speakers with many interesting sessions.

Day 1 Agenda: http://www.spbizconf.com/sessions/agenda-wednesday-17th-june/

Day 2 Agenda: http://www.spbizconf.com/sessions/agenda-thursday-18th-june/

The times are displayed below each session, but when you click the “+” (Add to Calendar) it should convert to local time.

Don’t miss it. You may register here; https://spbiz.conferencehosts.com/registration.aspx

My Wish List for SharePoint 2016!

Hi Microsoft,

Kindly, we have some wish list, we wish it would be available in SharePoint 2016, at least some of it..

1. Apps; when we insert apps as App Part, its basically inserted in iFrame! We really need a better way.
2. MS, I hope you could include the Office Web App Server in SharePoint Server just like you did in FAST Search Server.
3. We need a UI for Tenancy configuration,    
4. We need a UI for Property Bags in Central Administration, it’s actually painful in PS.
5. I don’t know why the Search Topology was removed in SP 2013, it was available with UI in SP 2010, I’d recommend we have a UI for Search Topology. Although I know there is PS to do so but there was already a UI. I understand the Search Topology changed heavily, which requires more work in its UI.
6. Some stuff to complete its configuration, we have to write PS, I am okay, I love PS but why not have a UI for it; these are:
   1. The Workflow Manager – Register-SPWorkflowService.
   2. The Apps subscription required service application to be running although in UI; it doesn’t exists.
   3. The Restore-SPSite has no UI, although the Backup-SPSite has a UI.
   4. The Import-SPWeb has no UI, although the Export-SPWeb has a UI.
7. The Translation Service Application, everyone saw it, we thought initially, no code needed but in order to use it, we have to write some code, why not make it easier.
8. Device Channels, and adding the user agent, If just the user updated or upgrade his/her device, he lost the master page we did for his/her agent, it’s a very static thing and not dynamic at all; why not add screen margins instead or plus the user agent to change his/her master page based on the dimensions, I know this can be done from JS or CSS, but we have already a UI, Device Channels where we add the user agent, I hope we can add as well the screen dimensions; iPad, iPhone, Android, Tables/Phone.. and so on.
9. We really need to have a field type “Multiple Browse/Upload”; a field where user can upload multiple images/docs from wherever, what we have now, is a site column where we can browse but max is one file; although this exists only in site columns and not when creating column in lists/libraries, to me is fine but to End User, he hates me when I show him how J .. lots of steps.
10. We need a way to restrict sandbox on one web application and not on the other one on the same server! We did another server just to stop the Sandbox Solutions on one web application; even the Resource Points effects all web applications, we may need to make each web application with different Sandbox Resource Points. I know it is deprecated so no more enhancement here but just saying my wish list.

This is what I can think of right now, I may add to this list more later.

SPSCairo – Speaker’s Slides now available

There you go J

Please check the speaker’s slides as requested.