I have two Outlooks and neither of them are working
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I have to use Teams for work and it baffles me how unbelievably bad the interface is. Everything that should be easy and quick to do is made difficult and time consuming. Every time you try to do something simple you'd expect to be able to, it is blocked or limited in such a way that you can't do it and you have to find a workaround. It fights you in every way it can whenever you're trying to accomplish something. You also have to sign in with two factor authentication multiple times every day. I don't understand how this so-called "productivity" suite is even tolerated by private companies. It cripples productivity.
While I agree the UI needs some work, getting prompted for MFA multiple times a day for just using Teams chat and meetings is not normal.
It's not? Everyone at my company has the same experience.
Your IT has set up Conditional Access policies with a Sign-in Frequency set too low (it should really be labeled as a period, because it defines the time period that will occur before reauthentication is required). For regular users like all of you, forcing reauthentication that many times each day is excessive and just cruel on the users. They maybe thought it would make them super secure, but it only trains the users that MFA is an annoyance rather than an important security feature.
It’s a setting that can easily be changed, so make some noise and see if you can get some feedback passed through your org structure to IT.
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I've worked at different places that used Teams, and that thing with having to re- login regularly is certainly fault of whoever administers Teams within your organization.
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Yep. I sign in once when the app is opened (which happens automatically as I’m logged into the computer as my Entra ID) and then am never prompted again until I close and reopen Teams.
Something is misconfigured in the environment, or there is a security policy that is set way too high, or one is scoped incorrectly. It is definitely not the normal or expected user experience.
Teams has a lot of faults, but that one is on your org’s admins and security team. Hopefully for you it’s a mistake and not done intentionally.
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Just started at a place that uses teams. The window always says I have two unread messages. I don't.
Probably missed calls. It'll keep showing a notification bubble in both activity and calls until you bother clicking the missed call as if that makes any difference or sense to anyone or anything but the notification counter.
Or theyre reactions to a message
Yeah, those don't work well with Outlook. I get an e-mail from Microsoft telling me to login to the web version only to see that someone put a 👍 on my e-mail. It completely defies the purpose.
Microsoft really knows how to keep office workers occupied doing nothing at all.
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Imagine finding a log with something like "we couldn't stop shareholders, our planet is doomed. We will start with a new colony on the planet closer to sun, perhaps this time we will not destroy our home"
I had the same thought. Evidence of a long extinct and clearly human civilization.
Artemis II astronauts going around the Moon: "I have two Outlooks, neither of which works"
Astronauts during the first Mars mission: "I previously had two Teams versions, neither of which worked, and now there's apparently a third one, and it doesn't work either"
"Houston, what is 'New Teams Classic' and why is it asking me to log in three times in a row?"
Funny enough, he found out later he had three outlooks lol
I can sometimes hear Teams notification sound from neighbour's apartment, triggers me to check my phone almost every time.
Enabling sound notifs for teams is pathological self hating behavior
They added the teams call sound as a horn to forza horizon 6, I made a few people tab out of the game with it lol
Elon Musks bones.
No, wait, you said terrifying, not terrific. never mind.
Don't give him what he says his life goal is (die on Mars). It would be way more terrific if he died in a supercar crash (like the one he had in 2000 with Peter Thiel as passenger in a $1M McLaren F1, the fastest production car back then).
God, if only we.could have been so lucky. Imagine how the last 26 years would've been with them dead.
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I now know to which moment in time i go back to adjust the outcome, if the opportunity arises.
What if whatever killed him and is wearing his skin is just as evil and stupid, but is not a junky.
Or maybe you believe in the Great Filter hypothesis, and signs of life discovered on Mars implies that this filter may be ahead of humanity rather than behind it
The most impactful moment of our history: explorers on Mars discovered the remains of an ancient spacefaring civilization. In the decades that followed, these mysterious artifacts revealed startling new technologies, enabling travel to the furthest stars. The basis for this incredible technology was a force that controlled the very fabric of space and time. They called it the greatest discovery in human history. The civilizations of the galaxy call it
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If there was intelligent life on Mars in past there would presumably be lasting signs that we could discover.
Who knows what signs we might find in ice cores from the Martian South Pole.
If there was intelligent life on Mars in past there would presumably be lasting signs that we could discover.
Finding signs of technological development on Venus on the other hand would be interesting...
Even if this were the case though, life on Mars (or anywhere outside of Earth) would be a really cool discovery!
I saw a conspiracy theory that said we used to live on Mars but we polluted it so much that, to survive, we had to send a rocket with two children to the next planet, called Earth. Then everyone died.
The children's names were Adam and Eve.
thats stupid in so many ways. nevermind the mountain of evidence that we evolved on this planet, two people cannot found a stable population. their children would be fine, but after that they're speed running inbreeding. it would only take a few generations for all kinds of genetic problems to start coming up and they would only get worse.
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"Didn't you see my post in the channel?"
"Sweety, I don't know wtf is going on in this cluster fuck. Be thankful I even replied"
You need to update teams to join this meeting that starts in 1 minute.
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wtf even downvotes do you work in microsoft or what? or do we have "anything big tech is good" bots here
Bill Gates logged in under six different usernames to downvote it.
There is a novel "Microserfs" many years back and in it if I recall all the guys at MS drove Ford Taurus because at some point Gates drove one. So all the little serfs wanted to be like him.
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Static crackles in the astronaut’s helmet as he makes his way onto the red soil. A message pops up on his display. “Hey, got a sec for a quick teams call?”
That Tesla Melon Husk dumped in the space.
With Elons body in the space suit. The Elon that remained on earth is something... Else.
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Mars is doing the me gusta meme face.
Every time I hear someone ask to help out with Teams, it sounds to me like "Can you help me shove my fist further up my ass" ... Yes eeeh sure . . .
Elon Musk.
Bugs or organisme from earth.
It would means we have already contaminate this environment and we won't be able to tell if any discovered life form came from mars or from contamination.
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