Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is one of the most widely used communication and collaboration platforms in business environments. It is often used for instant messaging, virtual meetings, shared calendars, and document repositories. Microsoft Teams can be integrated with additional applications like Virto Calendar Overlay that help both individuals and enterprises to organize and manage daily tasks and processes. In this article, we will take a closer look at the best third-party calendars that extend the capabilities of the Microsoft Teams shared calendar. ...

Introduction Microsoft Exchange is an easy-to-use solution for businesses providing full server functionality, web access, Exchange shared calendar, and other features for productive corporate work. The product is available through the Outlook client and can be deployed on your own server. What are the advantages of Microsoft Exchange over traditional services? Well, there are many. The first is storage. Traditional mail normally provides around 2-5 GB of storage per mailbox. Microsoft Exchange’s storage, on the other hand, starts from 50 GB. This is a great advantage because all your information is stored on the server. That takes us to the second perk: when you make any change from any of your devices – such as adding an event to Microsoft Exchange calendar or marking an email as unread – it is automatically synchronized with the server, so you will always see the updated information on all devices. ...

Do you ever feel like everyone but you has a corporate Time-Turner like the ones from Rowling’s books? Does it ever seem like everyone else knows the secret of getting everything done all at once? It might seem that way, but in reality, there’s only one scientifically sound solution to getting things done – proper planning. And when you work in a team, you need to ensure adequate planning for the whole crew. ...

Overview VirtoSoftware is going to release a new update for Virto Kanban Board Pro App Microsoft Teams. We have changed the design and improved Kanban usability for mobile users. Now you can work with a full-featured Kanban Board for mobile devices. The application interface is fully adapted to mobile now. Virto Kanban Board integrates perfectly with Microsoft Teams. You can add the app to a Microsoft Teams channel as a separate tab. We have improved Kanban for Microsoft Teams: now, you can apply a dark theme to the Kanban Board added to your Microsoft Teams. ...

Calendar Overlay Pro by Virto offers fast and smooth integration with Microsoft Teams. Integrating Calendar Overlay Pro is vital for Microsoft Teams users as it ensures a convenient workflow: it speeds up event creation, as data no longer needs to be entered several times in different applications, and it removes the need to check multiple calendars to avoid overlaps when creating a meeting. This is why we always strive to improve the user experience and simplify the working process of our Microsoft Teams calendar app. ...

Calendar Overlay Pro for Office 365 and Microsoft Teams supports a crucial feature for any contemporary work calendar - recurring events. Nowadays, everyone has repeating events, such as weekly team meetings, sprint debriefings, and team-wide sync meetings, in their work schedule, so this Calendar Overlay Pro feature will make your planning a lot easier! You don’t need to manually and repeatedly add these recurring events. Instead, you can set up recurring events in a couple of clicks; there is a wide range of conditions for recurring events, and you can easily automate the creation of events according to these conditions. ...

With Virto Alerts App for SharePoint Online, you can add variable images and links to them to corporate notifications. Here is the use case. As you know, with the latest update, Virto Office 365 Alerts App supports complex links. This means that Alerts users now can add variable clickable elements to alerts and reminders. This is an especially valuable feature when we speak about images in alerts. Previously, you could add images to alerts as a constant visual element. Just a picture. Now the image changes automatically depending on the source SharePoint item. For example, you wish to alert about the newly added image, and the notification inserts this image to the email. Moreover, the image is clickable. Today we offer a simple use case of O365 Alerts with complex links. We also are going to send the alert to the Teams channel. Let’s start! ...

Office 365 Alerts App by VirtoSoftware now provides an incredible ability to add variable images and URLs to notifications. Today we’re telling how you can involve this new option in your business. Introduction Virto Office 365 Alerts App is your assistant for keeping your SharePoint team in the loop in a few clicks. You specify a trigger for an automatic alert, for example, when someone changes a SharePoint list item, and the chosen group of users (or a single user) receives the notification. The filling of an alert also goes from your head and O365 Alerts features provide you with almost unlimited capabilities. Add tables, change the design, use templates and follow the idea of a perfect notification system with our flexible solution. ...

You can add the Virto Resource Manager SPFx App to Microsoft Teams and use it as a separate tab. Here is the guide we’ve prepared. Please take a look! Microsoft Teams app currently has 270 million daily active users. Over 500,000 organizations use Microsoft Teams as their default messaging platform (Todd Bishop posted in Geekwire News article). That is why the VirtoSoftware team pays much attention to team users. We keep on adding more Virto SharePoint apps to be used in Microsoft Teams. Our customers are already using Virto Calendar Overlay and Virto Kanban Board apps in Teams as separate tabs. Now it’s the turn of Virto Resource Manager SPFx app. ...

Virto Kanban Board App for Office 365 and MS Teams supports using custom SharePoint list as a data source. See how you can choose and adapt a custom SharePoint list for the Kanban board. Quick Board and Custom List Virto Kanban Board app uses SharePoint list as a data source of the board. There are two ways to create a new board. The first one is a quick board. In this case, the SharePoint list is created automatically with all the fields required for the proper work of your Kanban Board. But there are many cases when you need a custom SharePoint list to create a new board. Or you’re using multiple lists and would like to make sure all of them Certainly, you can use a Task list that already contains all the required fields. But if your source list is not of that type, you still can use the Virto Kanban Board successfully. We’ll tell you how. ...