Teams ♥️ Loop app – Vesa Nopanen – Future Work today

Listed here are couple of tips, I believed can be fascinating to share. Regardless of it feels that Copilot is getting all updates, it’s not so. Microsoft Groups, Loop, Whiteboard, and different apps will not be overlooked. When you haven’t seen these earlier than, I hope this text is helpful and can assist. You probably have: congrats on using them!

1. Loop application within Microsoft Teams
   1. Open Loop application in Teams in a new window
2. Where are my Teams notifications?
3. Whiteboard update

Do you know which you could open the Loop software inside Microsoft Groups? Simply go to … dots and seek for Microsoft Loop.

You’ll be able to then open the Loop app inside Groups. This works for each net and desktop. And you may see the Loop then on the left rail.

We’re not going to cease there. Since we have now the Loop software open in Groups, we must always pin it to the left navigation with the best click on on prime of left navigation Loop icon.

This software has all options than opening & putting in Loop software from the net https://loop.cloud.microsoft/. As a substitute you’re utilizing Loop straight from inside Groups. It will depend on your choice the way you wish to entry the Loop app: net browser put in software might be made to auto-start while you log in to your Home windows, whereas utilizing from Groups could be very easy and don’t have to fret about totally different person accounts ( normally a advisor’s drawback when you could have a number of accounts, not a standard data employee’s).

Open Loop software in Groups in a brand new window

This characteristic has been in Groups Desktop apps for fairly a while. As you possibly can see from the screenshot above (and beneath), while you proper click on an software in Groups you possibly can select to open it in a brand new window.

This open in new window doesn’t apply simply to Loop app – you are able to do that to many functions and Groups content material. You’ll be able to “pop-out” a channel, group or assembly dialog(chat), assembly share, and even Groups Exercise, Chats, Calendar and so on.

This manner you possibly can make the most of Loop app in a separate window and carry on utilizing Groups as you want.

And sure, you possibly can even change to a different tenant or account.

And similar to usually, you possibly can change between Groups home windows from the Home windows taskbar or when utilizing Alt+Tab.

I feel this makes Loop app very simple to make use of – proper kind inside Groups Desktop!

You could have been questioning what occurred to your Groups notifications. Now we have seen them by our profile image on top-right nook for years and years, however now notifications has a brand new dwelling at backside left!

Clicking on the person-figure opens your notifications.

The brand new approach makes it open to notification actions rapidly – simply clicking on the Unread chat messages takes me to these instantly: the proper chat group opens straight into a brand new window, so my Groups desktop will not be switching a tenant.

It is a very helpful replace to Groups, however I’m positive it has precipitated some confusion “The place are my notifications”..

Sure, I did point out Whiteboard is getting updates. After the summer season 2026 Whiteboards created in Groups channels will now be saved in SharePoint 🙂

The change will occur ( estimate) September 2026. This info was already shared to directors in Message Heart MC1253753.

At the moment while you use Whiteboard app on a staff channel, any Whiteboards created there shall be saved in creator’s OneDrive. After this modification , in September 2026, Whiteboards shall be created within the staff channel’s SharePoint web site.

That is what is going to occur:

• Whiteboards created from a Groups Channel tab shall be saved within the channel’s SharePoint web site.
• All channel members could have constant entry based mostly on channel permissions.
• Current Microsoft 365 compliance and safety insurance policies proceed to use.
• Whiteboards shall be discoverable from the Whiteboard board picker.
• The change is enabled by default.

Revealed by Vesa Nopanen

Vesa “Vesku” Nopanen, Principal Marketing consultant and Microsoft MVP (Microsoft 365 and Azure AI Foundry) engaged on Future Work at Sulava MEA.

I work, weblog and discuss Future Work : AI, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Loop, Azure, and different companies & platforms within the cloud connecting digital and bodily and other people collectively.

I’ve 30 years of expertise in IT enterprise on a number of industries, domains, and roles.
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