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Instructions for controlling Microsoft Teams notifications, including general preferences such as sounds and previews, chat and channel notification settings, muting a specific chat, managing notifications for a channel, and reducing noise from less active channels. Applies to Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff using Teams on Windows, macOS, or the web.

Explains how to download and install the Microsoft Teams desktop app on a personal or home computer running macOS or Windows 11. Applies to Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students installing Teams on a computer that is not Bowdoin-issued.

Explains how to install the Microsoft Teams desktop app on a Bowdoin-issued computer, using Self Service on macOS or verifying the automatic installation on Windows. Teams is delivered to Bowdoin-issued computers automatically or through managed software tools. Installing Teams on a personal computer is covered in a separate article.

Explains how the owner of a video recorded in Microsoft Teams can download that video from Microsoft Stream to share it on another platform or keep a personal archive. Covers signing in to Microsoft 365, opening the Stream app, and downloading a video. Applies to Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students who own recorded Teams content.

This article explains how to schedule a webinar with a registration page in Microsoft Teams, customize the registration form, host the live event, and review attendance afterward. It is intended for Bowdoin faculty and staff who need to run larger, registration-based online events rather than standard meetings.

Instructions for recording a class session in Microsoft Teams from an instructor computer that has a PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera connected. Covers connecting the camera, starting and stopping the recording, and finding the saved recording. Applies to Bowdoin faculty and instructors using classroom computers.

Explains why a Teams meeting organizer might want to limit participant privileges and how to use Meeting options to choose who can present. Applies to Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students who organize Microsoft Teams meetings.

Explains the different ways to start or schedule a Microsoft Teams meeting, including an ad-hoc video, voice, or screen-sharing session from a chat, and scheduled meetings created in the Outlook desktop app, Outlook on the web, or the Microsoft Teams calendar. Applies to Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students using Microsoft Teams.

This article explains why a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file stored in Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive is sometimes locked, even though two people can normally edit the same file at the same time. It describes how to tell who is holding a file open, what checking a file out does, and how to keep working while a lock clears.

This article explains how version history works for files stored in Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive, where to find it, and how to put an earlier version of a file back. It also explains why restoring an older version does not erase newer ones.

This article explains what deleting a Microsoft Team removes, including the Team's SharePoint site and every channel's files. It also explains the 30 day window for recovering a deleted Team and why archiving is usually the better choice for a Team whose work is finished.

Instructions for archiving a Microsoft Team so its conversations and files become read-only, restoring an archived Team, and making specific SharePoint folders read-only when a whole Team cannot be archived. Also explains what happens to files in an archived Team and the Microsoft 365 Team expiration policy. Applies to Bowdoin Team owners and members.

This article explains what happens to a Bowdoin colleague's files after that person leaves the College. It describes which files stay available, which files disappear with the departed account, how a department requests recovery of files held in a departed colleague's OneDrive, and how to keep the same loss from happening again.

This article explains what happens to a Microsoft Team when its only owner leaves Bowdoin, how to check whether a Team still has an active owner, and how to get ownership restored. It also lists the handover a departing Team owner should complete.

This article explains the email Microsoft sends to Team owners before an inactive Microsoft Team expires. It covers what the warning means, what counts as activity, how an owner renews a Team in one step, what is deleted if nobody acts, and what to do with a Team the department has finished using.