Lyndsay’s A-Z of Microsoft Teams – Y is for…

Lyndsay’s A-Z of Microsoft Teams – Y is for…

There’s SO MUCH going on in Microsoft Teams as a product, how do you even start to talk about it?! In this blog series I’m going to attempt to work my way through the letters of the alphabet, talking about as many features as I can think of in turn.

If you’re new to Teams, hopefully this helps you find your way around. If you’re not new to Teams, maybe you’ll still get some new ideas. Here we go…

Y is for YouTube

I thought X would be the hardest letter, but turns out there aren’t many Microsoft Teams features that begin with the letter Y!

Let’s talk about the YouTube teams app then. Why oh why do you need an app for YouTube in Teams? This is what I thought when I originally saw it – turns out it does have some uses though.

YouTube

You can add the YouTube app from the Teams App Store, which lets you search YouTube videos directly from Teams:

I’m not wholly convinced that this a killer use case for this feature to be honest. I guess it’s handy being able to click the share button and send the video straight into a chat or channel:

Buuuut – I think most people would just copy and paste the URL into a chat or channel from YouTube in a browser, wouldn’t they?

If you click on open instead of share, you get the option to share the video into a meeting (or start a new meeting sharing the video):

When you do this, you also get the option to allow everyone else to take control of the video (this may make those of you who like to be in charge of the tv remote at all times a tad uncomfortable – you know who you are):

I guess this feature is a pretty good shortcut to sharing a video into a meeting, especially one with sound.

It cuts out the whole fiddly process of sharing your screen, inevitably forgetting to ‘include sound’ when you share, so having to stop and restart the share… (if you know you know).

I guess I’m reluctantly persuaded that this part of the app is a pretty useful feature after all.

That’s all I’ve got for Y! The penultimate blog of this series – can you believe we’ve made it this far?!

Tune in next week for Z, wrapping up all 26 letters of the alphabet!

If you liked this blog and want to catch up on the rest of the A-Z series so far, you can find posts A-X here:

https://lyndsay.blog/2023/03/01/lyndsays-a-z-of-microsoft-teams-a-is-for/

https://lyndsay.blog/2023/03/07/lyndsays-a-z-of-microsoft-teams/

https://lyndsay.blog/2023/03/16/lyndsays-a-z-of-microsoft-teams-b-is-for/

https://lyndsay.blog/2023/03/22/lyndsays-a-z-of-microsoft-teams-c-is-for-part-1/

Lyndsay’s A-Z of Microsoft Teams – C is for… (Part 2) – Lyndsay Ansell’s Blog

Lyndsay’s A-Z of Microsoft Teams – C is for… (Part 3) – Lyndsay Ansell’s Blog

Lyndsay’s A-Z of Microsoft Teams – C is for (part 4!!!) – Lyndsay Ansell’s Blog

Lyndsay’s A-Z of Microsoft Teams – D is for… – Lyndsay Ansell’s Blog