Teams Real Simple with Pictures: Links open preference & Hiding chat message preview

Back from an unexpected month off: so what happened? The double dip of Airlift and Ignite happened. Several big transitions at work happened. Several Microsoft CCP's running great guns. And a rebrand of Microsoft 365 Defender to Microsoft Defender XDR, in the middle of rebrand from Azure AD to Entra ID, and Copilot. More Copilot. And even more Copilot. 2023 has been a big year. A perfect storm of sorts. And I don't mind admitting I've needed every one of my fifteen years experience in the industry to surmount it. The velocity. The volume. Some things have just had to slide or take a back seat occassionally. Vesku? He got a bit worried at one point asked me if I was thinking about doing a Jukka. Now, it's hard to see one of the greats leave the MVP program. His article was thoughtful, honest, articulate and insightful. From personal experience, I respect and empathise with his position. But having been in many boiler room situations in the past, and having experienced that Milan Kunderaesque unbearable lightness of being, this last month has simply been a case of negotiating a tidal wave. It'll pass - and Christmas should be excellent. So as I get back into things as things settle on out I am going to keep it real simple and cover two elements which I came across in the last week. The first is Links open preference which allows you to determine which browser you want Teams links to open up a tab on if you click a link in the Teams 2.1 desktop client. This came about because a partner was wondering why links started opening in Microsoft Edge as opposed to their default browser which was Chrome. The second is the ability to hide chat message preview. This was to help a partner who had problems focussing on teams chats because message previews repeatedly peaked his interest. Now there are always much bigger things to talk about in Teams and the wider world of Microsoft 365. I have some good ones lined up - but you know how I am regarding the small pragmatic adds. I love them. And you may miss them if you are not rooting about in the client. They really could make your day.