I have two Outlooks and neither of them are working
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I understood that reference
One day kids won't understand the reference and will probably come up with stuff like "That's funny, didn't I donate my left testicle as required by Microsoft government for population maintenance purposes? Why are they asking me to donate my remaining testicle?
Imagine finding a log with something like "we couldn't stop shareholders, our planet is doomed. We will start with a new colony on the planet closer to sun, perhaps this time we will not destroy our home"
I had the same thought. Evidence of a long extinct and clearly human civilization.
Exact replicas of everyone on Earth. But we all have something... off about us.
Artemis II astronauts going around the Moon: "I have two Outlooks, neither of which works"
Astronauts during the first Mars mission: "I previously had two Teams versions, neither of which worked, and now there's apparently a third one, and it doesn't work either"
"Houston, what is 'New Teams Classic' and why is it asking me to log in three times in a row?"
Funny enough, he found out later he had three outlooks lol
I have to use Teams for work and it baffles me how unbelievably bad the interface is. Everything that should be easy and quick to do is made difficult and time consuming. Every time you try to do something simple you'd expect to be able to, it is blocked or limited in such a way that you can't do it and you have to find a workaround. It fights you in every way it can whenever you're trying to accomplish something. You also have to sign in with two factor authentication multiple times every day. I don't understand how this so-called "productivity" suite is even tolerated by private companies. It cripples productivity.
While I agree the UI needs some work, getting prompted for MFA multiple times a day for just using Teams chat and meetings is not normal.
It's not? Everyone at my company has the same experience.
Your IT has set up Conditional Access policies with a Sign-in Frequency set too low (it should really be labeled as a period, because it defines the time period that will occur before reauthentication is required). For regular users like all of you, forcing reauthentication that many times each day is excessive and just cruel on the users. They maybe thought it would make them super secure, but it only trains the users that MFA is an annoyance rather than an important security feature.
It’s a setting that can easily be changed, so make some noise and see if you can get some feedback passed through your org structure to IT.
I don't think I've ever had to sign into Teams (PR Outlook, for that matter) in my desktop. Mobile, I have to after changing my password. I assumed all the MS apps signed me in with my domain login on my laptop. On weird issue I have is things like SharePoint and Dynamics 365 asking me to sign in again after its already brought up the site, and clicking the button to do it just brings a blank pop-up that immediately disappears and I'm logged "for real" I guess.
Yeah that’s usually the case, but some orgs don’t domain join devices cause they are bad.
Also the dynamics blank popup thing is your windows auth working
I've worked at different places that used Teams, and that thing with having to re- login regularly is certainly fault of whoever administers Teams within your organization.
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Just started at a place that uses teams. The window always says I have two unread messages. I don't.
Probably missed calls. It'll keep showing a notification bubble in both activity and calls until you bother clicking the missed call as if that makes any difference or sense to anyone or anything but the notification counter.
Or theyre reactions to a message
Yeah, those don't work well with Outlook. I get an e-mail from Microsoft telling me to login to the web version only to see that someone put a 👍 on my e-mail. It completely defies the purpose.
Microsoft really knows how to keep office workers occupied doing nothing at all.
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If you go to notifications and filter by unread you will probably be able to find what it is
Elon Musks bones.
No, wait, you said terrifying, not terrific. never mind.
Don't give him what he says his life goal is (die on Mars). It would be way more terrific if he died in a supercar crash (like the one he had in 2000 with Peter Thiel as passenger in a $1M McLaren F1, the fastest production car back then).
God, if only we.could have been so lucky. Imagine how the last 26 years would've been with them dead.
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I now know to which moment in time i go back to adjust the outcome, if the opportunity arises.
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You need to update teams to join this meeting that starts in 1 minute.
Oh no, I can't join the meeting, Teams is broken again
wtf even downvotes do you work in microsoft or what? or do we have "anything big tech is good" bots here
Bill Gates logged in under six different usernames to downvote it.
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Mars is doing the me gusta meme face.
I can sometimes hear Teams notification sound from neighbour's apartment, triggers me to check my phone almost every time.
Enabling sound notifs for teams is pathological self hating behavior
They added the teams call sound as a horn to forza horizon 6, I made a few people tab out of the game with it lol
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It turns out all the Rust is just dyno clippies that rusted out millions of years ago when the planet was populated by clipies.
"Didn't you see my post in the channel?"
"Sweety, I don't know wtf is going on in this cluster fuck. Be thankful I even replied"
Or maybe you believe in the Great Filter hypothesis, and signs of life discovered on Mars implies that this filter may be ahead of humanity rather than behind it
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"No Trespassing" signs, written in Goa'uld.
Honestly, anything written that we could understand without deciphering would raise a couple of terrifying questions:
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Who / What wrote this?
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Do they know our language or do we know theirs?
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Static crackles in the astronaut’s helmet as he makes his way onto the red soil. A message pops up on his display. “Hey, got a sec for a quick teams call?”
There are no Teams servers on Mars and the client will time out before radio signals can reach Earth. So any copies of Microsoft Teams on Mars are just a waste of storage space, and not very terrifying compared to "actual" malware that could be in the same storage space.
the client will time out
So exactly how it works on Earth?
Not exactly. It time out for different reasons. On earth it times out trying to authorise thru ActiveDirectory, which will never succeed because your company uses AD and not Teams, but Teams is too stupid to realise that it should use another auth method, just because it sees AD on the system.
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twist: Microsoft already built data centers and servers on Mars.
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