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February was a very busy month for Orchestry’s development team. A massive release was pushed out in the middle of February that included over 100 enhancements to the Orchestry app – all of which was a compilation of feedback we’ve received from our Customers and Partners.
The Product team at Orchestry pays close attention to the feedback our valued Customers and Partners provide. In February we pushed out a release with over 100 improvements to the Orchestry app, including bug fixes, enhancements to the user interface and user experience, feature improvements, and more.
But, since an overview of all 100 improvements would take hours to read through, we will focus on covering just a couple.
One of the truly noteworthy features of Orchestry is our library of pre-built business-first templates for Teams and SharePoint sites. All of our pre-built templates for Teams come with a Team Information tab, which not only looks beautiful but also offers a ton of useful high-level information about the Team to be viewed by Team members, Owners, Guests, and people who are looking to join the Team.
Apart from the basics, like the name of the Team, and the description (a rarity in Teams world, but with the help of Orchestry the description input is enforced at the Team creation stage), the Team Information tab shines a light on many other extremely useful pieces of information:
While none of this is new and the users of Orchestry have been enjoying the benefits and the user-friendliness of the Team Information tab for some time, the updates released this February were to the Users section of the tab.
The Users part of the Information tab now displays users in their respective sections (Owners, Members, Guests) using custom condensed cards with all the necessary information, including the user’s image, full name, and now their job title and department (provided that information is available in Azure AD).
Although not a significant change to this feature, it goes to show how Orchestry as platform endeavors to make Teams ridiculously accessible, user-friendly, and enjoyable to interact with on a daily basis, even for the most non-technical users. Implementing custom tabs like this one is bound to improve company-wide adoption and the usability of Teams, however, would take hours to custom code. Orchestry’s templates come pre-configured with tabs like this (on top of many other web parts and customizable elements) and require zero coding or scripting to use.
Speaking of templates, our future product releases over the next couple of months will include the addition of a whole bunch of new templates, including employee onboarding and offboarding, product release, risk assessment and so much more. So make sure to join our newsletter list by subscribing below to stay in the know of what’s coming and what is being released.
As we’ve covered, Orchestry’s Team Information tab displays the metadata of the Team. The metadata you request to be collected during the Team creation process is entirely up to the needs of the organization and can include the department, division, location, etc.
In one of our recent updates, we made the metadata about the Team editable by Owners of the Team, directly from the Team Information tab. Some Orchestry users (particularly those who are 100% committed to preserving their M365 governance standards and metadata integrity), suggested that they should have control of whether the editability of metadata is available in their tenant. Thanks to this incredibly valuable feedback from real-world usage of Orchestry, in the latest release, we have introduced a new global toggle that determines whether or not you wish to have this option available across your tenant.
The default setting for this in Orchestry is the editing of metadata is disabled, but if you wish to change that, you can easily do so through the Orchestry admin center.
As we’ve briefly mentioned above, Orchestry’s advanced Guest Management features allow Orchestry users to request the addition of new Guest users to a Team directly from the Team Information tab.
The process of adding new Guests to a Team using Orchestry is fully customizable and can require approval from the Team Owner, or another member(s), or require the collection of additional information about the Guest (apart from the email).
We have made improvements to the user interface associated with the addition of new Guests to support the addition of multiple Guests at a time. Previously it was not obvious in the UI if you’ve requested several Guests but have yet to click the “Done” button. As part of this release, we have added a new section that displays the Guest users that are part of the current request so that whoever is adding Guests has better visibility into what is going to happen next.
A simple, yet elegant solution, which makes adding new Guests to a Team, even more user-friendly.
In February, we focused on putting together and sharing with you many useful resources that will help you better manage the full Microsoft 365 lifecycle – from creation to archival and deletion of documents, SharePoint sites, and Teams. Here is a summary of all the great articles we shared with you this month:
Orchestry is a remote organization, which means our team members work from every part of the US and Canada and we get to see each other primarily on the screen of our computers (which actually makes us THAT much better at mastering the ins and outs of collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, hence makes us better at what we do!). This February we spent 3 coffee-fueled days together in Vancouver, Canada, bonding over great food, bowling, and our deep passion for our work. We planned what 2023 will look like for Orchestry, brainstormed incredible features we will be presenting to all of you throughout this year and into the next one, and came up with ways to support our ever-growing numbers of Customers & Partners even better than before.
It was incredible to meet Orchestry team members in person, validate our hypotheses on our heights (you REALLY can’t tell how tall someone is by seeing them on Teams calls!), and come to love the many great personalities and hidden talents our Team members possess. Did you know that our CTO Sarah Wilson is a VERY accomplished bowler?!
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