Microsoft Teams on Linux

Tags: Faq Linuxtips

Rudi suggested I point out that Microsoft Teams is available for Linux.

This is a team working tool which, amongst other things, will be the successor to Skype for Business. Unlike Skype, there is a version for Linux.

I’ve done a bit of testing on my work desktop and, in general, things worked. I did have trouble with getting audio from my analogue microphone though (USB mic worked fine, as did my analogue mic at home). Since I’m not all that enamoured with using computers as phones in any case, I then tried installing the Android app on my phone. That seems to work perfectly - Sandy, Dave and I had a three way video call this morning.

Update - 11 Aug 2020

I’ve taken it off my phone. While it works perfectly, it apparently has no concept of “not available” times. People can call you at any time of the day or night and the only way I’ve found of stopping them is to log out completely (with the attendant risk of forgetting to log back in during working hours). Having any member of the Uni able to phone me at 2am isn’t my idea of security!