MS Teams - Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, but students are created in a separate client and can only be included as guests in teams on the employee client. Please note guests in teams and "Special features for students".

You can find detailed instructions for use in online teaching at the Centre for Media Learning (ZML): https://www.zml.kit.edu/downloads/Anleitung_Lehre_MSTeams.pdf

For this, the external colleague must invite you with the address ab1234∂kit edu ! An invitation with the normal mail address does not work, because this address is unknown in the teams area.

At KIT, MS Teams is currently only "tolerated" by KIT data protection and functionalities/possibilities offered by MS Teams in general are RESTRICTED at KIT.

External partners cannot currently be included in MS Teams as guests of a team at KIT. In addition, data storage under OneDrive and thus a comfortable data exchange with external partners is currently not possible.

However, if the external persons work with you for a longer period of time, it is possible to set up a so-called GuP account (KIT account for guests and partners) for them in your OU. To do this, contact the IT representative of your OU or the person responsible for managing these guest accounts in the SAP system (guest and partner management). With a created GuP account, the person can then be registered as a team member in a team, provided that he or she agrees to the privacy policy for the use of MS Teams.
Disadvantage: the external person has to log in to MS Teams with the KIT-GuP account and cannot use the possibly already existing MS Teams account of his OU/institution.
Note: A guest account is set up relatively quickly. This must be activated by the person using it in the SCC Self-Service Portal so that logging into MS Teams can be done via the mail address ab1234∂partner.kit.edu.

Furthermore, we would like to point out the following services provided by the SCC, for data exchange and collaboration:

 

• KIT Teamsites - Platform for collaboration and communication of teams at KIT (organizational units, working and project groups).
• bwSync&Share - online storage service for employees and students of the universities and colleges in Baden-Württemberg.
• KIT data storage (OE directory) for exchange with everyone who has a KIT account (would then be possible with externals who have a GuP account)

Necessary steps

In order for you (the students) to be offered courses in teams, the following steps must be taken:

1. Consent to the privacy policy, https://my.scc.kit.edu/shib/azurefreigabe.php
2. The invitation to join a team must be accepted (join team). The invitation is sent out by the lecturer, or you can join a team in Ilias.
3. Teams must be started (web application or app) and
4. agree to a second Microsoft privacy policy. Then it should be possible to change clients as described on the page https://www.scc.kit.edu/dienste/ms-teams-studierende.php.

Solution for problems

Please allow yourself a lot (!) of time between the individual steps. If it still doesn't work after 24 hours, please contact teams-support∂scc.kit.edu with your uxxxx∂student.kit.edu account.

Cause

The cause of the problem is most likely due to an error at Microsoft and the sometimes very long synchronization times of individual components.

Further notes/possibilities

• Call up Tenant -> this will give you the opportunity to agree to the Microsoft privacy policy (https://teams.microsoft.com/_?tenantId=4f5eec75-46fd-43f8-8d24-62bebd9771e5)
• With uxxxx account log in at https://my.scc.kit.edu. There, under "MS-Teams Cloud Usage", request the individualized invitation link and follow the instructions in the e-mail that is sent out -> this will give you the opportunity to agree to the Microsoft Privacy Policy. At the same time you will be automatically added to a test team. You can leave the test team at any time.
• Please try Chrome https://teams.microsoft.com first.
• Log out/log in. To log out means: Click on log out in the top right corner. Always log in with your KIT Account uxxxx∂student.kit.edu to
• For problems with the desktop app (client change works in the browser)
  • switch back and forth between clients in the browser. This should also be possible with a time delay in the client.
  • Empty the cache: https://medium.com/365uc/how-to-force-refresh-rebuild-of-microsoft-teams-client-cache-e92b7739fca3
  • Reinstall the desktop app.

Unfortunately, students do not find the employee accounts in the teams area of KIT and therefore cannot start a chat with the supervisor from their side.
However, if the supervisor starts a chat with the student, her contact will appear in the student's contact list and the communication can be maintained at any time.

Lecturers can apply for one or more guest accounts for their guest students (GH) via the ticket system for the use of MS Teams at KIT.
Once the GH account has been created, it must be assigned to the appropriate team (lecture) by the lecturer, unless it was specified when applying.

For the assignment of multiple Gashthörer accounts, use the Excel file "Template_MSTeams_GasthoererInnenAmKIT.xlsx" (explanations included) and attach it to the assignment ticket.

Please agree to the privacy policy. If this does not help: please send an email with your account to teams-support∂scc kit edu.

No!
When registering for teams, the account verification is forwarded to our own Shibboleth provider. Here the account (in the form ab1234 or uxxxx) is requested again.
The password is requested at this point and only at this point.
If you have to enter a password beforehand, you are either not logging in with an account within kit.edu/student.kit.edu/partner.kit.edu or you have landed on a page that poses a security risk.
Bottom line: only provide the password on our own site!

Some apps, including Microsoft Teams, report via a Windows Defender Firewall dialog that some features are blocked by the firewall. This message can be ignored with the "Cancel" button.

For MS Teams to work in the browser, third-party cookies must not be blocked. In Chrome the error can be corrected by calling the page chrome://settings/content/cookies. There, turn off the option "Block third-party cookies".

Accounts created within the last few minutes may not have been assigned a license for team use. If the problem persists even after a long wait or with an existing account, please contact teams-supportNsh7∂scc kit edu

Error message when trying to log in: AADSTS51004: The user account kontokürzel@[student,partner].kit.edu does not exist in the [216844dc-9c90-4949-8e4b-58ea2d2c3dbe, 4f5eec75-46fd-43f8-8d24-62bebd9771e5] directory. To sign into this application, the account must be added to the directory.

Please still agree to the privacy policy in the self-service portal my.scc.kit.edu.
Only then your account will be synced into the MS Teams area. This may take about 30 min. After that, try to log in again.

For data protection reasons, the VoiceMails function including the transcription option is switched off.

The data is stored on Microsoft servers and therefore you should handle your data with care. No sensitive data should be uploaded or talked about. Therefore there is only a toleration of data protection during the crisis.

It is up to each employee to decide whether or not to switch on the camera on his or her terminal. It is not permitted to force the use of the camera. Recording of the video conference does not work. This function is currently not available.

Via https://connect.studium.kit.edu an overview of the existing teams can be displayed.
In the table, teams can be left again by clicking on "Leave team". It may take some time until the change is synchronized in all systems and is also displayed in the Teams client.

At myaccount.microsoft.com collected information about the own teams account can be found.

Here you can find, for example, the e-mail address with which you can be invited externally. Under the heading "Organizations" you can see all the organizations you work with. Here you can also leave external organizations.

Please note: The password to your own account cannot be changed here!
The Teams account is linked to the KIT account at KIT. And the rule is: password change only via identity management (IDM), this means Password change only via my.scc.kit.edu .

For data protection reasons, the VoiceMails function including the transcription option is switched off.

In the course of December, the client change will move from the header (to the left of the bobble) to the bobble menu!
So you have to click on the bobble, click on "Account and Orgs" and then finally select the client.

There are several options.

• You can only find people who have agreed to use Microsoft Teams. No record is created in the address book without consent.
• Shorter searches than 6 characters are not possible.
• Students can only be found in the employee client if they have been invited.
• Students can only be searched by first name and surname if they have agreed to the transfer. Otherwise students are only listed under pseudonym.
• One account can have multiple email addresses associated with it, but only one of them is transferred to the Microsoft cloud. Therefore, finding an email address is often difficult.
• Newly created accounts are not immediately available in the directories.
• Your team client may have cached old search results.

Bypass solution Alternatively, if you cannot find a colleague to add to a team, the colleague can search for the team and request to join. We are not aware of any problems this way.

MS teams (and only this) are only available for the time of the Corona crisis and are only tolerated by data protection during this time. After the crisis, a reconsideration of the possible applications will take place. The calendar and other cloud services are not primarily part of teams and are therefore not released. Existing users were not subsequently restricted.

This function is currently not available.

In a meeting, there is definitely more often a need to retreat into smaller groups for a discussion.

For this purpose, with the client app now gives a new icon: Two nested rectangles.
If you click on them, you can create different rooms and assign people to them.

Without a client app, there are the following two options:

Meeting only with team members in teams

• create multiple channels
• assign one channel to each team member
• start a meeting in all channels in time

For discussion, the team members then use the respective meeting in the selected channel

Meeting with team members and with external participants

• Create an Outlook appointment for each breakout room with "New Teams Meeting".
• Name the appointments in a meaningful way. They are all in parallel in terms of time.
• Now create a web page for yourself on which you embed the meeting links

This way, everyone can access the right spaces for discussion in smaller groups.

This is not possible with the current configuration at KIT.
Reason: The KIT mailboxes would have to be located at Microsoft in the cloud, but these are located locally on the KIT Exchange servers.

The operating system is not supported by Microsoft with the client application. Possibly the (limited) use in a browser is possible.