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Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

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Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

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Post by mc32 »

unyttigfjelltol wrote: post #43

MS tries to do way too much with M365 Teams. Why is this application concerned at all about the details of my WiFi connection? What if I’m wired? Tattle then? Teams has it’s own bug-addled system-independent audio settings too, and it completely broke compatibility with my Bluetooth headset device some years ago. Took forever to diagnose. MS can’t help but layer complexity on needless complexity in Teams while allowi…

Does it just go by SSID or is it looking at the public IP address? If it’s just SSID I can just add an SSID of the same name.

Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

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Post by gitaarik »

IshKebab wrote: post #2

Sounds like a useful feature tbh. I wouldn't ever work for a company again that didn't have fully flexible working (no requirements to come into the office at all if you don't want). But I also wouldn't lie to my boss about it. I guess you can always use the web version via a VPN or something. I doubt it can deal with that.

Sounds like 1984 to me

Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

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Post by gitaarik »

shakna wrote: post #10

> When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in. Great. Now the secure VM I use will always appear remote, when I'm in the office.

It reads the local wifi network you're connected to. What would a VPN make for difference?

Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

#54

Post by sodaclean »

zrobotics wrote: post #50
mcny wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My biggest pet peeve - Ctrl plus shift plus v pastes unformatted but right next to it is Ctrl plus shift plus c which starts a call in whatever chat you are in. Also there is no way within ms teams to remove this binding. Wat‽

You should be able to capture this keybinding with autohotkey. I don't have my script handy, on mobile, but you can capture keys based on the active window. These keystrokes aren't passed to the active window, so you could have it take an alternate (or no) action.

Lol. Autohotkey on a corp machine

Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

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Post by shakna »

gitaarik wrote: post #53
shakna wrote: post #10

> When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in. Great. Now the secure VM I use will always appear remote, when I'm in the office.

It reads the local wifi network you're connected to. What would a VPN make for difference?

No... I connect to a VM. Not a VPN.

Teams runs within the VM, as does 100% of the things I'm allowed to use for work. So the "local network" for the VM, is Azure.

Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

#56

Post by teeray »

caminante wrote: post #42
onionisafruit wrote: post #20

If you need software to figure out if somebody is in the office, then it isn’t important for them to be in the office. The supposed benefit of being in the office is because teams work better in person. If everybody else is at the office, it’s obvious who isn’t there.

This is a paper trail for "just cause" to fire someone. Also shortens the leash on corp debt slaves. Edit: this is the "enterprise solution", whereas I agree you're right at the margins.

> This is a paper trail for "just cause" to fire someone.

Just like surprise, low Speed Limit signs that provide probable cause to pull over whoever you like.

Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

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Post by teeray »

mcny wrote: post #46
unyttigfjelltol wrote: post #43

MS tries to do way too much with M365 Teams. Why is this application concerned at all about the details of my WiFi connection? What if I’m wired? Tattle then? Teams has it’s own bug-addled system-independent audio settings too, and it completely broke compatibility with my Bluetooth headset device some years ago. Took forever to diagnose. MS can’t help but layer complexity on needless complexity in Teams while allowi…

My biggest pet peeve - Ctrl plus shift plus v pastes unformatted but right next to it is Ctrl plus shift plus c which starts a call in whatever chat you are in. Also there is no way within ms teams to remove this binding. Wat‽

> Ctrl plus shift plus v pastes unformatted

“Paste with formatting” is a scourge of a “feature.” I can’t recall ever wanting to actually do that.

Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

#58

Post by RoyTyrell »

Every recent employer I've had uses a VPN to get into their internal network when you're not logged into wifi or ethernet from inside a building, so I don't see this Teams change as a big deal. Must be something for small employers without much, if any, IT infrastructure or IT dept.

Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

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Post by mmh0000 »

RoyTyrell wrote: post #58

Every recent employer I've had uses a VPN to get into their internal network when you're not logged into wifi or ethernet from inside a building, so I don't see this Teams change as a big deal. Must be something for small employers without much, if any, IT infrastructure or IT dept.

My guess, based on the reading article, is they're doing the locating via WiFi BSSID. So, VPN won't matter... But, it's easy enough to spoof a BSSID from home >:)

Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

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Post by mmh0000 »

sodaclean wrote: post #54
zrobotics wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should be able to capture this keybinding with autohotkey. I don't have my script handy, on mobile, but you can capture keys based on the active window. These keystrokes aren't passed to the active window, so you could have it take an alternate (or no) action.

Lol. Autohotkey on a corp machine

Lol. Following "corporate policy"; that's for suckers. Hacker mindset means you can't stop the signal, mal!
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