Outlook To Teams Group Chat (PowerTools/AutoHotkey)

In my last presentation for the Teams Community Day, Dennis Weber wished to have the feature implemented in the PowerTools to convert an Outlook Email or Meeting to a Microsoft Teams Group Chat with the possibility to select To or CC/Optional Addressees conveniently.

Previously one had to merge both To and CC fields manually.

This is now implemented.

Teams Create Group Chat/ Open Chat

I describe in this blog post a nice functionality in the PowerTools to create quickly a Teams Group Chat or open a 1-1 Chat from a selection containing email addresses.

How to manage Contact Favorites in Microsoft Teams

In Microsoft Teams you can organize your Contacts a bit in a flat structure. But still, it takes quite a few clicks to call or chat with a favorite contact. Wouldn't it be cool if you could do such from a launcher bar? I present here a solution for it.

Add list of users to a Microsoft Teams Team e.g. from Outlook, Excel using the PowerTools

It is right now quite cumbersome to add a list of users you have the email of to a Microsoft Teams Team in a bulk way. The client UI does not offer this. (You need to add users one by one).
The currently most practical way is using a PowerShell script but still it might be some work to get it running. (Edit: see alternative using Power Automate)
I present here a solution implemented in AutoHotkey that can seamlessly add a list of users you already have in Outlook or Excel or a list of Emails in your clipboard to a Team.
It is implemented in the People Connector PowerTool.