Microsoft teams

[Hope42]

AIBU to think this could have happened? Please help to reassure me!
I had a Zoom call with friends last night. Realised my work teams desktop app had been open in the background the whole time. I have a separate user profile for work so don’t know how this happened!

Is there any way that the Zoom could have uploaded somewhere on Teams. Or could I have gone live on teams without knowing? Is there any way for me to find out? Please help!

I'm not quite clear what the set up was with your technology, but what you've described sounds a bit convoluted

Were you using your work laptop for your social event on Zoom? And while you were running the Zoom session you also had the MS Teams open with the possibility that work colleagues with permissions on your Teams site could have been connected to the Zoom session while you were running Teams?

Based on my experience of both platforms, they are two separate applications with separate security profiles and you'd need to have shared a link to your Zoom event directly with the people in your Teams App. Not sure you can do that by accident! Other than that I'm not sure what you mean by Is there any way that the Zoom could have uploaded somewhere on Teams unless you copied and pasted the Zoom link into the collaboration section of your Teams. Who knows.

I would strongly advise you not to use your work laptop for private use, that must surely be against your employers IT policy (it would be a disciplinary at my place).

@daisychain01

I'm not quite clear what the set up was with your technology, but what you've described sounds a bit convoluted

Were you using your work laptop for your social event on Zoom? And while you were running the Zoom session you also had the MS Teams open with the possibility that work colleagues with permissions on your Teams site could have been connected to the Zoom session while you were running Teams?

Based on my experience of both platforms, they are two separate applications with separate security profiles and you'd need to have shared a link to your Zoom event directly with the people in your Teams App. Not sure you can do that by accident! Other than that I'm not sure what you mean by Is there any way that the Zoom could have uploaded somewhere on Teams unless you copied and pasted the Zoom link into the collaboration section of your Teams. Who knows.

I would strongly advise you not to use your work laptop for private use, that must surely be against your employers IT policy (it would be a disciplinary at my place).

Thanks for your reply. I think what I’m imagining is probably impossible but just worried the zoom content could have recorded and uploaded to teams without my knowledge!

We haven’t been given work laptops. I have a personal profile and a work profile on my laptop. Unsure how teams was open on the personal profile but it was. Now so paranoid it’s shared with Teams. Is there anyway I can check on Teams what I recently shared/uploaded?

Like pp that does not sound possible they are two separate apps and you would have to be doing something like 'share my screen' for one to see the other.

But sounds like you might want to consider your online use if you are doing things you think could get you into serious work trouble as sounds like you are worried about something beyond just being a bit embarrassing? Get a separate devise or use your phone for personal stuff?

Are you paranoid about your camera?

@milkjetmum

Like pp that does not sound possible they are two separate apps and you would have to be doing something like 'share my screen' for one to see the other.

But sounds like you might want to consider your online use if you are doing things you think could get you into serious work trouble as sounds like you are worried about something beyond just being a bit embarrassing? Get a separate devise or use your phone for personal stuff?

I just mentioned something I’d not been happy with at work. Would be embarrassing if it was heard. Should have thought more carefully before discussing on Zoom.

Definitely not going to use my laptop again for Zooms. Will use husband’s laptop. My mind worries too much.

@grassisjeweled

Are you paranoid about your camera?

More worried something was pressed and I was unaware and the Zoom content was shared on my work Zoom without me knowing. Unlikely, but I can’t work out how to see if that’s happened or not.

That’s not how either teams or zoom work. As other people have said their two totally different things. It’s a bit like saying I had both word and excel open will what I’m typing in word appear in excel! No.

You can have both open they don’t interact.

Also neither just record things. You or the person your talking too have to press record, and in both cases there will be a very obvious sign that the call is being recorded.

Also your calls aren’t just broadcast to the whole organisation on Teams, you have to be in the meeting! Well actually that’s not quite true, but you would have to record the meeting (on teams) and then on the recording, go through the options to make the recording available to the whole organisation, you would definitely know you’d done it, you couldn’t have pressed something accidentally. Or you’d have to upload the video to teams and again make it available for the whole organisation,

Unless you were in a zoom meeting with someone and on a teams call at the same time, one won't just share with the other. You would need to be on both, with someone else on teams who was recording. I regularly use zoom and have teams open at the same time- the content isn't shared.

Having just Googled "can Zoom interact with Teams" the answer to that is yes. Whether anything has happened in your scenario without you deliberately making it so... unlikely. Do you use the Zoom app in your Teams environment?

I'm not overly familiar with teams, but zoom can only be recorded if you're the host and then asks multiple times if you're sure and where/how you want to save the recording.

Even if you were, though, what are the chances that someone you work with was on teams late on a Saturday night to hear what was being said?!
AND THEN at the end of the session, you can't leave the zoom until it has downloaded and saved the recording where you have asked it to.

So the chances of something being recorded and posted to zoom without you knowing are slim, but no clue if you could have been broadcasting on there at the same time.

Why would she use Zoom within Teams when Teams has its own colling functionality?
Zoom and Teams are two separate apps, unless you were sharing your screen in Zoom and displaying teams or in Teams sharing Zoom then you’re fine.
Maybe don’t use a work laptop for a private Zoom call next time.
Stoo worrying.

Stop not stoo

You can have a Zoom app on Teams. We might use this to work with external people.
support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005145563-Getting-Started-with-the-Microsoft-Teams-Integration?mobile_site=true#:~:text=Zoom's%20Microsoft%20Teams%20integration%20allows,and%20add%20the%20app%20here.

You're panicking.

Teams and Zoom are two separate programs. But, you can get the Zoom widget for Teams. Teams has the ability to record meetings and auto load to Microsoft Stream. But, you would have had a notification to say that had happened.

Im not sure how Zooms own recordings are stored but legally, all participants have to be told about the recording (this is done by a banner appearing to say it is being recorded). So, if you didn't see this banner your meeting won't have been recorded and it definitely wouldn't have migrated from Zoom to Microsoft Stream.

You can share your whole screen in Teams so that it doesnt matter what window you have open, the others can see it. It's how I usually share my screen as tend to have to flit between different applications.

However, in order for your Zoom call to have been watched by someone from your org, you'd have had to start a Teams call, shared your whole screen AND the person from your org would have had to be connected to that call (or view a recording which you would also have had to action).

So, no. Noone was listening to you moan about work on Zoom.

I would try not to worry about it. Even if your Zoom call could integrate with Teams, is there any chance any of your work colleagues would have been on the call on a Saturday night to hear what you said?

Good summary from sleepyhead

What sleepy said, if you haven’t started a meeting or a call in Teams, why do you think anyone could have heard you?