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Hands-On Microsoft Teams - Second Edition

By : João Ferreira
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Hands-On Microsoft Teams - Second Edition

By: João Ferreira

Overview of this book

Microsoft Teams is a permanent fixture in the modern workplace, but many of its productivity-boosting features go unnoticed or unused. Hands-On Microsoft Teams shows you how to use Teams to its full potential through easy-to-follow practical tutorials. This guide to mastering Teams explores the platform in comprehensive detail and how it interacts with the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem to help you work efficiently and manage your resources. You'll get to grips with core functionality like setting up and managing teams, channels, chats, tabs, and meetings. You'll also learn to get the best out of Teams by adding custom apps, integrating with Microsoft 365, using PowerShell automation, and exploring useful settings you didn't know existed. Along the way, you'll be shown various real-world scenarios and how to implement solutions for them in Teams that will increase your productivity. Whether you're an administrator, manager, or team member, by the end of this book you'll be confident in using everything Microsoft Teams has to offer.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Learning how to use PowerShell from examples

In this section, you will find three examples of how PowerShell can be used to automate tasks within Microsoft Teams and the script used to tackle each of the scenarios.

The code includes comments so that you can follow along with what is happening. Comments are identified by a hashtag (#).

PowerShell scenario 1: Victor, the IT guy

Victor is the IT guy in his company and his colleagues often ask him to create teams according to internal policies and conventions. To avoid doing this task manually over and over again, Victor has created a PowerShell script that does the process for him.

The following script shows how Victor would do this:

# Define the team settings
$teamName = "Project Y"
$teamDescription = "The new generation of electric skateboards"
$teamOwner = "[email protected]"
$teamVisibility = "Private"
$teamEditMessagesPolicy = $false
$teamDeleteMessagesPolicy...