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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

Meetings in Microsoft Teams

As a substitute for Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams has a lot of calling and meeting functionalities that extend communication to a new level in the modern workplace. A meeting in Microsoft Teams can be started spontaneously by clicking on the Meet now button, or it can be planned ahead of time and scheduled by generating a meeting request that is then sent to other participants.

In the following section, you will learn how to schedule a meeting, and how to use all the available options to get the best out of the media functionalities of Microsoft Teams.

Schedule a meeting using the Calendar application

Meetings can be scheduled directly from the Microsoft Teams application, or from Microsoft Outlook. In the Outlook web version, the option to create a new Teams meeting is available by default; in the desktop version, however, it requires the Teams add-on to be installed on your computer.

To schedule a meeting from Microsoft Teams, do...