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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

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Microsoft Viva, the new Employee Experience and Engagement suite of applications provided by Microsoft, was announced as a new concept in February 2021 and has been gradually made available to users through Microsoft Teams.

Viva includes four different modules that combine employee wellbeing, communications, knowledge, and learning resources under the same brand:

  • Viva Connections: The landing page for the corporate intranet in SharePoint from Microsoft Teams.
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  • Viva Insights: A dedicated application for employees and leaders that aims to make everyone's work lives better. Using this application, users are able to better track their...