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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

Microsoft Viva Insights

Unlike the first two Viva applications, Microsoft Viva Insights is available through Microsoft Teams only and was designed to improve your productivity and wellbeing during a work day.

Viva Insights can be seen as a personal assistant inside of Microsoft Teams that shows you relevant information based on the things you have said to others and what you have done in other Microsoft 365 applications like Outlook.

Available as a personal application in Microsoft Teams, with Viva Insights you will be able to do the following:

  1. Stay connected: The AI-based system allows you to stay on top of collaborative work with your colleagues, with suggestions for meeting assistance.
  2. Protect time: This feature allows you to easily protect time in your calendar so you can have time for yourself to work on your own tasks.
  3. Send praise: You will be able to recognize the work of your colleagues by sending direct praise to them. This can be sent to a...