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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

Managing personal apps

Personal apps were designed to boost your productivity, and they will always display content that is tailored to you. Personal apps can be launched from the vertical menu and can be configured by you or the administrator to better suit your needs.

The amount of space on the app bar is limited, however, and if there is no space to display all your apps, they will be shown in a submenu that is revealed when you click on the three dots, as shown in Figure 9.3.1.

Figure 9.3.1: Microsoft Teams personal applications

Let's take a look at what each of these numbered areas is:

  1. The app bar showing the pinned apps and the to open the More apps menu.
  2. Personal apps that are not visible in the app bar are shown in this menu.
  3. A group with all the pinned apps that are not displayed in the app bar due to the lack of space.
  4. A group of all the unpinned personal apps that you have available, organized either alphabetically...