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Hands-On Microsoft Teams

By : João Ferreira
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Hands-On Microsoft Teams

By: João Ferreira

Overview of this book

Microsoft Teams is a platform for unified communication in modern workplaces. It not only enables effective communication, but also helps you manage your resources through its integration with various Microsoft Office 365 services. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the platform, getting you up to speed in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials, and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you how to use Teams in the best possible way. Starting with the basic concepts that will help you collaborate on Teams, this book takes you through expert techniques for creating and managing teams. A dedicated section also features industry practices to help enhance collaboration in modern workplaces. In later chapters, you’ll explore Microsoft services such as SharePoint, PowerApps, Power Automate, and learn how they interact with Microsoft Teams. You’ll also get to grips with dealing with permissions and security issues in managing private and public teams and channels. Along the way, you’ll discover practical scenarios that will help you improve the collaboration in your organization and increase productivity by using Teams features. By the end of this book, you’ll have hands-on experience of using Microsoft Teams, along with the skills you need to improve the way people collaborate in your organization.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

What does Microsoft Teams look like?

Now that you have Microsoft Teams installed on one or more devices, it is time to take a look at the application layout and learn how it is organized.

The following screenshot represents the web or desktop version of Microsoft Teams. All the major components are identified with numbers:

Figure 1.4: Main window of Microsoft Teams

Let’s take a look at the different components, all of which have been numbered in the preceding screenshot:

  1. App bar: By default, the app bar shows Activity, Chat, Teams, Calendar, Calls, and Files. These are the main default features of Microsoft Teams. This bar can be customized, and a Microsoft Teams administrator can add more apps to it and define the position of new apps. However, the default apps cannot be removed. If a new app is added to the first six positions, the default app is moved to the submenu, which can be accessed through the icon.
  2. Left pane: The context...