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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 is a tab?

Tabs allow team members to access tools and content in the context of a channel inside a team. Tabs also allow team members to have conversations in the context of a tab to discuss the content the tab is displaying.

On Microsoft Teams, you will find two types of tabs: the built-in ones that come by default with the application and the custom ones that are added by apps that have been installed on Microsoft Teams, either from the store or manually uploaded.

Tab Scenario #1 – Mary the marketing manager

Mary wants to make sure the advertisements for the campaign are on track and to do this, she’s added a new tab to the channel with Microsoft Planner, along with the tasks of each designer.

Tab Scenario #2 – Geno the basketball coach

Geno continues to prepare for the season. He wants to share the plays and the plan for his practice sessions with the players without printing everything out. Geno has added two tabs to the Pre-Season channel...