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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)

Learning how to use PowerShell from examples

In this section of the book, you will find four examples of how PowerShell can be used to automate tasks within Microsoft Teams and the script used to solve each of the scenarios.

The code includes comments so that you can follow along with what is happening. Comments are identified by a hashtag (#). For better readability of the code, the comments only include a number, while the comment description is provided after the code section.

Example 1: Victor

Victor is the IT guy in his company and oftentimes, his colleagues ask him to create teams according to internal policies and conventions. To avoid doing this task manually over and over again, Victor has created a PowerShell script. This includes the following:

  1. Team settings.
  2. Team default channels.
  3. Team default members.
  4. Establishing a connection to Microsoft Teams: Using this cmdlet without parameters will open a login popup and will authenticate you in your...