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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)

Meetings in Microsoft Teams

As a substitute for Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams has a lot of calling and meeting functionalities that extend communication to a new level in a modern workplace.

A meeting in Microsoft Teams can start spontaneously by just clicking on a button. It can also be planned ahead of time and scheduled by generating a meeting request that can be sent to other participants.

In the following section, you will learn how to schedule a meeting and how to use all the options to get the best out of the media functionalities of Microsoft Teams.

How to schedule a Microsoft Teams meeting

Meetings can be scheduled directly from the Microsoft Teams application or from the desktop version of Microsoft Outlook if the Teams add-on has been installed on your computer and allowed by your administrator.

To schedule a meeting from Microsoft Teams, do the following:

  1. Open the Calendar. The app is available in the App Bar.
  2. Click on the purple icon...