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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)

Understanding public and private teams

When creating a new team, you have the option to make it public or private, but before making that decision you need to be aware of the differences between both types.

A public team is discoverable to all members of an organization and is listed in the Teams gallery.

A public team scenario—Peter the office manager

Peter is responsible for managing the company office in Portugal. To do it better and to communicate with others, Peter has created a new team for the office where he posts everything related to it. Anyone working in Portugal or visiting the office can join the team to access things such as the location and working hours, or simply to ask Peter or any of the other office members something.

A private team can be discoverable or non-discoverable. Also, to be a member of a team, you need to either be approved or added to the team. If the team is discoverable, you can request to join it; if it's non-discoverable,...