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Hands-On Microsoft Teams - Second Edition

By : João Ferreira
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Hands-On Microsoft Teams - Second Edition

By: João Ferreira

Overview of this book

Microsoft Teams is a permanent fixture in the modern workplace, but many of its productivity-boosting features go unnoticed or unused. Hands-On Microsoft Teams shows you how to use Teams to its full potential through easy-to-follow practical tutorials. This guide to mastering Teams explores the platform in comprehensive detail and how it interacts with the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem to help you work efficiently and manage your resources. You'll get to grips with core functionality like setting up and managing teams, channels, chats, tabs, and meetings. You'll also learn to get the best out of Teams by adding custom apps, integrating with Microsoft 365, using PowerShell automation, and exploring useful settings you didn't know existed. Along the way, you'll be shown various real-world scenarios and how to implement solutions for them in Teams that will increase your productivity. Whether you're an administrator, manager, or team member, by the end of this book you'll be confident in using everything Microsoft Teams has to offer.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Microsoft Teams Basics

Microsoft Teams is a collaborative tool released by Microsoft in 2017 that is transforming the way people work and communicate with each other. With an ongoing global pandemic, Microsoft Teams usage has grown exponentially, reaching more than 250 million active users as of July 2021.

Workers spend part of their day switching between platforms to chat with their peers, accessing project documentation, scheduling meetings, sharing files, and more. All these tasks can be centralized in a single workspace, and that workspace is Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft has a lot of experience with communication and collaborative tools, and Microsoft Teams is an evolution of their previous solutions. Teams inherits all the experience and know-how acquired from other Microsoft enterprise solutions over the last 20 years, and is the natural successor of Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business.

If you are reading this book, you have probably asked yourself, why Microsoft...