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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

What is a channel?

A Teams channel is a section inside of a team that helps you organize conversations, files, and applications inside a container. By default, all teams are created with the General channel, which, by default, includes the conversations tab, files, and wiki.

Channels are public by default, but if it has been enabled by the administrator, it is also possible to create private or shared channels. Private and shared channels will be explained in detail in Chapter 5, Private vs Public vs Shared: Teams and Channels.

Channel scenario #1: Mary, the marketing manager

Mary is the marketing manager for a multinational company, leading a global marketing team currently working on a worldwide campaign for the holidays. She is working with the company designers to create advertisements for the campaign. To avoid distracting other members and to keep the information about this topic centralized, Mary has created a new channel inside the team. In the...