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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 tab?

In Teams, tabs allow team members to access applications and content in the context of a channel inside a team. Tabs also allow team members to have conversations in the context of a tab to discuss the content the tab is displaying.

On Microsoft Teams, you will find two types of tabs: the built-in ones that come by default with the application and the custom ones that are added by applications that can be installed on Microsoft Teams, either from the store or manually uploaded.

Tab scenario #1: Mary, the marketing manager

Mary wants to make sure the advertisements for the campaign are on track, and to do this she has added a new tab to the channel with the Tasks by Planner and To Do applications, showing the tasks of each designer.

Tab scenario #2: Geno, the basketball coach

As Geno continues to prepare for the season, he wants to share the schedule for the practice sessions with the players without printing everything out...