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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 PowerShell: A Tool for Automation

In this chapter, we will cover the PowerShell module available to automate processes with Microsoft Teams. This is the most advanced chapter of the book and will teach you how you can optimize administrative tasks associated with managing Teams.

PowerShell can be very handy and save you a lot of time while managing teams, channels, users' apps, or even policies. In this chapter, you will cover the following topics:

  • What PowerShell is and how you can use it
  • Installing Microsoft Teams PowerShell
  • Cmdlets available in the Microsoft Teams module
  • Learning how to use PowerShell from examples