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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 PowerShell is

PowerShell is a command-line shell that gives you access to a framework to automate and configure processes on computers.

First released in 2006, it is mainly used on Windows due to the technical architecture that was used in the earlier versions of PowerShell. It recently became available for other platforms, such as Linux and macOS, but most of the modules available do not support these operating systems.

The release of cross-platform PowerShell introduced two versions, Windows PowerShell and PowerShell, each built with a different architecture. To learn more about this topic, I recommend you have a look at the official Microsoft documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats-new/differences-from-windows-powershell?view=powershell-7.1.

Instructions on PowerShell are given through the use of cmdlets. Each cmdlet is responsible for the execution of a specific operation. Cmdlets can be combined into PowerShell scripts...