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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how to use Microsoft Teams to chat with your peers in multiple contexts.

A written message can be much more than a simple piece of text. This chapter has demonstrated how you can use Microsoft Teams to communicate better and improve the efficiency with which daily tasks are carried out.

In a work environment, conversations cannot all be handled in the same way, and Microsoft Teams gives you the flexibility to manage them according to the environment and policies in which you conduct them. From one-to-one chats to public or private conversations, with internal and external users, Teams offers you multiple options to make your workday more structured and productive.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to use Microsoft Teams' calling functionality, along with other tools that you can use to complement everything you have learned so far.