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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

Live events on Microsoft Teams

Live events on Microsoft Teams are an extension of meetings and should be used every time you have the need to broadcast to a large audience. Meetings on Microsoft Teams only support 1,000 attendees (once this number is exceeded, meetings support up to 20,000 users in listen-only mode), so if you are planning an online event that exceeds this number, you must use live events instead, which can support up to 10,000 attendees.

Live events are, by definition, a one-to-many form of communication since the presenters have the rights to speak and share content, and all the other attendees can only listen and interact with the presenters through a moderated Q&A format.

Live event profiles

By reading the live events introduction, you can probably tell that it would be too complicated for a single person to manage everything that happens during the event—in which case, you are right: when looking at live events, you will find...