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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

Understanding public and private teams

When creating a new team, you have the option to make it public or private, but before making that decision you need to be aware of the differences between the types.

A public team is discoverable to all members of an organization and is listed in the Teams gallery.

A public team scenario: Peter, the office manager

Peter is responsible for managing the company office in Portugal, so he can do this more effectively and communicate with everyone else. Peter has created a new team for the office where he posts everything relating to it. Anyone working in Portugal or visiting the office can join the team to access things such as the office location and working hours, or simply to ask Peter or any of the other office members for something.

A private team can be discoverable or non-discoverable. To be a member of a team, you need to either be approved or added to the team. If the team is discoverable, you can request to...