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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 shared channels

Shared channels were designed by Microsoft to make the collaboration between different organizations easier. By using a shared channel, users will not need to switch tenants and the notifications from a channel in an external Teams organization will be displayed in your organization's Teams tenant.

Shared channels were announced in March 2021 as part of Microsoft Teams Connect. At the time of writing, this feature is not yet available and is expected to arrive in Q4 of 2021. Everything explained in this section of the book is based on the official announcements made by Microsoft and subject to change until the final release.

Let's take a look at a scenario to help us understand:

Shared channel scenario: Maximo, the basketball team manager

Maximo is a basketball team manager responsible for the communication between sponsors and the team. Communication through Microsoft Teams has not been going smoothly and...