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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 team creation governance

Governance is something you should plan carefully. If you have an administrator role, make sure you define a set of rules and configure Teams the way you want ahead of time.

This is no easy task and it will always depend on each individual scenario. You should keep in mind that if you leave everything open, Teams can quickly become a wild west with hundreds of teams and channels that don't make sense. On the other hand, if you adopt a restrictive policy, you may lose users and they will eventually look for alternatives to Microsoft Teams (most likely outside of the Microsoft environment).

This section of the book shows you where you can find the teams and channels features that you will be able to adjust to reach a balance on your Microsoft Teams tenant.

On Microsoft Teams, there is no option to disable the creation of new teams. However, it is possible to disable the creation of Office 365 groups—but it is not recommended...