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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

Teams Templates

Microsoft Teams templates are predefined Teams structures designed around a specific business logic that accelerate the creation of a team, following an organization's predefined conventions for teams and channels.

Each Microsoft Teams template has a set of predefined channels and tabs with applications that will be added to your newly created team. Despite being prebuilt, as a team owner you still have the possibility of defining the name of your team, as well as refining it further by adjusting the original template structure through adding or removing channels and applications.

Teams templates make the life of administrators and end users a lot easier with the automatic creation of channels and tabs; on top of that, they also help in the adoption of the platform, as the creation of a new team from a template doesn't break the momentum that getting an empty team sometimes does.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

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