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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

Managing Microsoft Teams templates as an administrator

As has already been described, Microsoft Teams includes a predefined set of templates that might not be useful for your organization, but there may be scenarios in which you would like a template to streamline the processes inside an organization. As an administrator, you will be able to manage the existing templates and have permission to create new ones that will become available to all your users.

Take a look at the following use case for a Teams template:

Custom template scenario: Luis, the intern trainer

Luis is responsible for training all the company interns every 6 months. To share training materials and engage with the interns, Luis has created a team in Microsoft Teams with several channels structured according to the training plans. The first training program delivered with Microsoft Teams was a success and now Luis wants to replicate it. Instead of manually creating the same team every 6 months...