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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

Microsoft Viva Connections

Viva Connections brings your SharePoint intranet to Microsoft Teams and, at the time of writing, is the only Viva component fully available to be used in Microsoft Teams. It is also the only one that does not require an extra license for each user, being available for free to everyone in the organization.

With Connections, your users will be able to access the data stored on the intranet, consume news, and access a feed of information tailored for each user specifically, based on their activities and preferences.

The following screenshot illustrates Microsoft Viva Connections, with all its main components highlighted and described below:

Figure 7.2.1: Microsoft Viva Connections in Microsoft Teams – Desktop

  1. Viva Connections application: Viva Connections is a personal application in Microsoft Teams and is accessible from the personal menu bar. The position of the icon is just representative and can be manually adjusted by...