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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 apps in Microsoft Teams

One of the main advantages of Microsoft Teams is the apps that you can install to enhance its features and improve the user experience of the application. Apps open up a wide variety of possibilities and configurations that allow you to tailor Microsoft Teams exactly according to your needs, following your own procedures and workflows.

Using apps, you will be able to bring to Microsoft Teams information and data that is stored in other Microsoft or third-party applications. This is important in the modern workplace environment because it allows you to continue working in the same environment without the need to switch between applications.

According to the study The total economic impact of Microsoft Teams from April 2019:

"Information workers save 15 minutes per day and firstline workers 5 minutes per day by having features and information sources available within Teams, rather than switching between apps. Time savings...