Book Image

Reimagine Remote Working with Microsoft Teams

By : Sathish Veerapandian, Harsharanjeet Kaur, Ashok Madhvarayan, Sriram Rajamanickam
Book Image

Reimagine Remote Working with Microsoft Teams

By: Sathish Veerapandian, Harsharanjeet Kaur, Ashok Madhvarayan, Sriram Rajamanickam

Overview of this book

The outbreak of the pandemic has forced the world to embrace remote working and the modern style of virtual business. However, end users may find it challenging to cope with this sudden change in working style, not aware of all the features and remote working tools available to make their life easy. Microsoft Teams is an exceptional platform, adopted by many organizations for unified communication and collaboration, and this book will help you to make the most of its capabilities. Complete with step-by-step explanations and screenshots, this book guides you through the topics that you'll find useful in your daily use of Teams. You'll learn how to manage your teams and projects with Microsoft Teams in a structured and organized way. The book provides hands-on information with a focus on the end user side to help corporate users to increase productivity and become a Microsoft Teams superuser. Finally, you'll explore the most effective ways of using the app with best practices and tips and tricks for making the most of the features available for your scenario. By the end of this Microsoft Teams book, you'll have mastered Microsoft Teams and be fully equipped as a modern collaboration end user to effectively increase your remote work productivity.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Managing Your Meetings, Projects, and Workforce
5
Section 2 – Collaboration, Events, and Communication
9
Section 3 – All about Security, Client Automation, Teams Etiquette, and Tips and Tricks

Chapter 7: User and Data Security

Security becomes essential when business data or information is shared among users. Keeping track of basic data operations, such as reading or modifying, is vital for compliance auditing. Having said this, we long for a miracle to save us from the manual effort of recording each and every operation in a Teams collaboration.

Through the Microsoft Teams admin center, we can control how Teams works in our organization, from deciding who joins chats and the apps they're allowed to run, to monitoring the content of messages to prevent the sharing of sensitive information. We can also keep track of who performed any file operations. While many of these features and services are enabled by default, others are enabled on a case-by-case basis.

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration tool for users and in this chapter, we will discuss the users of Teams and the data security of data shared among these teams or via third-party tools. In addition to this...