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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)
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Section 1 – Managing Your Meetings, Projects, and Workforce
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Section 2 – Collaboration, Events, and Communication
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Section 3 – All about Security, Client Automation, Teams Etiquette, and Tips and Tricks

Familiarizing yourself with Azure Boards and Utilizing them for projects

Azure Boards helps us to plan, track, discuss, and follow up on any tasks across our teams. It might be useful for us in tracking our work logs with a Kanban board, as well as being a place to tag and communicate critical ideas among the team. If your team is suited to agile work planning, then Azure Boards can be a great choice for assigning and tracking tasks. We could easily build our own board and backlog, run a daily sprint, and keep tracking our important work.

Prerequisites:

  • To create a work item, you must be a contributor to the Azure Boards project. If you don't have a project yet, you can sign up and create a project. For details, see Start using Azure Boards.
  • To create subscriptions in a Teams channel for work item events, you must be a member of the Azure Boards Project Administrators group or Team Administrators group. To get added, see Set permissions on the project...