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Reimagine Remote Working with Microsoft Teams

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

Collecting employee ideas through campaigns

The Employee ideas app allows organizations to create and manage idea campaigns to collect employees' ideas. An idea campaign is a category for grouping ideas around common themes. Organizations can benefit from gathering the ideas of employees and grouping them into themes. The Employee ideas app in Microsoft Teams allows organizations to add campaigns to a specific team or across the organization. The best part of this app is that campaigns, ideas, votes, and reviews can all be managed inside Teams itself, without needing to navigate to any other applications such as browsers, email services, or others.

Let's walk through the process of installing and using this app in a Teams channel:

  1. Navigate to the channel of the team that you would like to add this app to and click on the + symbol:

    Figure 3.54 – Adding an app

  2. Search for Employee Ideas in the search bar and click on the Employee ideas app option:

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