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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)
1
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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed group chats, which allow you to message multiple recipients in Teams without creating a channel. Stream allows you to create enterprise-class video content for your organization. Yammer is an enterprise social media platform and provides external federation options with Teams. Sway helps you to build interactive Sways, which is the new, modern way of building presentations. These tools are highly effective once you start using them as these products are tightly integrated to enable effective user communication.

In the next chapter, you will learn more about organizing virtual events via Teams, where you can explore webinar options available in Teams, live events, and lobby configuration, which are relatively new services added to the Microsoft Teams feature list.