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Hands-On Microsoft Teams

By : João Ferreira
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Hands-On Microsoft Teams

By: João Ferreira

Overview of this book

Microsoft Teams is a platform for unified communication in modern workplaces. It not only enables effective communication, but also helps you manage your resources through its integration with various Microsoft Office 365 services. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the platform, getting you up to speed in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials, and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you how to use Teams in the best possible way. Starting with the basic concepts that will help you collaborate on Teams, this book takes you through expert techniques for creating and managing teams. A dedicated section also features industry practices to help enhance collaboration in modern workplaces. In later chapters, you’ll explore Microsoft services such as SharePoint, PowerApps, Power Automate, and learn how they interact with Microsoft Teams. You’ll also get to grips with dealing with permissions and security issues in managing private and public teams and channels. Along the way, you’ll discover practical scenarios that will help you improve the collaboration in your organization and increase productivity by using Teams features. By the end of this book, you’ll have hands-on experience of using Microsoft Teams, along with the skills you need to improve the way people collaborate in your organization.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

What is a channel?

A channel is a section inside of a team that helps you organize conversations, files, and tools inside a container.

By default, all teams are created with the General channel, which includes the conversations tab, files, and wiki.

Channels are public by default, but if it's been enabled by the administrator, it is also possible to create private channels. Private channels will be explained in detail in Chapter 5, Public versus Private – Teams and Channels.

Channel Scenario #1 – Mary the marketing manager

Mary is working with the company designers to create advertisements for a campaign. To avoid distracting other members of the team and to keep the information about this topic centralized, Mary has created a new channel.In the new channel, the team members working on the advertisements are doing the following:

• Chatting about the ideas to promote the campaign • Sharing files, either specifications or the design...