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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)

How to use private chats

Private chats can be used to have conversations about topics that are not relevant to an entire team. You can use it to plan your daily tasks with your co-workers or even to schedule a coffee break. All of the content shared in private chats will only be visible to you and the other members of the chat.

Microsoft Teams supports one-to-one and one-to-n private chats (with a limit of 100 users). In this section, we will look at how to use both.

To start a new one-to-one private conversation using Microsoft Teams, follow these steps:

  1. Click on the Chat app in the app bar.
  2. Look for the user in the left pane that you want to chat with and click on their name.
  3. Start your conversation.

Even though this three-step process is the easiest way to start a chat on Microsoft Teams, sometimes the user you want to chat with will not be available in the contacts list. In this case, do the following:

  1. In the top bar of Microsoft Teams, click...