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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)

Live events on Microsoft Teams

Live events on Microsoft Teams are an extension of meetings and should be used every time you have the need to broadcast for a large audience. Meetings on Microsoft Teams only supports 250 attendees. If you are planning a meeting that exceeds this number, you must use live events instead, which supports up to 10,000 attendees.

Live events are, by definition, a one-to-many communication since the presenters have the rights to speak and share content and all the other attendees can only listen and interact with the presenters through the moderated Q&A.

Live event profiles

By reading the live events introduction, you can probably tell that it might be too complicated for a single person to manage everything that happens during the event. If you have had this thought, then you are right: when looking at live events, you will find four different profiles:

  • Organizer: This is the person who is responsible for scheduling and inviting presenters...