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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)

Managing personal apps

Personal apps were designed to boost your productivity, and they will always display content that is tailored to you. Personal apps can be launched from the vertical menu, and they can be configured by you or by the admin to better suit your needs.

The amount of space on the app bar is limited, and if there is no space to display all your apps, they will be shown in a submenu that is revealed when you click on the three dots, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.18: Personal apps

Let's take a look at what each of these mean:

  1. The app bar showing the pinned apps and the to open the More apps menu.
  2. All the personal apps that are not visible in the app bar are shown in this menu.
  3. A group with all the pinned apps that are not displayed in the app bar due to the lack of space.
  4. A group of all the unpinned personal apps that you have available.

    Pro tip

    Personal apps can be displayed with two different...