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Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions

By : Aaron Guilmette, Yura Lee, Grant Oliasani, Angel Aviles
Book Image

Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions

By: Aaron Guilmette, Yura Lee, Grant Oliasani, Angel Aviles

Overview of this book

Microsoft Teams is an invaluable tool that can integrate various Microsoft products into a single convenient hub. But making the most of it often requires expert help and hours spent on calls and live chats. If you’d rather have all the information you need to make the most of Teams in one place, then this book is for you. Written by two Microsoft technical specialists who have spent years helping clients find the best way to utilize Teams, this book will help you understand Teams as a whole — from architecture and collaboration through to apps and voice. You’ll study the platform from the perspective of the end user as well as the administrator, gaining insights and learning from real-life examples. You’ll tackle adopting, implementing, and administering Teams efficiently, which will help you realize its full potential. From setup and deployment to modernizing your organization’s chat and voice infrastructure, you’ll get plenty of useful and actionable tips as you progress. By the end of your journey through this book, you’ll be able to design and implement the most important and exciting aspects of Microsoft Teams help your organization work more efficiently.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Part 1: Collaboration and Apps
Free Chapter
2
Chapter 1: Taking a Tour of Microsoft Teams
6
Part 2: Meetings
10
Part 3: Bots and Development
14
Part 4: Voice
19
Part 5: Administration

Approval templates

Beginning in April 2021, Approval templates were released to public preview. Is this now complete, as it's 2022? Consider updating if so to keep this relevant.

Approval templates let teams and business owners deploy standardized approvals throughout their organization. Templates integrate functionality from both Approvals and Microsoft Forms and provide reuse capabilities for everyone in the organization.

Teams provides a set of popular approval template forms. To access them, launch the Approvals app, select the ellipsis next to + New template, and then select Manage templates, as shown here:

Figure 2.10 – Manage templates

As shown in the following screenshot, templates have scopes – that is, areas where they may be available as used or applied. Some templates may be Org wide, while others may only be available to be used by individual users or in teams:

Figure 2.11 – Template...