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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

Planner in Teams

As we mentioned previously, Microsoft Planner is a lightweight task management application for teams to organize projects in an easy, user-friendly way. Planner is a Kanban-style tool that contains a board for moving tasks between categories.

In Planner terminology, a plan is made up of a group of people (the members of the plan) and tasks organized into buckets. In this chapter, we are going to be focusing on using the Planner app inside of an already existing Team that manages the Plan's membership.

Let's learn how to add a plan to an existing Microsoft Team.

Adding Planner to your Team

Adding the Planner application to your Microsoft Team is the first step in creating a plan. This can be done through the Teams desktop or web application.

To add Planner to your team, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Microsoft Teams application.
  2. Navigate to the team you wish to add a plan to.
  3. On the tab bar, click the + button to add a tab or...