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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

Overview of Meetings in Microsoft Teams

In Chapter 1, Taking a Tour of Microsoft Teams, we introduced the evolutionary Microsoft Teams platform. Two of the key functionalities of Microsoft Teams are video conferencing and its meeting capabilities. Microsoft Teams meetings allow basic communication between two or more parties by providing audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities. Teams allows users to initiate and participate in device-to-device calls by using either a PC client or the Teams mobile app. Additionally, participants can chat with each other within the meeting, take meeting notes, share content such as files and whiteboards, invite other participants, change background filters, and more.

In the following figure, we can see a Microsoft Teams meeting, with the meeting controls on the top right:

Figure 5.1 – The Microsoft Teams meeting view

As discussed in Chapter 1, Taking a Tour of Microsoft Teams, you can get to this view through...