Quick Introduction To Microsoft Teams Offering in Office 365

Sriram Varadarajan
 
Solution Architect
November 25, 2016
 
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Microsoft Teams is a tool that is more focused for teams (as the name suggests) within organization. We can do the following with MS team

1. Chat (Video, Text and screen sharing)

2. Share Files (Excel, word, PPT, One note)

3. Schedule meeting and track the meeting

You can download the client from: https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads (we also have a APP)

This is how the client looks like

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What is CHANNEL?

Channel is a way to organize team, you can create channel and do a specific conversation, file sharing around the same.

When you create a TEAM a default Channel gets’ created (General)

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You can create your own channel but clicking CREATE MORE CHANNEL.

You can share FILE using TEAM (when you create a TEAM, a SharePoint TEAM sites gets created at the background and all your files resides in it)

You can also be consuming the following service within the TEAM:

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You can track all your latest Activity and the meeting with in TEAM.

TEAM for ADMIN:

Team is integrated with Office group

To enable/disable TEAM

You need to get into https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/Settings/ServicesAndAddIns

Select Microsoft Teams in it

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You can restrict a lot from here; be it meeting, call and message.

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Sriram Varadarajan
 
Solution Architect
 
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Sriram is a Technology Evangelist with 15+ years experience in Microsoft Technologies. He is an enterprise architect working for large pharmaceutical organization which has presence globally with largest Microsoft implementation ...read more
 

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