Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app, a hub for teamwork. It’s an app for people and teams to come together, stay connected, and get things done, across work, home, school, and on the go. Teams allow to pull together a team and connect with colleagues through real-time messaging and engaging and inclusive meetings. Channels can be used to share files and data, manage tasks, and collaborate on documents with people inside and outside an organization. All these features can be done while staying secure and compliant. Also, Teams allow adding notes, websites, and integrating with other apps and processes a team uses.
Microsoft Teams functionality:
- Teams are a collection of people, content, and tools surrounding different projects and outcomes within an organization.
- Channels (Standard, Private, Shared) are dedicated sections within a team to keep conversations and content organized by specific topics, projects, and disciplines.
- Chat and instant messaging let tams work together, without cluttering up your email and keeping it clear for important messages.
- Meetings in Teams include audio, video, and screen sharing for up to 1,000 people. View-only capabilities are for participants over 1,000 up to 20,000.
- Webinars are structured meetings where presenters and participants have clear roles, often used for training purposes or sales and marketing lead generation scenarios. Participants up to 1,000 have fully interactive capabilities.
- Live events are structured meetings that enable your organization to schedule and produce events that stream to large online audiences, up to 20,000 participants.
- Collaborative apps are solutions integrated into Teams. For example: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate etc.
Reference Materials
Microsoft Learn: Introduction to Microsoft Teams for admins
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