A PPT on Collaboration in Microsoft Teams

1. Collaboration in Microsoft Teams
Don Daubert
Covenant Technology Partners
Twitter @sharepointroxs
ddaubert@mailctp.com

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3. Teams Overview
• What is Microsoft Teams? A chat and collaboration
platform for Microsoft Office 365 customers designed to
simplify group work
• Why does Microsoft Teams matter? As well as the chat-
based communication, Teams' integration with other
Microsoft services allows for shared files and calendars,
collaborative editing, and easy switching between voice,
video and text chat. It is now Microsoft’s primary
collaboration tool. It will replace Skype For Business
• Who does Microsoft Teams affect? The service is
available to most subscribers to Microsoft cloud-based
Office 365 suite.
• When and where is Microsoft Teams available? Teams
is available to Office 365 customers across 181 markets
worldwide and in 19 languages as of the 14 March, 2017.
• How do I get Microsoft Teams? Enable it in the Office
365 admin center

4. What can it do?
• Everything
• Improve your group based collaboration by
tying all services together.
• All about efficiency

5. Seriously
• O365 Group based
• Persistent chat, Group Chat, 1 on 1 Chat, Threaded
• Web Meetings (Outlook Integrated)
• Guest Access
• Voice Calls
• Video calls
• File Collaboration and Storage (SharePointODFB)
• 3rd Party Connectors
• Incorporated with almost every other O365 service –
• Delve, SharePoint, ODFB, Planner, Power BI, OneNote
• Mobile Access
• Updated almost weekly basis

6. How to do stuff?
• Desktop Client vs Web Browser
• Desktop - Full Features
• Web – Limited
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/MicrosoftTeams/get-clients
• Setup a Team (Hub)
• Departments - IT, HR, Accounting, Marketing etc
• Users vs Admins
• Setup Team Channels
• Department
• Projects
• Teams

7. Deeper Dive…Demo
• Interface
• Chatting
• Emailing
• Connectors
• Documents
• Meetings
• Planner

8. Details…
• App, Bots, Connectors
• https://www.cwps.com/blog/abcs-of-microsoft-teams
• Guest Access Checklist
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/microsoftteams/guest-access-checklist
• Governance
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/microsoftteams/plan-teams-governance

9. Questions?