Introduction To Microsoft Teams
Introduction To Microsoft Teams
Samridh Bhat
Solution Specialist
Agenda
• Microsoft Teams Introduction
• Microsoft Teams Features
Goals of this Training
• Get an understanding of what Microsoft Teams can do for you
• Highlight some key features to help increase your organizations
productivity
How we work has changed
Quality
Worse decisions due to incomplet
data
Innovation
Discoveries aren’t
leveraged in other areas
Teams and Channels
Helps groups of people get organized with more focused
conversations.
T eams
Teams are the overall group of people working on a project. They can range in size from a small product team to a
larger organization.
Creating Teams
Create teams by adding member individually by email aliases or security groups. Every new team will have a default
favorite channel called General, you can use it for whatever you like.
Channels
Teams are made up of Channels, each covering a different topic. Only favorited Channels will show up in the left
pane, other channels will show up if there is a notification for you. The remaining channels can be accessed by
clicking more.
Creating
Channels
Channels are open to everyone on the Team, so anyone can drop in and see what everyone is talking about.
Channels can be created to cover Topics, Departments, or Projects.
Productive Chat
Threaded conversations
Threaded
Conversations
In channels you can reply directly to a message, keeping the discussion easy to follow.
Mention T eam Members
You can also bring people’s attention by @Mentioning them, just type the @ symbol before their name. And if you
admin enables it, you can @mention your whole team or any channel.
Ways to Express Y ourself
Everything from emojis to GIFs to stickers and memes that you can actually edit, are there for you to showcase the
personality of your team and add some flare to the conversation.
Private Conversations
Open team channels are great for collaboration, but sometimes
you need to talk privately
Cha
t
By selecting Chat along the left side of the application, you can have private conversations with your teammates.
Group
Chat
Simple click the new chat icon and type the names of the people you want to add to a conversation. You can add up
to nine people in a group chat.
Sharing
Files
You can add files from your computer or OneDrive for Business account
Meetings
Microsoft Teams makes it easy for people in a channel to go from a
group conversation to a meeting.
Start a Meeting
In a channel conversation, click the Meet Now icon in the compose box. Or keep all the context of an existing
conversation by clicking the Meet Now icon in the reply box.
Notify Team Members of the
Meeting
Once you’re in, you can invite the people from your conversation, or anyone from the team by clicking on their
name.
Find a
Meeting
While you’re waiting for people to join, other team members who follow the channel will see that a meeting has
started. They don’t need to join the meeting to see who’s in attendance.
Join a
Meeting
One click, and you are in the meeting.
Ful Bleed
Video
Leveraging the full width of the screen, the audio and video experience make remote team members feel like they’re
really part of the conversation.
Share your
screen
Once you are in the meeting, you can share you desktop. The content layout lets everyone see what’s being shared.
Along with people’s facial expressions.
Meeting
History
Once the meeting is done, people who couldn’t join will see that the meeting happened in the context of the
conversation.
Scheduled
Meetings
On demand meetings are great if you need to meet at a moment’s notice, but what if you want to schedule a
meeting ahead of time? We’ve got you covered.
Product Videos
For more product information, you can check out the videos below:
• Product Walkthrough:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Microsoft-Teams-Quick-Start-422bf3aa-9ae8-
46f1-83a2-e65720e1a34d?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#ID0EAABAAA=Overview
• Onboard your Teams
https://support.office.com/article/702a2977-e662-4038-bef5-bdf8ee47b17b
• Teams and Channels
https://support.office.com/article/c3d63c10-77d5-4204-a566-53ddcf723b46
• Use Tabs
https://support.office.com/article/7350a03e-017a-4a00-a6ae-1c9fe8c497b3
Product Videos (Continued)
For more product information, you can check out the videos below:
• Productive Conversations
https://support.office.com/article/99d33aaa-0743-47c6-a476-eb0a24abcb7e
• Private Conversations and Calling
https://support.office.com/article/a864b052-5e4b-4ccf-b046-2e26f40e21b5
• Meet now
https://support.office.com/article/26e06837-853d-4df1-a729-06bf700d4ecf
• Schedule a meeting
https://support.office.com/article/ba44d0fd-da3c-4541-a3eb-a868f5e2b137
Thank you