Teams is a collaboration platform that allows users to chat, call, meet, and share files within a team or in private conversations. It offers HD video conferencing, VoIP calling, file sharing during meetings, and meeting transcriptions. Users can schedule and join online meetings, share their screen, apps, or desktop. Teams provides dedicated phone numbers for placing domestic and international calls with features like voicemail and transfer. It integrates with other Microsoft apps and provides 1TB of storage per user.

1. Teams Essentials
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2. Stay connected with chat, calls, and meetings within
your team and in private or small group conversations.
Schedule and join online Teams meetings with HD
video, VoIP, and dial-in audio conferencing options.
Share your files, apps or desktop in online meetings
and review the important moments later with
transcriptions of recorded content.
Have a dedicated phone number for placing and
receiving domestic and international phone calls, with
advances features including voicemail, transfer &
delegation
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• Workspace chat
• Meetings
• File storage
• Application integration

3. What is Teams?
• Teams is available to users with Microsoft 365 / Office Licenses
• Accessed via
• Web browser
• Desktop application
• Mobile app
• One-to-One or group audio / video calls
• Calls can be scheduled and recorded
• Screens, links and files can be shared during a call
• Each user has 1TB of storage
• 99.9% SLA uptime

4. Teams on the Web

5. Teams on the Desktop
• Go to the Office home page www.office.com
• In the top right corner click the ‘Install Office’ button
• When the installation is complete place shortcuts on your
desktop to those apps you will use most often
• Double Click the Teams icon

6. Teams on Mobile
• Go to the app store for your device
• App Store
• Google Play
• Download the mobile app onto your mobile phone or tablet
• When the installation is complete tap the Teams icon

7. Teams in Teams

8. Workspace Chat
When you create a Team, you get:
• A Teams chat for communicating;
• A Teams wiki for collecting notes and knowledge;
• A SharePoint site collection
• A OneNote notebook
• A Plan in Planner;
• A Stream video portal;
• A Power BI workspace
• An Outlook email inbox
• A shared Outlook calendar

9. File Storage
Teams collaboration
Document collaboration
Easy access & visibility for all
Files stored in SharePoint (files in
Chat stored in OneDrive)
Teams Chat
Sharepoint (document storage) Onedrive

10. Teams Page
• We will look at the Desktop App as each is similar in format
App Bar
New Conversation
Tabs
Teams
Join / Create
Search Bar
Start
Meeting

11. Apps Bar
Activity: This section holds notifications for anything related to one of the
teams that you have joined
Chat: for instant message style conversations with one or more colleagues
Teams: Chats, documents, calendars, etc related to different teams /
projects
Calendar: Outlook calendar
Calls: Audio or video internet calls
Files: All files related to each team and shared between team members.
Communities (Yammer): Social media style, not usually work related.

12. App integration

13. Meetings

14. Meetings

15. Meetings

16. Thank you
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