The document is a presentation by Greg McMurray introducing Microsoft Teams, highlighting the need for organizational access and various methods for connecting to the platform. It covers key features such as chat, meetings, and file integration, as well as the security aspects of Teams being part of Office 365. Additionally, it emphasizes the extensibility of the platform through custom apps, bots, and connectors, while offering resources for further learning.

1. Intro to Microsoft Teams
- Greg McMurray -
Utah SharePoint User Group – January 2017
Photo Credit: CC 2.0 Generic - Garret via https://www.flickr.com/photos/countylemonade/7169130178

2. First Step – You Need to Request Access
▪ Microsoft Teams is currently limited to accounts within an organization
▪ External sharing and collaborating is high on their list
▪ Luckily, the Utah SharePoint User Group has an Office 365 Tenant!
▪ All members / attendees are welcome to request an account:
▪ Excel Online Form: www.utsharepoint.com/access
▪ Note: You may want to use an InPrivate or Incognito browser tab to avoid conflicts with other
Office 365 credentials you might use

3. Methods of Accessing Microsoft Teams
▪ Via the Web
▪ https://teams.microsoft.com/
▪ IE 11+, Edge 12+, Firefox 47+, Chrome 31+
▪ Desktop Application
▪ http://teams.microsoft.com/downloads
▪ OS Requirements: Windows 7+ and Max OS X 10.10+
▪ Mobile Applications
▪ Android: https://aka.ms/androidteams
▪ iOS: https://aka.ms/iosteams
▪ Windows Phone: https://aka.ms/wpteams

4. Greg McMurray
▪ Currently Business Solutions Developer at WECC
▪ Manager at Aritus Computer Services for 18 years
▪ Aerospace, Branding & Marketing, Energy, Healthcare, Software
▪ Active in many local user groups
▪ Find me online
▪ @goyuix
▪ https://www.linkedin.com/in/goyuix
▪ https://stackoverflow.com/cv/goyuix - top 3% of users

5. Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC)
▪ Non-profit to ensure the reliability of the western interconnection
▪ Approved Regional Entity by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
▪ Create, monitor & enforce reliability standards
▪ Publish various models and independent perspective
▪ Covers 14 western states, 2 Canadian provinces and Baja Mexico

6. A few words on asynchronous communications
▪ A lot of communication – and collaboration happens asynchronously today
▪ Email
▪ Text messages
▪ Microsoft Teams
▪ SharePoint, Yammer, Skype for Business, etc…
▪ Some tools are better for real-time or near real-time communication
▪ Me Personally:
▪ Email: Definitely expect to wait. Waits are getting longer too.
▪ Text: Shorter waits than email, though possibly not immediate either
▪ Chat: Pretty quick replies typically, but no guarantees
▪ Where does the Teams functionality fit in with your communications styles?

7. What is Microsoft Teams
▪ Collaborative chat-based environment
▪ Enabled as a license for users in an organization
▪ Similar to Power BI and other services
▪ Licensing is a new feature enabled in January 2017 – prior it was org wide setting
▪ Where does this fit in?
▪ Outlook: Calendar and Email
▪ SharePoint: Sites and Content Management
▪ Skype: Voice, Chat, Meetings / Conferencing
▪ Yammer: Enterprise Social
▪ Teams: All of the above?

8. Security and Privacy of Data
▪ Teams is part of Office 365 – inherits much of the same benefits
▪ Tier C compliant: ISO 27001 & 27018, EUMC, SSAE16, SOC I & II, HIPAA, FERPA, etc.
▪ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trustcenter/compliance/
▪ Multi-factor authentication, encryption of data in transit as well as at rest
▪ Teams is currently restricted to organizational accounts
▪ Future enhancement is to allow sharing with external accounts too
▪ Special Note: The data resides in the data center region where you tenant is created

9. The Basics
▪ Five Major Functions / Features
▪ Activity: What has happened recently / did you potentially miss a notification
▪ Chat: Smaller groups – more focused. Often 1:1 conversations.
▪ Teams: The big feature with tabs for different conversations / collaborations
▪ Meetings: Shows your calendar, setup team meetings to include Teams
▪ Files: Brings in files from OneDrive, SharePoint, etc.
▪ Important Reminder: New Team = New Office 365 Group
▪ Which also tends to bring along OneNote, OneDrive, SharePoint, etc.
▪ You can also add Teams functionality to existing Groups or Distribution Lists
▪ Warning: This will create an Office 365 Group from your DL

10. Channels
▪ Every team gets a default General channel
▪ Channels are where a lot of the action happens
▪ Each channel has tabs
▪ Conversations – Chat (plain and rich text), Attachments, Cards
▪ Video is available from Desktop Apps – coming soon to web clients
▪ Files – typically from the SharePoint site for the group / OneDrive
▪ Notes – shared OneNote notebook, stored on O365 Group team site
▪ Custom Tabs – things like Planner, Power BI, SharePoint, etc.
▪ Connectors and Bots – bring external info in. More on these in a bit.

11. Extensibility
▪ Packages are basically zip archives with a manifest file that describes the service and
necessary files. Similar to add-ins for other Office products.
▪ Warning: During the preview, custom code expires after 29 days
▪ Helpful Links:
▪ Getting Started Center: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/
▪ Custom Tabs: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/tabs
▪ Custom Bots: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/bots
▪ Custom Connectors: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/connectors
▪ Great videos on Channel 9 showing a quick intro to developing for Teams. Shown as
part of 2016 Connect() conference.

12. Additional Resources
▪ Microsoft Teams Help
▪ Administration, Desktop / Web / Mobile, and Training Videos
▪ https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Microsoft-Teams-Help-23156c0c-2c6e-49dd-8b7b-
7c564b76508c?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1
▪ Frequently Asked Questions
▪ https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Frequently-asked-questions-about-Microsoft-Teams-
%E2%80%93-Admin-Help-05cbe533-2181-4e95-a4b0-52cd7695fafc?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
▪ MSDN Reference for Microsoft Teams
▪ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/
▪ Microsoft Bot Framework
▪ https://docs.botframework.com/en-us/

13. More Questions?
▪ I am sure you have lots
▪ Something to consider: Would you like to do a deeper dive on some of these topics like
building a bot in a future user group meeting?
▪ Let’s get to the live demo – and feel free to keep using it after today
▪ Discussion: Should we have team channels for user group meetings / SharePoint Saturday?
Feel free to reach out to me
▪ Twitter: @goyuix
▪ LinkedIn: linked.com/in/goyuix

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