Melissa Hubbard - Mastering Microsoft Teams: End User Guide to Practical Usage, Collaboration, and Governance

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Microsoft Teams is the heart of collaboration and communications within Office 365. As Microsoft Teams has matured over time, it has brought deep integrations with your favorite Office applications and offered ways to integrate with your internal business processes. In order for organizations to fully appreciate Microsoft Teams, end users must have an understanding of how to use its features. To truly appreciate Microsoft Teams and drive user adoption from the start, business owners and administrators should have a firm understanding of how to provide governance and training. With work landscapes changing from being in an office to including more remote working scenarios, the opportunities to connect colleagues, students and teachers, and customers have never been more vital. In this book, all of these scenarios are addressed and more.

Mastering Microsoft Teams is for anyone that has never used Microsoft Teams as well as anyone that has already been using Microsoft Teams in a work or school environment, but wants to learn more. Additionally, business owners and IT professionals will benefit from learning additional ways to support end users through governance and extendability.

The layout of this book begins by answering what Microsoft Teams is, followed by chapters on how to work, communicate, hold meetings, and extend capabilities. These chapters provide step-by-step guidance on how to perform different actions, as well as tips and tricks to help you get the most out of the application. Additional chapters focus on improving user adoption and the creation and implementation of a governance plan to provide a safe and secure way to allow collaboration within your organization. The remaining chapter focuses on using Microsoft Teams in the classroom by providing instructions for both educators and students to help navigate a world of remote learning opportunities.

Microsoft Teams is continuously updated with additional functionality. Depending on when you are reading this book, we acknowledge that many things have changed already. This being said, we have included a chapter discussing known issues with the limitations of Microsoft Teams and look at some of the updates that are planned for the future.