Hands-On Microsoft Teams

A comprehensive guide to Teams for users and administrators, filled with real-world scenarios and best practices

Key Features
Updated with new chapters on Teams templates, the special editions of Teams, and Microsoft Viva
Customize Teams for increased efficiency, collaborate with best practices, and use advanced Teams functionalities to your advantage
Extend Teams through integration with Microsoft services such as PowerShell, SharePoint, Power Apps, and Power Automate
Book Description
Microsoft Teams is a permanent fixture in the modern workplace, but many of its productivity-boosting features go unnoticed or unused. Hands-On Microsoft Teams shows you how to use Teams to its full potential through easy-to-follow practical tutorials.

This guide to mastering Teams explores the platform in comprehensive detail and how it interacts with the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem to help you work efficiently and manage your resources. You'll get to grips with core functionality like setting up and managing teams, channels, chats, tabs, and meetings.

You'll also learn to get the best out of Teams by adding custom apps, integrating with Microsoft 365, using PowerShell automation, and exploring useful settings you didn't know existed. Along the way, you'll be shown various real-world scenarios and how to implement solutions for them in Teams that will increase your productivity.

Whether you're an administrator, manager, or team member, by the end of this book you'll be confident in using everything Microsoft Teams has to offer.

What you will learn
Perform scheduling and manage meetings, live events, and webinars
Create and manage Microsoft Teams templates to streamline company processes
Deal with permissions and security issues in managing private and public teams and channels
Extend Microsoft Teams using custom apps, Microsoft 365, and PowerShell automation
Build your own Teams app with the Developer Portal without writing any code
Deploy helpful chatbots using QnA Maker and Power Virtual Agents
Explore Teams use cases for education, frontline work, and personal life
Bring together knowledge, learning, resources, and insights with the new employee experience platform, Microsoft Viva
Who this book is for
This Microsoft Teams book is for users who want to get a better handle on Teams, managers looking to improve the way their teams are working, and Microsoft 365 administrators who want to implement Teams effectively.

Table of Contents
Microsoft Teams Basics
Microsoft Teams' Core Features
How to Use Microsoft Teams - Chats and Conversation
How to Use Microsoft Teams-Meetings, Webinars, and Live Events
Private vs Public vs Shared: Teams and Channels
Teams Templates
Employee Experience in Microsoft Teams using Microsoft Viva
Other Teams Use Cases
Extending Microsoft Teams Using Apps
Extending Microsoft Teams Using Custom Apps and Microsoft 365
Building Your Own App for Microsoft Teams Using the Developer Portal
Building Your Own Bot for Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams PowerShell - A tool for Automation