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Embrace tools that support modern work and security for whatever happens next.

Join us for a unique experience designed to help organizations connect in a new way and thrive in the face of change. Microsoft expert Mike Fontaine will present this webinar and will be answering your questions.

Agenda: 

Introduction

  • Introduction to Teams as the central hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365 
  • How Teams impacts organizations 
  • Overview of chats, meetings, and calls 
  • Collaborate with integrated Microsoft 365 apps 
  • Customizing team workspace 
  • Stay connected across devices

Navigate Microsoft Teams 

  • Explore the Microsoft Teams interface 
  • Your digital identity within Teams 
  • Search in Teams 
  • Compose a new message 
  • Break down the apps within Teams

Using persistent Chat 

  • Create and participate in one-on-one, group, and meeting conversations 
  • Format messages 
  • Find messages by a person’s name or keyword 
  • Hide or mute chats to keep them out of the way 
  • Connect relevant information to chats 
  • Easily jump into an audio or video call

Collaborating in a team 

  • Overview of teams and channels 
  • Utilize posts to share ideas and communicate with the team 
  • Share and collaborate on files 
  • Customize and extend the Teams experience through connecting Microsoft and other apps 
  • Host an audio or video call within a Channel

Calendar and meetings

  • Overview of the relationship between Outlook and Teams calendar 
  • Book an online meeting 
      • Create in Teams or Outlook 
      • Difference between meeting and channel meeting 
      • Scheduling assistant 
      • Invite people outside the organization, including those who don’t have a Teams license 
  • Change calendar view 
  • RSVP, chat with participants and join 
  • Meeting details

Call capabilities in Teams 

  • Set speed dial and contact groups 
  • Launch an audio or video call from VoIP 
  • Exploring Phone System (if enabled)

See all your files 

  • Overview of files storage in Microsoft Teams 
  • See recent files, files from across teams, and downloads 
  • Access OneDrive
  • Connect to another cloud storage location (if requested)

Customize and extend 

  • Pin additional apps or unpin unused apps 
  • Preview to extending Teams experience (covered in advanced Teams courses)

Catching up with the Activity feed 

  • Getting to the summary of everything that’s happened in Teams 
  • Viewing notifications 
  • Filtering notifications and responding to posts

Create your first team 

  • Walkthrough of setting up a team and channels 
  • Explore different circumstances where a team could be made 
  • Building a successful first team 
  • Create a team from scratch that has a clear intention 
      • Build channels with clear description and uses 
      • Pin tabs to extend the experience 
      • Post etiquette and populating channels with rich content 
      • Review key features in teams 
  • Customizable demonstration based on workstreams and use cases

Join a Teams meeting

  • Explore how teams can be used to prepare for a meeting, run a meeting, and follow-up on meeting objectives 
  • Join a meeting from a hyperlink, meeting chat, dial-in, calendar, or a channel 
  • Navigate the pre-meeting screen and selecting the right devices 
  • Explore main actions in a Teams meeting
    • Share video, audio, and content 
    • Show and chat with participants and raise hand 
    • Explore meeting views 
  • Mobile capabilities

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Summary of topics covered 

Question and Answer Session

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