fig : Microsoft Teams – Teams desktop client

Hi All,

Greetings for the day!!!

Today starting preparing the exam – MS – 700 – Managing Microsoft Teams Exam, one of the my favorite service from Microsoft 365 suite

In this article we are going to start from very basic / introductory details. Just to start or have an idea of Teams. In subsequent article we will deep dive.

Take away from this article

• Understand what is Microsoft Teams
• Features of Microsoft Teams
• Where to start Microsoft Teams
• Licensing requirement for Microsoft Teams

What is Microsoft Team

• Microsoft defines Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Team is cloud based communication platform which combines following services for collaboration
  • Chat
  • Meetings
  • Calls
  • Files / Documents
  • Video Conferencing
• In layman terms, Microsoft Team is platform which provides various features for the users from my organization like
  • Chat in between – one to one chat
  • Chat in group of users
  • Having meeting in between / enabling videos
  • Calls in between
  • Sharing documents / files / audio / video with each other or with group
  • We can collaborate with people inside our organization or from outside as well

• Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365

Starting with Microsoft Teams

• You could start with Team either through browser or Teams desktop client
• Accessing teams through browser – https://teams.microsoft.com/

Teams Desktop Client

• We can download “Microsoft Teams Desktop Client” from – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app 

User Roles in Teams

• Teams only provides two user roles, which consist of – Owners and Members.

Types of Teams we can create

• There are three types of teams which we can create
  • Org-wide teams
    • All users in a organization / company are member of the Team
    • This team is used for Small or Mid-Size organization
    • In this type of Team users are limited to 10,000 only
  • Public teams
    • These teams are open and any user can join
  • Private teams
    • These team will have only invited users

• A team is made up of channels
• Channels are where we have meetings, have conversations, and files
• General is the default channel when we create Team

• Different types of channel
  • Standard Channels
    • Standard channels are visible to all team members
  • Private Channels
    • Private channels create focused spaces for collaboration within a Team
    • Anyone, including guests, can be added as a member of a private channel, which are part of the Team
    • Only the users of Team who are owners or members of the private channel can access this channel
  • Shared Channels
    • Shared channels are opposite to Private channels
    • Shared channel creates a space where we can invite the users who are not part of Team
• We can add new channel by clicking on three dots “…” in-front of Teams and clicking on “Add channel” link or from option “Create more channels” from right pane as

• When we click on either “Add channel” or “Create more channels” link we will have “Create channel” dialog as

• Default channel is – Standard
• We could select different type of channel from “Privacy” option as

Licensing requirement for Microsoft Teams

• Except for joining Teams meetings anonymously, each user in our organization must have a Teams license before they can use Teams
• By default, when a licensing plan (for example, Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3 or Microsoft 365 Business Premium) is assigned to a user, a Teams license is automatically assigned, and the user is enabled for Teams
• For detailed plan information on subscriptions that enable users for Microsoft Teams, see the full subscription comparison table.

Microsoft Teams add-on licenses

• Add-on licenses are licenses for specific Microsoft Teams capabilities.
• Add-on licenses give us the flexibility to add capabilities only for users in your organization who need them.
• Here’s a list of Teams add-on licenses and their capabilities that we can add to your Teams subscription – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-add-on-licensing/microsoft-teams-add-on-licensing

REFERENCES

• Microsoft Teams: Create and Explore Team in Microsoft Teams
• M365 / Microsoft Teams – Introduction to Microsoft Teams – for beginners / Administrators (help to prepare interviews and respective certifications) – Part 1
• M365 / Microsoft Teams – Introduction to Microsoft Teams – for beginners / Administrators – Part 2 – Teams management tools – Study guide for MS – 700
• Get clients for Microsoft Teams

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Reference

Sabadra, P., 2023, Microsoft Teams Exam MS – 700 : Detailed Study Material – Introduction to Teams, Available at: https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/12/18/microsoft-teams-exam-ms-700-detailed-study-material-introduction-to-teams/ [Accessed on 13 March 2023]