Microsoft Teams allows you to easily access additional applications from the main menu – cloud services and connectors that you will use in your daily work. There are a handful of useful applications, organized by categories, which improve the functionality of Teams such as: Forms, Shifts, Approvals, Stream, Power BI, One Note and many others …
Microsoft Teams supports an integrated voice over IP (VoIP) solution, which can be used to communicate with team members. They can start, receive and transfer calls from or to fixed or mobile numbers all the time using MS Teams. For this purpose, they can use call plans provided by Microsoft or connect directly to the PBX (PSTN), which is enabled by SBC (Session Boarder Controller).
Teamwork often involves collaborating while entering and updating data in shared files. Working together often means just that – the ability for multiple people to work on one document at a time. Where are the documents kept? Those you share in the channel are part of the SharePoint OnLine folder while the files you share, during private or group Chat, are stored in the OneDrive for Business repository and can only be accessed by chat participants.
When, in the context of Microsoft Teams, we use the word meetings, we mean audio or video meetings. In the first case, participants have only a microphone and headphones or speakers from the hardware; then instead of them other participants can see avatar shown as initials or profile photo. When it comes to video meetings, participants can also see each other. In both cases, they can share the screen content, chat, raise hand…
The Calendar menu is the place where Microsoft Teams meetings and events (webinars) are planned. This menu is not available in the free version of Teams. It is linked to the appropriate Exchange Online account and calendar and allows you to create a one-time or recurring appointment, for organization members and/or external users, channel members, and so on. The process of scheduling appointments is easy and intuitive, let’s see how this is done!