Meetings

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…

Scheduling meetings

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!

Conversations within channels

Microsoft Teams offers the ability to talk to two or more users via chat or within the channels of one of the teams. This is quite reminiscent of traditional chat, but there are a few differences, so it seems appropriate to set aside a special post for this topic. In this text, you will learn about several additional possibilities of cooperation within the channel, as well as how to add an application/service that will be used by all its members …

Managing channels

Once we have created a channel, we can manage it using the options from the context menu of the channel or by opening that same menu in the Channels tab within the Manage team option. Under the Manage channel option, we can manage channel moderation and determine who can create posts, as well as view channel analytics. There are several other useful channel management options in the context menu…

Adding channels

We create channels within teams to direct the discussion in a certain direction, and they are seen in the Teams menu as folders. They can be public (accessible to anyone) or private (reserved for selected members only), which we specify when creating a channel. Each of them has an associated folder on the SharePoint Online portal where the files that team members work on are stored. If the channel is private, only members can access it.