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 …

Chat menu

The Chat menu is used to start or continue a conversation with one or more users. You can save, filter and search conversations, and instead of the simple text, which chats used to be, you have a lot of opportunities to highlight what you wanted to say. You can format a font or paragraph of text, add emoji symbols, animated gifs, stickers …