1. Application Support, Development & Administration
Microsoft Teams
Beverly Edens
U of A IT Services
Application Support, Development & Administration

2. Agenda Introduction to Microsoft Teams Managing Microsoft Teams
Future of Microsoft Teams
Q&A
Today’s Agenda
Microsoft Teams
Managing Microsoft Teams
Future of Microsoft Teams
Q&A

3. What is a Microsoft Team?

4. Chat-based workspace in Office 365
Chat for today’s teams
Communicate in the moment and keep everyone in the know
A hub for teamwork
Give your team quick access to information they need right in
Office 365
Customizable for 
each team
Tailor your workspace to include content and capabilities your team needs every day.
Security teams trust
Get the enterprise-level security and compliance features you expect from Office 365.
Teams is a chat-based team workspace in Office 365
Keeps everyone in the know with chat history, whether across the team or in a private chat
It’s a dedicated hub for teamwork, where people have easy access to everyday apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, websites, OneNote and more
Great collaboration experience with the same commitment to safeguard customer and user data
Fun Facts
MS Teams turned one year old on March 14th
Over 200,000 organizations use Teams
We have around 2,000 at UA

5. Microsoft Teams Clients

6. Clients for Microsoft Teams
Web
Desktop
Mobile
Full-functioned chat client that can be used from a variety of browsers.
Doesn’t yet support conferencing.
Provides support for audio, video, and content sharing for team meetings, group calling, and private one-on-one or private multi-party calls.
Geared at users participating in chat-based conversations while on the go , and currently allows users to have peer-to-peer audio call.
Teams has clients available for web, desktop, and mobile
Web:
Browser must also be configured to allow third party cookies. Safari is a little iffy
Desktop
Desktop clients can be downloaded and installed by end users directly from
Mobile:
iOS, Android, and Windows(?)
Mobile apps are distributed and updated through the respective mobile platform’s app store only

7. Team Organization

8. Structure
Teams
Collection of people, content, and tools surrounding different projects
Channels
Dedicated sections within a team to keep conversations organized
Places where everyone on the team can have open conversations
Organization
All teams created by employees in your organization are associated with your Office 365 tenant. You can designate all employees or a subset of employees with the ability to create teams, using Office 365 Groups.   
Team
A team is designed to bring together a group of people together in one workspace to accomplish goals or complete projects
Project-based work
Launching a product,
Digital war room
Ongoing
Conversations, files and notes across team channels are only visible to members of the team.
Channel
A channel helps organize the team’s conversations, content and tools around a specific topic.
Channels can be organized by topic
Events
Discipline
Project
Fun stuff) – RockIT
Other Notes
Team owners can create channels and enable team members to create channels, as needed.
Tabs along the top of a channel enable teams to keep files, notes, and customized content
This content is then easily accessible to everyone on the team. We’ll see this shortly

9. Memberships and Roles
Team owners are able to invite anyone into the Team
Three roles in Teams:
Owner: person who creates the team or assigned the role. Responsible for managing team-wide settings and membership, including invitations
Team member: the people that have been invited to join the team
Guests: Office 365 users who are outside of your tenant can be added to the team by team owners (more aka.ms/guestaccesshelp)
Team owners are able to invite anyone in the organization they work
Three roles in Teams:
Owner: person who creates the team or assigned the role. Responsible for managing team-wide settings and membership, including invitations
Team member: the people that have been invited to join the team
Guests: Office 365 users who are outside of your tenant can be added to the team by team owners (more aka.ms/guestaccesshelp) Must have an Office 365 affiliate account!!!

10. Memberships and Roles (cont.)
Team Owner
Team Member
Team Guests
Create team  -
Leave team
Edit team name/description
Delete team
Add channel *
Edit channel name/description
Delete channel
Add members
**
Add tabs
Add connectors
Add bots
All permissions are set on a per team basis.
Can be public or private
* Can be restricted through Team settings by the owner
** After adding a member to a team, an Owner can also promote a Member to Owner status. It is also possible for an Owner to demote their own status to a Member
Guests cannot be made Team Owners
* Can be restricted through Teams settings by the owner

11. Teams in Action!

12. Resources Office 365 User voice Microsoft Docs Microsoft Teams roadmap
Microsoft Teams Technical Community
Microsoft Teams UserVoice
Driving Adoption Community
Microsoft Office 365 Roadmap
Office 365 User voice
Microsoft Docs

13. Q&A

14. Application Support, Development & Administration
Microsoft Teams
Beverly Edens
U of A IT Services
Application Support, Development & Administration