Hands-On Microsoft Teams: A Practical Guide to Enhancing Enterprise Collaboration with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365, 2nd Edition

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This book is a comprehensive guide to Microsoft Teams covering all its features from the basics to advanced functionalities. The second edition is updated with new chapters on Microsoft Teams templates, different editions of Teams, and the employee experience platform, Microsoft Viva. The book is a practical guide that helps users, managers, and administrators to enhance their enterprise collaboration through Teams and Microsoft 365. The guide is filled with real-world scenarios and best practices.

Key Features

• Updated with new chapters on Teams templates, the special editions of Teams, and Microsoft Viva
• Customize Teams for increased efficiency, collaborate with best practices, and use advanced Teams functionalities to your advantage
• Extend Teams through integration with Microsoft services such as PowerShell, SharePoint, Power Apps, and Power Automate

Book Description

Microsoft Teams is a permanent fixture in the modern workplace, but many of its productivity-boosting features go unnoticed or unused. Hands-On Microsoft Teams shows you how to use Teams to its full potential through easy-to-follow practical tutorials. The book explores the platform in comprehensive detail and how it interacts with the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem to help you work efficiently and manage your resources.

The guide helps you master the core functionalities, including setting up and managing teams, channels, chats, tabs, and meetings. Besides, the book also teaches you to add custom apps, integrate with Microsoft 365, use PowerShell automation, and explore useful settings you didn’t know existed. You’ll also learn how to implement solutions for real-world scenarios in Teams to increase your productivity.

Whether you’re an administrator, manager, or team member, this book will make you confident in using everything Microsoft Teams has to offer.

What You Will Learn

• Perform scheduling and manage meetings, live events, and webinars
• Create and manage Microsoft Teams templates to streamline company processes
• Deal with permissions and security issues in managing private and public teams and channels
• Extend Microsoft Teams using custom apps, Microsoft 365, and PowerShell automation
• Build your own Teams app with the Developer Portal without writing any code
• Deploy helpful chatbots using QnA Maker and Power Virtual Agents
• Explore Teams use cases for education, frontline work, and personal life
• Bring together knowledge, learning, resources, and insights with the new employee experience platform, Microsoft Viva.

Who This Book Is for

This Microsoft Teams book is for users who want to get a better handle on Teams, managers looking to improve the way their teams are working, and Microsoft 365 administrators who want to implement Teams effectively.

Table of Contents

• Microsoft Teams Basics
• Microsoft Teams’ Core Features
• How to Use Microsoft Teams – Chats and Conversation
• How to Use Microsoft Teams-Meetings, Webinars, and Live Events
• Private vs Public vs Shared: Teams and Channels
• Teams Templates
• Employee Experience in Microsoft Teams using Microsoft Viva
• Other Teams Use Cases
• Extending Microsoft Teams Using Apps
• Extending Microsoft Teams Using Custom Apps and Microsoft 365
• Building Your Own App for Microsoft Teams Using the Developer Portal
• Building Your Own Bot for Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Teams PowerShell – A tool for Automation

From the Publisher

The second edition of the Hands-On Microsoft Teams book includes additional chapters on Microsoft Teams templates, special editions of Teams, and Microsoft Viva, which provides an employee experience platform. The book teaches readers how to use Microsoft Teams to its full potential and covers real-world scenarios and best practices. Besides, the book provides practical solutions to enhance collaboration through Microsoft 365 and Teams.

What’s new in this second edition?

The second edition contains a brand-new chapter on Microsoft Teams templates, dedicated to helping govern and speed up the creation of new teams, and ensuring consistency across them. The channels chapter now includes an overview of shared channels. The book also covers industry-specific features and devices available for Microsoft Teams and the new employee experience solution from Microsoft, Microsoft Viva.

What are the future advancements that you anticipate in Microsoft Teams?

The future advancements in Microsoft Teams include making it a more robust platform. It will replace most of the applications used to accomplish day-to-day tasks at work. Teams will become an operating system rather than just a replacement for Skype. The book covers all core features of Microsoft Teams and teaches you how to configure and extend the platform while providing valuable administration tips for new and existing users and administrators.

What’s your favourite part of the book and why?

The book includes chapters that help all users to extend the Teams platform and build custom apps for specific business needs without needing to use developer resources. The book covers most of the development methods available for Microsoft Teams and provides step-by-step guides for readers to understand how to transform Microsoft Teams from the moment they start using it.

Publisher ‏: ‎ Packt Publishing; 2nd ed. edition (December 15, 2021)
Language ‏: ‎ English
Paperback ‏: ‎ 532 pages
ISBN-10 ‏: ‎ 1801075271
ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-1801075275
Item Weight ‏: ‎ 2 pounds
Dimensions ‏: ‎ 7.5 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches