Get a 360-degree view of Teams as a secure collaboration tool with best practices and recommendations for using Teams efficiently

Key Features

• Master and manage virtual meetings easily using Teams
• Understand the essential security and administration aspects of Microsoft Teams
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with your colleagues using Teams and M365 apps such as Sway, Yammer, and Stream

Book Description

The outbreak of the pandemic has forced the world to embrace remote working and the modern style of virtual business. However, end users may find it challenging to cope with this sudden change in working style, not aware of all the features and remote working tools available to make their life easy. Microsoft Teams is an exceptional platform, adopted by many organizations for unified communication and collaboration, and this book will help you to make the most of its capabilities.

Complete with step-by-step explanations and screenshots, this book guides you through the topics that you'll find useful in your daily use of Teams. You'll learn how to manage your teams and projects with Microsoft Teams in a structured and organized way. The book provides hands-on information with a focus on the end user side to help corporate users to increase productivity and become a Microsoft Teams superuser. Finally, you'll explore the most effective ways of using the app with best practices and tips and tricks for making the most of the features available for your scenario.

By the end of this Microsoft Teams book, you'll have mastered Microsoft Teams and be fully equipped as a modern collaboration end user to effectively increase your remote work productivity.

What you will learn

• Find out how to secure your documents and data with Microsoft's security
• Improve your organization's productivity and engagement with Microsoft Teams
• Integrate Teams with other Office 365 apps such as SharePoint, OneNote, and OneDrive
• Automate your regular tasks with easy end-user automation options
• Discover best practices and etiquettes for using Teams efficiently and effectively
• Explore tips and tricks from expert MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) authors

Who this book is for

This book for anyone who wants to improve their day-to-day productivity using Microsoft Teams. Anyone with access to Office 365 apps will find this book useful irrespective of their designations.

Fundamental knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 Applications is required.

Table of Contents

1. Managing Meetings in Teams
2. Project Management in Teams
3. Workforce Management in Teams
4. Managing Collaboration in Teams
5. Managing Communication in Teams
6. Organize Virtual Events
7. User and Data Security
8. Teams Etiquette and Best Practices
9. End User Automation
10. Productivity Tips and Tricks

About the Author

Sathish Veerapandian is a Certified Microsoft Infrastructure/Cloud Architect with 14 years of International large scale hands-on experience in Planning, Designing, Execution, IT Management of Messaging Platforms such as Microsoft Teams with Telephony, Skype for Business Voice, Microsoft Exchange, Intune Deployment, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Security Implementations. His dedication to serve the technical community has earned him the title of Microsoft MVP for the past 7 years, and he shares his technical knowledge and skills through Local Meetups, blogs, and participates in Microsoft Ignite sessions. He is well known in the community for his contributions in Office 365, Microsoft Teams and Security platforms.Harsharanjeet Kaur's skill set has allowed her to wear many hats during her career, including being a blogger, a Microsoft Certified Trainer for more than 5 years, a cloud consultant and architect, and a PowerShell automation expert. She has experience in various technologies, such as Azure IaaS, DevOps, Microsoft Teams administration, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft Intune, and perimeter security, and has worked with various government and corporate clients across the US, the UK, Asia-Pacific, and many other regions. Harsharan lives in Central India with her husband and loves to volunteer for social causes.Ashok Madhvarayan is a Microsoft Certified Professional, blogger, and author at Cloud Exchangers, and makes real-world technical contributions via Microsoft communities (Q&A). Extensive knowledge and experience in messaging (Microsoft Exchange Server), the cloud (Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Enterprise Mobility & Security ), and services including infrastructure (Windows Server, Active Directory, ADFS, ADCS, file servers, System Center Configuration Manager), unified communication (MS Teams, Skype for Business, video conferencing room systems, Surface Hub), virtualization (Hyper-V), and databases (SQL).Sriram Rajamanickam is a Microsoft Certified consultant with proven experience in Microsoft cloud technologies specialized in Microsoft 365, Azure, Intune, Azure Information Protection, Windows domains, Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows Server, and Windows virtualization. He is a senior specialist currently working with a government entity responsible for operating government shared services with respect to Microsoft technologies and their successful cloud journey.