Microsoft Teams Exam MS – 700 : Detailed Study Material – Introduction to Teams

fig : Microsoft Teams - Teams desktop client
fig : Microsoft Teams - Teams desktop client

Hi All,

Greetings for the day!!!

Today starting preparing the exam – MS – 700 – Managing Microsoft Teams , one of the my favorite service from Microsoft 365 suite

In this article we are going to start from very basic / introductory details. Just to start or have an idea of Teams. In subsequent article we will deep dive.

Take away from this article

  • Understand what is Microsoft Teams
  • Features of Microsoft Teams
  • Where to start Microsoft Teams
  • Licensing requirement for Microsoft Teams

What is Microsoft Team

  • Microsoft defines Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Team is cloud based communication platform which combines following services for collaboration
    • Chat
    • Meetings
    • Calls
    • Files / Documents
    • Video Conferencing
  • In layman terms, Microsoft Team is platform which provides various features for the users from my organization like
    • Chat in between – one to one chat
    • Chat in group of users
    • Having meeting in between / enabling videos
    • Calls in between
    • Sharing documents / files / audio / video with each other or with group
    • We can collaborate with people inside our organization or from outside as well
fig : Microsoft Teams features - image courtesy - Microsoft
fig : Microsoft Teams features – image courtesy – Microsoft
  • Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365

Starting with Microsoft Teams

fig : Microsoft Teams - Web Teams - Teams accessing through browser
fig : Microsoft Teams – Web Teams – Teams accessing through browser

    Teams Desktop Client

    fig : Microsoft Teams - Web Teams - Teams desktop client
    fig : Microsoft Teams – Teams desktop client

    User Roles in Teams

    • Teams only provides two user roles, which consist of – Owners and Members.
      fig : Microsoft Teams - Team members - Owners and Members
      fig : Microsoft Teams – Team members – Owners and Members

      Types of Teams we can create

      • There are three types of teams which we can create
        • Org-wide teams
          • All users in a organization / company are member of the Team
          • This team is used for Small or Mid-Size organization
          • In this type of Team users are limited to 10,000 only
          • Public teams
            • These teams are open and any user can join
            • Private teams
              • These team will have only invited users
              fig : Microsoft Teams - Teams types option - Privacy
              fig : Microsoft Teams – Teams types option – Privacy

              Channels

              • A team is made up of channels
              • Channels are where we have meetings, have conversations, and files
              • General is the default channel when we create Team
                fig : Microsoft Teams - Teams - Channels - "General" default channel
                fig : Microsoft Teams – Teams – Channels – “General” default channel
                • Different types of channel
                  • Standard Channels
                    • Standard channels are visible to all team members
                    • Private Channels
                      • Private channels create focused spaces for collaboration within a Team
                      • Anyone, including guests, can be added as a member of a private channel, which are part of the Team
                      • Only the users of Team who are owners or members of the private channel can access this channel
                      • Shared Channels
                        • Shared channels are opposite to Private channels
                        • Shared channel creates a space where we can invite the users who are not part of Team
                      • We can add new channel by clicking on three dots “” in-front of Teams and clicking on “Add channel” link or from option “Create more channels” from right pane as
                      fig : Microsoft Teams - Add new channel to Teams
                      fig : Microsoft Teams – Add new channel to Teams
                      • When we click on either “Add channel” or “Create more channels” link we will have “Create channel” dialog as
                        fig : Microsoft Teams - Adding channel
                        fig : Microsoft Teams – Adding channel
                        • Default channel is – Standard
                        • We could select different type of channel from “Privacy” option as
                          fig : Microsoft Teams - Adding new channel - Selecting Privacy option - Standard, Private and Shared
                          fig : Microsoft Teams – Adding new channel – Selecting Privacy option – Standard, Private and Shared

                          Licensing requirement for Microsoft Teams

                          • Except for joining Teams meetings anonymously, each user in our organization must have a Teams license before they can use Teams
                          • By default, when a licensing plan (for example, Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3 or Microsoft 365 Business Premium) is assigned to a user, a Teams license is automatically assigned, and the user is enabled for Teams
                          • For detailed plan information on subscriptions that enable users for Microsoft Teams, see the full subscription comparison table.

                          Microsoft Teams add-on licenses

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