Reimagine Remote Working with Microsoft Teams: A practical guide to increasing your productivity and enhancing collaboration in the remote world

by Ashok Madhvarayan, Harsharanjeet Kaur, Sathish Veerapandian, Sriram Rajamanickam

Length: 426 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2021-12-10
ISBN-10: 1801814163
ISBN-13: 9781801814164
Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)

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.

Managing Meetings in Teams
Project Management in Teams
Workforce Management in Teams
Managing Collaboration in Teams
Managing Communication in Teams
Organize Virtual Events
User and Data Security
Teams Etiquette and Best Practices
End User Automation
Productivity Tips and Tricks

Reimagine Remote Working with Microsoft Teams
Contributors
About the authors
About the reviewers
Preface
    Who this book is for
    What this book covers
    To get the most out of this book
    Download the color images
    Conventions used
    Get in touch
    Share Your Thoughts
Section 1 – Managing Your Meetings, Projects, and Workforce
Chapter 1: Managing Meetings in Teams
    Meeting options via Windows/Mac
        Initiating a meeting
        Turning video on and off
        Configuring meeting options
        Managing meeting roles
        Sharing content during a meeting
        Presenter mode
        Breakout rooms
    Channel meetings and notes
        Ad hoc meeting in a channel
        Meeting notes
        A few important things to remember
        Before a meeting
        During and after a meeting
    The channel calendar
        Important limitations – channel calendar
    Microsoft Bookings
        Licensing requirements 
    Microsoft Forms 
        Accessing Forms
    Summary
Chapter 2: Project Management in Teams
    Technical requirements
    How Microsoft Tasks helps businesses to keep track of the projects 
    Using the Milestones app and Teams for superior project management
    Using the Project and Roadmap apps as a better way to keep track of your projects
    Creating Lists and following up with projects
    Familiarizing yourself with Azure Boards and Utilizing them for projects
    Summary
Chapter 3: Workforce Management in Teams
    Technical requirements
    Employee shift management using the Shifts app
        Creating a shift
        Sharing the shift with team members
        Managing requests
        Knowing your schedule
    How approvals are now made easy in Microsoft Teams
        Using templates
    Collecting employee ideas through campaigns
    Balancing productivity and wellbeing
    Reporting, managing, and resolving issues using Microsoft Teams
    Sending and receiving appreciation
    Viewing leave balances and requesting leave using the Human Resources app
    Building a centralized work portal using Workhub
    Summary
Section 2 – Collaboration, Events, and Communication
Chapter 4: Managing Collaboration in Teams
    Technical requirements
    Working together with your teammates in OneNote
    Using OneDrive in Teams to improve collaboration
    Using SharePoint to store, collaborate, and share information
        Integrating Microsoft Teams from the SharePoint portal
    Sending emails and sending email attachments to a Teams channel
    Using Whiteboard to brainstorm ideas
    Summary
Chapter 5: Managing Communication in Teams 
    Group chats in Teams
        Creating a group chat
        Renaming and pinning a group
        Adding and removing members to and from group chats
        Collaboration options in group chats
    Microsoft Stream Classic
        Stream licensing requirements
        Stream data locations
        Stream quota 
        Accessing Microsoft Stream
        Configuring Microsoft Stream
    Microsoft Yammer
        Configuring Yammer
    External access and guest access to Microsoft Teams
    Microsoft Sway
    Summary
Chapter 6: Organize Virtual Events
    Technical requirements
    Teams live events
        Scheduling
        Inviting attendees
        Producing or presenting the live event
        Attendees view of the live event
        Ending the live event
    Webinars
        Scheduling a webinar
        Hosting the webinar 
    The new Teams view-only experience
    Advanced Communications license
    The custom image branding experience
    Summary
Section 3 – All about Security, Client Automation, Teams Etiquette, and Tips and Tricks
Chapter 7: User and Data Security
    Technical requirements
    Microsoft Teams and security
        Microsoft Teams security framework
        Microsoft Teams privacy commitment
        Security, privacy, and compliance in Microsoft Teams
    Security in Microsoft Teams
    Compliance in Microsoft Teams
    Privacy in Microsoft Teams
    Recommendations for securing Microsoft Teams
        Location of Teams data at rest
        Security for Microsoft Teams meeting attendees
        Managing guest users in Microsoft Teams
    Summary
Chapter 7: Teams Etiquette and Best Practices
    Technical requirements
    Microsoft Teams everyday etiquette
        First things first
        Video, audio, and environment setup
        Joining a meeting
        Attending and participating in a meeting/call
    Microsoft Teams best practices
        Getting started
        Chat
        Shared files
        Creating teams
        Teams channels
    Teams limits and specifications
    Summary
Chapter 9: End User Automation
    Technical requirements
    Managing approvals in Microsoft Teams with Power Automate
        Installing Power Automate in Teams
        Configuring Power Automate 
    Utilizing Power Virtual Agents for Microsoft Teams 
        Creating our bots
        Testing our example
    Using the Inspection solution for Microsoft Teams
    Building the next generation of collaborative apps for hybrid work
        Apps 
        Tools
    Summary
Chapter 10: Productivity Tips and Tricks
    Technical requirements
    Creating a team – proper naming standards
    Background images in Teams 
    Live captions in a Teams meeting
    Validating your network health during a Teams meeting
    Using Proximity Join to attend Teams meetings
    Summary
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