Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is client to chat, call, and share video simply from one place that helps you stay close to all the people in your life.
Teams is built on Microsoft 365 groups and include enterprise-level security, compliance, and manageability.
Microsoft Teams allows
- Create organizational team up to 10,000 members
- A team can be created from an Office 365 group up to 25,000 members
- A non-admin user can create up to 250 teams each team has 200 channels
- Current team limit is 500,000
- Unlimited messages and message search
- Agenda and scheduled meetings
- File usage
- OneDrive, SharePoint, Planner, Yammer, among others
- Channel meetings, video and/or audio conferencing and screen sharing
- Allows integration with other services
- And much more…
Microsoft Teams clients
Browser client The browser client https://teams.microsoft.com is a full, functional client that can be used from a variety of browsers. The browser client supports Calling and Meetings by using webRTC, so there is no plug-in or download required to run Teams in a browser. The browser must be configured to allow third-party cookies.
Desktop clients
The Teams desktop client is available as a standalone application and as part of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise for the following operating systems:
- 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows (8.1 or later)
- ARM64 for Windows 10 on ARM
- Windows Server (2012 R2 or later)
- macOS
- Linux (in .deb and .rpm formats)
- Chrome OS (For more information, see How to use Microsoft Office on a Chromebook)
Teams desktop client updates are released every two weeks after rigorous internal testing and validation through Microsoft Technology Adoption Program (TAP). The update usually takes place on a Tuesday. If a critical update is required, Teams will bypass this schedule and release the update as soon as it’s available.
The desktop client updates itself automatically. Teams checks for updates every few hours behind the scenes, downloads it, and then waits for the computer to be idle before silently installing the update.
Mobile clients
The Teams mobile apps are available for Android and iOS, and are geared for on-the-go users participating in chat-based conversations and allow peer-to-peer audio calls. For mobile apps, go to the relevant mobile stores Google Play and the Apple App Store.
Microsoft Teams Quick Start Guide
You can download Microsoft Teams Quick Start Guide here
What is a Team in Microsoft Team
It is a collection of people from the organization or guests, content and tools that involve different projects and outcomes within an organization.
A channel is a section dedicated to a team that keeps communication organized
The person in charge of the team is responsible for managing its content
When you create a team, here’s what gets created:
- A new Microsoft 365 group
- A SharePoint Online site and document library to store team files
- An Exchange Online shared mailbox and calendar
- A OneNote notebook
- Ties into other Microsoft 365 and Office 365 apps such as Planner and Power BI
When you create a team from an existing group, that group’s membership, site, mailbox, and notebook are surfaced in Teams.
There are two types of teams
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Teams for Education
Create a team from scratch
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Choose Teams
on the left side of the app, then select 
Join or create a team at the bottom of your teams list. -
Hover over the Create a team card and select
Create team. -
Choose From scratch.
- Decide what kind of team that you want this to be:
- To limit content and conversation to a specific set of people, choose Private.
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For a community or topic that anyone in the org can join, choose Public.
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Name your team and add an optional description.
- When you’re done, select Create.
Add a SharePoint page or document library as a tab in Teams
Bring team resources to one central place so that team members can focus, communicate, and collaborate to get work done. Add the SharePoint tab in Teams to quickly paste any published page, news post, or list from a SharePoint site. In Microsoft Teams, you can add published SharePoint pages, lists, and document libraries as individual tabs in a Teams channel. Team members can view pages, edit lists, work with their shared files, and add comments in the Teams tabs.
- Pages - SharePoint pages let you share information, news or ideas using images, videos and links.
- Lists - SharePoint lists are a great way to collaborate on content and data.
- Document libraries - SharePoint document libraries securely store files where team members can find them on any device.
Add a page from your team site as a tab in Teams
- In Teams, select the channel page. To the right of the channel name, select the + on the tab bar.
- Select the SharePoint tab.
- Select Pages to see a list of existing SharePoint pages and news posts available from your team site. Select the SharePoint content to add as a tab in the Teams channel.
- Select Post to the channel about this tab checkbox to automatically generate and post an announcement in the Teams channel letting your colleagues know that you’ve added this tab.
- Select Save.
Add a document library as a tab from your site
Notes:
- Each page, list, or document library will need to be added as a tab one at a time. Repeat this process to add more tabs to your Teams channel.
- You must be the Site owner of the SharePoint site to add site content as a tab in Teams.
- In Teams, select the channel page. To the right of the channel name, select the + on the tab bar.
- Select the SharePoint tab.
- Select the Document libraries to see existing SharePoint lists available from your team site. You can also pick a document library from Recommended section SharePoint content to add as a tab in the Teams channel.
- Available document libraries can also be viewed in the Recommended section.
- Select Post to the channel about this tab checkbox to automatically generate and post an announcement in the Teams channel letting your colleagues know that you’ve added this tab.
- Select Save.
Add a page or document library from a different SharePoint site
Note: SharePoint will validate the SharePoint URL and if you have access to the page. Permissions of the page itself will not change and if user on the team do not have permission to the tabbed page, they will be shown a page to request access.
- In Teams, select the channel page. To the right of the channel name, select the + on the tab bar.
- Select the SharePoint tab.
- Select the Any SharePoint site radio button and then paste the URL of the page, news post, or list that you want to add as a tab.
- Select Post to the channel about this tab checkbox to automatically generate and post an announcement in the Teams channel letting your colleagues know that you’ve added this tab.
- Select Save.