- [Instructor] One way to think of Microsoft Teams
as the central hub for your team's work life.
Teams includes the ability to communicate.
It has chat.
If it's tied to your phone system,
it directly supports calling.
Teams also is the central place
that you'll be holding meetings.
You can have scheduled meetings that's used to hold,
for example, using Skype for Business,
you can have ad hoc meetings.
I need to talk with you right now,
and you can create large live events,
events with multiple presenters,
and you can record all of these events in Teams.
You can also customize Teams.
You can extend Teams with other applications.
So if your team needs more than a chat,
and a calendar, and calls, and files,
then it's easy enough to add a tab
that includes Planner, Forms, Power BI,
and all of these different applications
that can be made available in Teams.
You can also add Microsoft Power Apps,
Power Automate, and Power BI
so the entire platform is available to Microsoft Teams.
As with the other work group options
that we're going to discuss,
Microsoft Teams is secure.
Teams has a web app, an app for Windows and mobile apps
so you can work with Teams on the road,
you can work with Teams on a browser,
or you can work with Teams
in whatever version of Windows you're using.
When you use Teams, you create teams,
groups of people who work together.
You can create a private team
that is only available to the people who are members,
a public team,
where anybody in your organization
can choose to join the team,
or organization wide teams,
where everybody who's a member of the organization
is automatically subscribed to that team.
In Microsoft Teams,
a team is a group of people who work together.
Teams is designed to help you and your colleagues
move your work forward.
Within Teams, we create channels.
Channels are workspaces,
what the team of people who you work with actually works on.
So if, for example, we had a sales department,
perhaps we would have a sales team,
and inside that sales team,
if we had a group of people
who were focused on commercial sales,
we could have a commercial sales channel.
We might have a residential sales channel,
a governmental sales channel, and so on,
or we could have a channel for a particular product
or for a particular promotion.
Teams are people, channels are sections of work.
It's also worth mentioning that Microsoft Teams
is the fastest growing Microsoft work group app ever.
You'll see the reasons for that
as we continue in our course.