- [Instructor] Earlier in the course I noted
that one way to think of Teams is that
Teams becomes a central hub for your team
or working group's work life.
Teams out of the box includes a tab for your team
to be able to store its files.
So any new files it creates can easily be stored there.
Teams supports meetings, ad hoc meetings,
scheduled meetings, live events,
recording and playing back recordings from meetings.
Teams includes communication, chat and calling.
Teams includes a calendar.
There are some things though that Teams doesn't include
because Teams was not meant to totally replace
the existing work group products,
the existing collaboration tools we have,
it was really made to augment them by pulling them together
into a central location for your team.
So, imagine that your team, like many teams,
have some files, some documents,
that are stored in the cloud.
Maybe they're stored in OneDrive for Business,
maybe they're stored in Box, or in Dropbox,
or even in Google Drive.
With Teams, you can pull that cloud storage
directly into Teams so that your users
no longer have to go to Google Drive.
Your team can take its documents it's been working on
and have them right there in Teams.
With Teams we can take existing content from SharePoint
and from Office 365 groups,
which is also from SharePoint because that's where
most of it's stored,
and present this in Teams.
So if you have an Office 365 group
or a SharePoint team site,
but you want to have that effort be available in Teams,
it's a simple matter of creating a group
and/or tying some of the content
from your other work groups,
SharePoint teams, and Office 365 groups
directly to Microsoft Teams.
Any website that you have access to,
in SharePoint or otherwise,
a site, for example, in another intranet,
can be displayed in Microsoft Teams
and you can take any individual document
that you want your team to focus on,
perhaps a large document that a number of you are editing,
and you can put that on a tab right in Microsoft Teams,
so that you don't even have to open the file.
When you're in Teams,
you can easily see that document.
We'll spend the rest of this course
seeing how you can integrate content
from other parts of the Microsoft infrastructure stack,
from cloud storage, from SharePoint,
content from SharePoint sites and Office 365 groups,
websites, tab documents, and so on.
How do we make a transition in our organization
from using only Office 365 groups,
only SharePoint online, or both of those tools,
and add Teams on as an overlay
that makes all of our collaboration work even easier?