Microsoft Teams Consultants in NJ and FL

To create a team in Microsoft Teams, click the “Teams” button in the left-hand navigation bar and then click the “Create new team” button. You can then enter a name for your team and choose whether to make it a public or private team.

To start a meeting in Microsoft Teams, click the “Calendar” button in the left-hand navigation bar and then click the “New meeting” button. You can then enter a name for your meeting and choose whether to make it a video meeting, audio meeting, or online meeting and invite other people to join.

Breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams allow you to create sub-meetings within your Teams meetings for smaller groups to collaborate and have more meaningful discussions. You must be a meeting organizer to access and manage the breakout room option. Breakout rooms can only be created after the meeting has started and you can add up to 50 breakout rooms for a single meeting.

The key features of Microsoft Teams include:

• Chat: Teams provides a real-time chat feature that allows you to communicate with your team members individually or in groups.
• Meetings: Teams allows you to schedule and host online meetings with video, audio, and screen-sharing capabilities.
• Calling: Teams allows you to make and receive voice and video calls to other Teams users, as well as to landlines and mobile phones.
• Files: Teams provides a central location to store and share files with your team members.
• Apps: Teams integrates with a variety of Microsoft and third-party apps, allowing you to extend the functionality of Teams to meet your specific needs.

To join a team in Microsoft Teams, click the “Teams” button in the left-hand navigation bar and then click the “Join or create a team” button. You can then enter the name of the team you want to join or click the “Browse teams” button to search for teams.

Microsoft Teams meetings or calls can be recorded to capture video, audio, and screen-sharing activity. The recording takes place in the cloud, and it is saved so you can share it with other members of your team or across your organization. While recording is in progress, you’ll see no more than four peoples’ video streams at one time. Users should update to the latest version of the Teams app for iOS and Android to take advantage of recording and video playback capabilities in Teams on mobile devices.

Microsoft Teams is available for businesses of all sizes as part of Microsoft Office 365 subscriptions. You can choose Microsoft Teams Essentials for $4.00 per user/month or as part of the Microsoft 365 Business Basic plan for $6.00 per user/month. Microsoft Teams also comes with the Microsoft 365 Business Standard plan for $12.50 per user/month and the Microsoft 365 Business Premium plan for $22.00 per user/month. Find the right Microsoft Teams plan for your business by scheduling a consultation with us.

• Polly: With Polly, users can create polls inside of their Teams channels and view real-time results and analytics as they come in. All you need to do is mention @polly in your designated chat and customize your poll.
• Karma: Karma is a peer engagement and recognition tool that records the “kudos” you give to your fellow employees. It helps to promote good behavior and best practices and acts as an internal scoring system where people can give each other points and move up leaderboards.
• Trello: Trello Connector allows team members to collaboratively manage to-do lists and tasks. Everyone is kept in the loop on their work and can fully engage with Trello’s tools without leaving the Microsoft Teams interface. 
• Wiki: Wiki is a default app in Microsoft Teams, included automatically when you create a channel, which can be used as a dedicated workspace for members to record notes. It is a great central knowledge repository, as well as an FAQ resource. 
• ScrumGenius: ScrumGenius is a way to keep track of recurring meetings and the progress associated with meeting goals. Every day at a set time, the ScrumGenius bot prompts team members with a series of questions on what they accomplished yesterday, what they plan to do next, and any blockers they encountered.