Introducing Microsoft Teams: Understanding the New Chat-Based Workspace in Office 365

© Balu N Ilag 2018

Balu N IlagIntroducing Microsoft Teamshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3567-6_1

1. Introduction: Microsoft Teams

Balu N Ilag¹ 

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Tracy, California, USA

 

This chapter introduces Microsoft Teams as a collaboration tool. This chapter covers the following topics:

1. 1.

   Microsoft Teams introduction

    
2. 2.

   What Teams brings to organizations

    
3. 3.

   License requirements for Teams

    
4. 4.

   SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange interaction

    
5. 5.

   Teams client availability and usage

    
6. 6.

   Microsoft Teams architecture

    
7. 7.

   Security and compliance

    
8. 8.

   Authentication

    

Defining Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration tool that brings conversations, persistent chat, phone calls, meetings, file content, and applications together in one place. Users can use any device with ...