Microsoft Teams For Dummies

Chapter 3

Starting Your First Team and Managing Your Settings

IN THIS CHAPTER

Creating a new team for your teammates and yourself

Adding teammates to your team

Learning how to manage your team

Setting your user preferences

One of the nice things about Microsoft Teams is that the name of it says it all. Teams is about communicating and collaborating with other people as part of a team. At the heart of the Teams app is a team of people. A team in the context of Microsoft Teams, consists of a group of one or more people (though a team of one is boring). Within a team is where you create channels to chat, share files among teammates, use apps, and do all sorts of other nifty things.

In this chapter, you find out how to create a new team and invite others to that team. You also discover how to manage the team you created and personalize each team’s settings.

Creating a New Team

When you first log in to Microsoft Teams, you will see that a default Team is created for you automatically using the account information you provide when you first sign up for Microsoft 365, Office 365, or ...