Microsoft Teams For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 3

Starting Your First Team and Managing Settings

IN THIS CHAPTER

Creating new teams

Adding teammates to your team

Managing your team

Setting 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. Whether you work in the same office building with your team or each team member works remotely from home, you are still the same team. 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 new teams and invite others to them. You also discover how to manage teams 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 ...