Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 2

Getting Up to Speed with Teams and Channels

IN THIS CHAPTER

Creating and joining Teams

Managing channels

Taking part in conversations

Configuring the workspaces that are important to you

The namesake of this app is the Team, and it’s time to delve into what a Team is. A Team is a permission-protected online workspace that comes with topic-specific channels that allow for threaded conversations, file sharing and editing, and in-channel Team meetings. Transparency is the name of the game: Every member of a Team has access to pretty much everything in the Team, including edit access to all files. For the most part, this access applies to external guests you may invite, too.

For many organizations, the use of Teams represents a paradigm shift in their working culture. Siloes and private messaging in email and chat — not to mention email attachments that make configuration control a nightmare — have been the norm since, well, the last millennium. Now’s your chance to join the future of work with a typically better, more efficient, more secure way to communicate and collaborate ...