CHAPTER 9
Channels
Each Team in Microsoft Teams consists of channels that serve to structure communication and information. Channels keep conversations, files, meetings, and apps separated nicely by a topic structure you choose to define. New channels can be added on the fly, and some can even be permission-protected. You can do a lot with channels.
It might be easy to confuse a Team with a channel, but it should be simple: A Team consists of channels, starting with the provided General channel and any more channels you decide to add.
Channels offer a nice way to separate work by topic, project, expertise, skill, or all of the above. Think of them as a progression of the folder structures of old-school shared drives. But we try to be more structured ...
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