Working From Home For Dummies

Chapter 15

Embracing Teams to Make Meetings Better

IN THIS CHAPTER

Figuring out the different types of meetings

Scheduling and joining meetings

Taking meetings to the next level with conference and video calls

If you’re a veteran of Microsoft Office, you’re surely familiar with Outlook. Microsoft Outlook is an app that’s part of the Office suite of products that you can use to manage your email, calendar, and contacts. Microsoft Teams integrates with Outlook and shines when you use Outlook to manage and conduct your Teams meetings.

In this chapter, you find out about the different types of Teams meetings — scheduled meetings, ad hoc meetings, and private meetings. You discover how to schedule a new meeting in Teams and add Teams functionality to a meeting you schedule in Outlook. You also discover how to start a meeting and join an existing meeting. Finally, you explore the built-in conference call and video call capabilities of Teams, which enable you to meet with people from all over the world.

Getting Up to Speed with the Types of Meetings in Teams

A meeting is a general term that encompasses everything from a one-on-one chat with a friend to a presentation to hundreds of ...