Microsoft Teams

Editor's Review

Microsoft Teams is an all-in-one app designed to bring people together for seamless communication and efficient collaboration. Whether you're planning an event with your community 🎉, working on a project with teammates 🧑‍💻, or simply staying in touch with family and friends 👪, Teams provides the tools you need to connect, share, and accomplish tasks in a secure and organized environment.

Key Features:

Effortless Connectivity: Meet securely with communities, teammates, family, or friends. Set up a meeting within seconds and invite anyone by sharing a link or calendar invite. Engage in 1-1 chats or communicate with your entire community, and use @mentions to get someone's attention. Create dedicated communities to discuss specific topics and make plans.

Collaborative Workspaces: Work closely and collaborate by keeping conversations organized by specific topics and projects with teams and channels. Conduct video or audio calls directly within Teams or instantly convert a group chat to a call. Use GIFs, emojis, and message animations to express yourself when words aren’t enough.

Project and Plan Management: Send photos and videos in chats to quickly and easily share important moments. Access shared documents and files on the go with cloud storage. Organize shared content in a community — events, photos, links, files —so you don’t have to waste time searching. Enhance your meetings with screenshare, whiteboard, or breakout rooms in virtual settings.

Secure and Controlled Environment: Manage access to information and ensure the right people have access to the right info, even when people join and leave projects. Use task lists to stay on top of projects and plans - assign tasks, set due dates, and cross off items to keep everyone on the same page. Securely collaborate with others while maintaining control over your data. Keep communities safe by allowing owners to remove inappropriate content or members.

Peace of Mind: Benefit from enterprise-level security and compliance you expect from Microsoft 365. Note that commercial features of this app require a paid Microsoft 365 commercial subscription or a trial subscription of Microsoft Teams for work. For support or feedback, email us at mtiosapp@microsoft.com. EU Contract Summary: aka.ms/EUContractSummary

Features

• Secure meetings with communities, teammates, family

• Instant meeting setup with shareable links

• 1-1 chats or community-wide conversations

• Dedicated communities for focused discussions

• Organized conversations by topics and projects

• Direct video and audio calls

• Expressive communication with GIFs and emojis

• Easy sharing of photos and videos

• Cloud storage access for documents

• Shared content organization

• Screenshare, whiteboard, and breakout rooms

• Managed access to information

• Task lists for project tracking

Pros

• Seamless connectivity with communities and teammates

• Efficient task and project management tools

• Secure environment for collaboration and communication

Cons

• Commercial features require a paid subscription

• Potential learning curve for new users