Skip to content Skip to main navigation Skip to footer

Teams

PT

Teams is the platform for communications and collaboration within Microsoft 365. Teams brings chat, calling, meeting, collaboration, and application integration into a single experience. You can share files and data, manage tasks, and collaborate on documents with people inside and outside your organization. Teams can simplify your work by integrating with the other apps and processes you use.

Additionally, Microsoft Teams delivers the advanced security and compliance capabilities that enable safe and trustworthy online collaboration.

 

Meetings

Teams meetings include audio, video, and screen sharing. They are a fundamental way to collaborate in Teams. You don’t need to be a member of an organization (or even have a Teams account!) to join a Teams meeting; just view the invitation for instructions on how to connect.

Calls

Calls are a quick way to connect in Teams. You can make one-on-one calls or calls with multiple people. Set them up in advance, like in a meeting, or start them right away during a conversation.

Live events 

 

Chat is at the center of whatever you do in Teams. From individual chats with just one other person to group chats and conversations in channels—chat has you covered.

Once in a chat, you can send messages that include files, links, emojis, stickers, and GIF files. There are a few different ways to chat with people in Teams:

Private chat

Private chats enable quick chats with a specific person or a group of people. It reduces email clutter and makes it easier to share pictures and documents. You can start one-on-one or group chats by selecting Chat icon in Teams.

    • One-on-one chats: chats with one other person.
    • Group chats: chats with a few people at once, but outside of a channel.

Channel messages

Channels are where the work gets done. Channel conversations are public and visible to members of the channels. You can start conversations and make announcements in one or multiple channels simultaneously by selecting new conversation in the Posts tab of channels.

    • Channel messages: chats with everyone on the team who pays attention to that channel.

 

Microsoft Teams allows you to quickly bring together a team, whether with people from Iscte or from other organizations.

Roles

      • Owners: Manage the team (add/remove members, set configurations).
      • Members: Participate in conversations, meetings, and collaborate on files.
  • Teams
    A team is a group of people, content, and tools.
      • Public teams: These are open to anyone at Iscte.
      • Private teams: Access is restricted to invited users.

Channels
A team is made up of channels. Channels are spaces for collaboration within a team where the actual work is done. Channels are where meetings and conversations take place and where files are worked on together.

      • Standard channels: Visible to all team members.
      • Private channels: Only for specific members within the team.
      • Shared channels: Allow collaboration with people outside the team or organization.

 

Important features

      • Conversations, files, and notes are visible only to team members.
      • Tabs at the top of the channel link to favorite files, apps, and services.
      • Teams can be dynamic (projects) or ongoing (services/schools/departments).

 

With online meetings in Teams, you can host audio and video conference calls from any device. Share your content and collaborate easily during your meeting through integration with Microsoft 365. Meeting chats allow you to have conversations during the meeting and keep future updates in context. Anyone who has a valid business or consumer email address can easily join the meeting using a link in the invite.

    • Teams Meetings include audio, video, and screen sharing. They’re one of the key ways to collaborate in Teams.
      • Microsoft Teams meetings can support up to 11,000 participants.

        • The first 1,000 participants can fully engage with audio, video, and screen sharing. Any extra participants — up to 10,000 more — join in a view-only mode, allowing them to watch the meeting without interacting.

        • Participants don’t need to be a member of an organization, or have a Teams account to join a Teams meeting. They can join directly from the calendar invitation via the Join meeting link or call in via audio if available.

      • In addition to regularly scheduled meetings, your users can create channel meetings. With channel meetings, everybody in a team can see there’s a meeting, join the meeting, and use the meeting chat.

Training available

Setting up a meeting

 

Teams webinars provide the tools to schedule your webinar, register attendees, run an interactive presentation, and analyze attendee data for effective follow-up.

    • Webinars are structured events where presenters and participants have clear roles.
    • A key difference between webinars and Teams meetings is that webinars support robust registration management, a customizable event and registration site, and event-oriented default meeting options.
    • Webinars support up to 1,000 attendees.

Training available

How can I…

 

Town halls are generally best for situations where a limited number of presenters are presenting to a large group of attendees and direct interaction via chat or voice conversation isn’t needed.

    • For these event formats, attendees don’t use their cameras and mics, but instead use Q&A to engage with presenters and organizers.
    • Town halls currently support up to 10,000 attendees, but with a Teams Premium license, organizers can create town halls with up to 50,000 attendees.

 

Calls are a quick way to connect in Teams. With many calling options and useful features at your disposal, you can communicate with people or groups in familiar ways. You can make and receive calls directly in Microsoft Teams with advanced features like group calling, cloud voicemail, and call transfers.

There are two kinds of calls in Teams.

    • Calls between Teams clients: Out of the box, Teams supports the ability for users to make voice over IP (VoIP) 1:1 or group calls from Teams client to Teams client.
    • Make and receive PSTN calls: Microsoft Teams Phone allows users to make and receive Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) phone calls with traditional phone service.

      To enable users to make and receive PSTN calls, you need to connect Microsoft Teams Phone to the PSTN. Users can then use the Dial Pad to call landlines or mobiles phones on the PSTN.

 

Microsoft Teams provides the enterprise-grade security, compliance, and manageability. With Microsoft Teams, organizations can adopt user collaboration and communication while protecting their business data and interest on an enterprise scale.

Security

Teams enforces two-factor authentication, single sign-on through Active Directory, and encryption of data in transit and at rest. The security capabilities for Teams include:

    • Safe Links
    • Safe Attachments
    • Multi-Geo Support
    • End-to-end encryption
    • Meeting safety controls
    • Conditional Access policies
    • Microsoft Defender for Office 365
    • Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Compliance

The compliance capabilities for Teams include:

    • eDiscovery
    • Sensitivity labels
    • Retention Policies
    • Information Barriers
    • Compliance recording
    • Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
    • Communication Compliance