How to use Microsoft Teams

[@zaggnutt]

This is the best overview I have seen anywhere! No fluff. No chit chat. Solid info. Thank you! I broke down the time stamps for my users, so I thought I'd share it with you. 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Downloading Teams 2:30 The Desktop Experience Overview 3:30 The Teams Pivot (tab) 3:50 Teams Channels 4:30 Teams management and use 5:20 Channel management and use 6:20 Posts and conversations 9:00 The Activity Pivot (tab) 9:55 The Chat Pivot (tab) 10:54 The Calendar Pivot (tab) 11:09 Creating a New Meeting 12:20 How to Join a Team Meeting 12:40 Configuring your options in a Video Meeting 16:00 The Calls Pivot (tab) 16:12 The Files Pivot (tab) 16:29 The Apps Pivot (tab) 16:50 The Search Bar 17:22 The Mobile App 17:40 Advanced Functionality

[@KevinStratvert]

Thanks for taking the time to do this! I've pinned this so others can easily navigate. Cheers!

[@DeoOptimoMaximo85]

@@KevinStratvert Totally agree with Brandon, great and to the point video. Off-topic: You can also edit this into your video if I'm not mistaken?

[@pjritts1]

Agreed. I love the quick pacing. Perfect speed! Thanks.

[@cobes11]

I disagree since 99% of the Teams program is fluff. What a bunch of useless, overly complicated garbage crammed into one stupid thing. Trying to consolidate all programs into one mega program might sound good, but it is stupid. Most people will only use one or two functions of this program that has a thousand functions. What a garbage program. If we want team voice chat and messaging, we use Discord. If we want video conferencing, we use Zoom. If we want shared calendars, we use Gmail. If we want file sharing, we use dropbox. But how many people use ALL of those five things I just mentioned? Probably very very few. and that is just five functions. Expand that to hundreds? Forget it. What a shame.

[@LandyVlad_Rides]

@@cobes11 Yeah but in secure environments many of those are not very good so Teams has a role there.

[@digitalQ33]

I've been in technology for 30 years, you are one of the best presenters I have ever come across, great job!

[@teresaf.rodrigues8558]

I've started using Teams recently, since I've been working at home and I didn't find it very easy to work with at the beginning. So your video was a great help, in a summed up way you gave us an overall view of teams. Thank you!

[@wingame52]

Ditto

[@talkshow69]

No application is easy to work with at the start. Things like these are a great option. However, I would suggest you start messing around with the controls and see what does what. And by doing that, you might get the hang of it. It's like a phone.

[@WasabiDoobie]

I agree! so much can now be centered around teams, it's my work hub.

[@technerd1887]

Never used Teams, but after seeing this I am intrigued. Honestly, it has so many features. It's like messenger, facebook post, discord channel, zoom meeting, ms office in one place! Can't wait to use this app.

[@rjbjajjjmj1]

By far, this was the most helpful and informative bit of instruction and introduction to Microsoft Teams that I've accessed. Truly well done. I recommend it enthusiastically.

[@browneyedgirl4268]

I have started to use this app recently as I am now working from home. My employer has sent me a bunch of written instructions, but I am visual/experimental learner so cannot be dealing with that. I must say this is the best tutorial I have seen; very easy to follow.

[@colegio809]

I would have loved to see more on how to use Teams for school purposes: how to use whiteboard during a meeting, how it prevents from intruders to enter meetings.

[@karierickson4247]

I'm starting a new job on Monday and they use Teams. They said they will teach me, but I feel so much better after watching this! Thanks!

[@iankirkby2217]

Thanks Kevin - really helpful. Having to get up to speed quickly and this has given me a fighting chance! Thanks again.

[@linlinli7004]

Very helpful video. Has been using team in the last 6 months, it was a bit overwhelming. Now I am going to use it everyday. This video covers everything. Well done!

[@thebonafidebeasley]

Kevin, thank you for this wonderful tutorial. My organization is in the process of migrating everything to Office 365, and they're implementing apps incrementally. We will soon be using MS Teams, and being the techie (geek) that I am, I always want to know how to use applications as soon as we have them. Your tutorial provided me with a good understanding of the functionality, so once the organization pushes it out to us, I should be comfortable using it.

[@ShahriarMohammadShoyeb]

Best overview about Microsoft Teams and has been explained clearly and most importantly covered most of the part of Microsoft Teams without unnecessary talking.

[@kimh3322]

Great tutorial on Teams. The experience for me was spot on. Thank you for taking time to put this together

[@DB-po8nj]

Best tutorial I have watched. Broken down into nice sized sections and only relevant information given. Thanks.

[@channahbridgemantorres5698]

Thank Kevin. Great tutorial! Love your pacing, clear delivery. I am fairly new to Teams, was just using what I needed to in order to keep up with a project. Your tutorial has filled in the 'gaps' for me.

[@dawndipre4905]

I've been ignoring Team since my organization launched it. I haven't had time to teach myself. In 20 minutes you gave me a great job off to be able to work really well in this platform. Thanks

[@reneecornelius8924]

Thank so much for the video!! My whole team recently went to work from home due to coronovirus....we needed this!!!!

[@kymbishop9943]

Excellent video! I am preparing for a job interview and your video was so helpful! Microsoft Teams is a preferred requirement for the job but I have never used it before. After watching your video, I feel much more confident I can comfortably learn to use Microsoft Teams for the job. Thanks again!

[@Aliusmi]

The most simple and well explained video I’ve watched on the KZbin. Understandable and easy and made me subscribe.👍🏻

[@jefedubois5333]

My company had us attend a webinar on teams because we transitioning away from Skype business and this seems to be a more efficient method. Especially working remotely. The webinar lasted an hour and I honestly tuned out after about 10 minutes. I watched this video and. It only do I have a pretty good understanding of the teams I have ideas on how to use it for my team that o work with. I’m more excited to be using it now then I was after the webinar. This video taught me more in 20 minutes than the hour long webinar.

[@sulowell]

This was the best introduction to Teams I've seen: perfect pace, understandable, easy to follow. Am very glad I found it after trying a bunch of other tutorials. Thank you so much!

[@donnawitty4663]

Brilliant overview of Teams. I am applying for a job and they use Microsoft teams as their CRM. Watching this video has given me a great overview of how Teams works. I my previous job I used SLACK. I have to say just watching the tutorial I love the richness that Teams offers. Fingers crossed I get the job and get to use Teams in real time.

[@susanclark1778]

Interested as a few others to see how to do the status column on files tab- pretty sweet! Thanks- great overview

[@horaciofigueroa2727]

Hi I'm also interested in this. In Sharepoint you have the option to create Choice Columns, but I don't see the dropdown list to select a choice on Teams. Nice feature, but not to intuitive to use

[@gordongraham7]

I love your videos. I've learned more from your tutorials than I've ever learned anywhere else. Every time I watch one, I think "Oh, I need to share this with my team!" This one is no exception. You rock!

[@HeadsetAdvisor]

Agreed!

[@monicahidrovo4007]

Great tutorial. Well conducted and paced. Easy to follow. Starting to migrate my dept into Teams for a more centralized collaboration model and I can already see the possibilities! Thank you.

[@chrismedhurst-cocksworth71]

This is a superb intro to Teams - I have posted this across my company as we start to use teams during the Lockdown. BY FAR THE VERY BEST EXPLANATION!!! Well done

[@louisehawkins2924]

Great video, my employer has just started using Teams and I have to come up with some workflows for how to manage sensitive information for my national team. This was very helpful as a first starting point in learning about it.

[@sophies2071]

Perfect length .. not too long ... a good foundations video to build on! Easy to follow along and stay focused on what was being presented.

[@kevinpickering4958]

Thanks for this. Very interesting. Is there a specific tutorial on setting up a learning workshop for external, not part of your company, contacts/clients?

[@harneetkhurana6069]

This video is by far better than the whole of Microsoft support combined.

[@sendittou]

I swear if I have to install one more app- School: *Homework on powerschool*

[@VoRTeX.786]

Lol 😂

[@blagoevski336]

I have like 10 apps for my online classes

[@shadowrange]

Me too...sick of all this disparate tech

[@4everThoughtful]

It's so great to watch and listen to an instructional/informative presentation without filler words (ah, um, okay, like, you know...etc). It lets me know that the presenter knows his/her topic and can present well. Thank you for an excellent presentation.

[@meles8143]

That was all I needed. Thank you.

[@Only4you-y6f]

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[@m.philip]

We recently got MS Teams. Must admit it’s the best collaboration tool i have ever used. This overview session is so good for anyone to begin with.

[@victorengkuan3654]

I am one of your subscriber

[@hkkh7363]

This was very helpful. Great pace. I came here because interviewed with a company that uses MS Teams and I've never used it before.

[@detradudley5295]

This was a great video on how to get started using Microsoft Teams.. I look forward to move upcoming content.

[@meechie284119]

I want to say thank you for walking us through Teams I feel more confident now thanks so so much.🤗

[@annagarcia692]

Hi Kevin, thanks for this. Can you do one on creating Flows? particularly setting up for form approvals. Thanks!

[@caroljcatlin4725]

A beginner, I am accessing Teams because our group will be using it next month instead of ZOOM. There's a lot to LEARN! I've actually backed up the video to listen to your presentation to help it sink in! ") Bit by bit. Thank you for making it available.

[@melaniepostmus81]

I'd like a video on using Microsoft Stream together with Teams for remote teaching

[@JAx0211]

Kevin, you've become my must-watch KZbin channel. Thank you. Keep posting these awesome videos related to Microsoft, especially Teams. Extremely helpful, thanks to you I've been more efficient.

[@aprilcook8475]

I've been trying to find instructions on how to add attendees to a recurring Teams meeting without sending an update to everyone who is already invited. Perhaps we need training on setting up meetings in Teams.

[@charliez80]

Just started a job that requires Teams. Thanks for helping me understand the basics

[@victorengkuan3654]

Hi Kevin, thank you so much for sharing this!!!

[@wigglewomyn1]

I really enjoyed this video. Our office is going to start using Microsoft Teams and I knew nothing about it. I enjoyed your presentation, what you went over and the different things you showed.

[@tonditerhaar129]

When conferencing with several people, is there a setting that allows me to see their faces simultaneously?

[@munali3417]

it is blocked by the adminstrator only teachers can

[@epicplayz6951]

@@munali3417 iam a teacher..will u please let me know what is that setting..

[@funmajorvids3913]

@@epicplayz6951 if you click on the three dots on the top and click large gallery you can see everyone's faces

[@angiehunte2521]

mix

[@hyunjinsamericanhoe1078]

@@epicplayz6951 click the three dots also don’t go hard on your students 🙃

[@natashaillsley4613]

Thank you, Kevin! 'm starting a new job and needed some Teams basics to boost my confidence. This was just what I needed!

[@grahamefeltis6559]

You very much glossed over the requirements for using Teams. As I understand it as a single home user I cannot use Teams, I must have an association with a company or school that has Microsoft 365. This does not make sense to me. 1:10 of video. This means that if someone wants to, for example, interview me for a job while I am at home on my home PC or Mac, this is not possible?

[@fermorg3594]

I got the same question.

[@joemoloisane3221]

I have been using teams for a while and always thought i was good but this video made me an expert

[@nickjarvistaninternational347]

Hi Kevin, thanks for the tutorial! May I ask what was the mic you used to record this video? The audio was really good. Cheers!

[@KevinStratvert]

Hey Nick - I use the Rode NT USB mic as my main mic. I really like the mic and I did a video on it a little while back. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4TMe4GoeZp4sJo It'll set you back about $170.

[@geraldinevargas6998]

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[@geraldinevargas6998]

Rrg

[@mariannesitcov7824]

Thank you! I am a teacher and this was so much better than any training my school gave us. I appreciate it!

[@calendarcalendar3838]

Teams was installed at my workplace and everyone given access... but no Training ⛔📖. Of the 250 workers, 200+ are confused as hell, 20 are just confused, and 30 (administrators/dept head/managers) think this is the greatest thing in the world. Sometimes a "Great Stapler" makes a "Lousy Hammer." Common question at work, "my haven't you responded to my Teams message?" "I don't get on the computer but once a week..." "It's company policy you have to log in daily..." Nobody logs in daily. Just the elect 30... who got and paid for Teams. Seems to work for them.👍

[@janetjasven9808]

That was an excellent tutorial. I applied for a job and they use team. Now I can tell them I can use it. Thank you.

[@abnerlall6764]

When i use my laptop it glitches and throws me off and i have to rejoin again and again , do u have any suggestions , how to fix it

[@Starry217]

Brawl stars lol

[@fatjonandou6056]

Thank you Kevin for this video. It's my first time using Microsoft Teams and I really needed this.

[@JaguarPaw1]

How to use Zoom with Microsoft Eam that's what I'm interested in learning and can you put it simultaneously on Yoube and Facebook at the same time?

[@monikagupta3878]

Awesome video Kevin, crisp, clear and very useful!!!

[@EperkeDashh]

Me: Watches a tutorial of teams 5 seconds later: Discord server copy

[@Starry217]

Why brawl stars everyone this game grew yay

[@beckynyaki4628]

I appreciate your enthusiasm and the love you put into this work of educating people. You are the best. Thank you.

[@AwaisKhan-ij2uy]

Pakt

[@jasjassi7823]

Who else came her because their teacher sent a link?

[@seliyahsfairys]

Blue Lightning me

[@estherharvest5295]

Me

[@boggless2771]

came here because as a Math Tutor, our school is stopping us from using discord =( Discord is just so much better.

[@marktwain368]

Not 'there' teacher...it's 'their' teacher.

[@mevelyn9619]

Very very helpful. Now I want to use Microsoft Team. My organization provided a how to video, and it had way to much information and it put me to sleep. I will be sharing this video to my office, so we can start using this right away. Thanks.

[@masontromero]

**New Info: Microsoft made Teams free for business/school accounts currently due to the COVID situation

[@tanushreemaheshwari6239]

Very great video Mr Kevin Stratvert what you explain about Microsoft Teams in very simplest manner . From that video I learned about what is Microsoft Teams and it uses .

[@harrym8556]

Good overview, but MS Teams is pathetic. No way to login to multiple accounts if you work in more than one organizations. Slack has that. Audio and video quality is abysmal. Zoom has very professional, high quality audio and video. The list goes on and on. MS Teams quality is even worse than skype.

[@ivanrojasreischel]

Harry M , sorry but I disagree, MS Teams is not perfect but is not pathetic at all. I work at a big company ( several thousands of employees) and around 75% of us have been using it intensively from home for the last 6 months, sharing files and having meetings, and chats all day, and the quality of service has been pretty good in general.

[@kaskahea1274]

THIS was better than my EMPLOYER WHo doesn't teach us ANYTHING!!! THANK YOU!! 🙏

[@Kromersbandorgan]

Tooo much information too quickly, my brain is hurting.

[@TheSimonwoodward]

Best overview I've found. One recommendation though. Please enhance the size & colour of the mouse pointer/cursor so that it doesn't get lost from sight as it flies around the screen.

[@Singimona123]

Thanx a lot Kevin. My name is Singi from South Africa. I am a lecturer and I teach through Microsoft Teams. I like microsoft teams, but there are few things I dont understand. 1. How to invite my students? - Do I have to send to each and everyone, and how - How to get their emails? 2. how to run a test with them? - How to mark them, assignments and tests?

[@omega4568]

I love your videos! You get to the point with clarity. I will continue using your videos like tutorials for "Teams". Thank you!

[@lisahanrahan6396]

Thanks for the tutorial, best video I have seen. Even better than our organisation tech department.

[@johnwallace3813]

Very nice overview from a good speaker. Great job Kevin. I look forward to more of your videos as I learn to use this product,

[@dwynewickliffedesignstudio130]

Awesome Work Bonito! Totally helped me understand this Powerful Microsoft tool for work! Thanks for making this!

[@thoufeekhahamed2163]

Although I am using Teams for 6 months, learnt some good new features. Thanks

[@rosbenolivera9245]

Hello Kevin, thanks for this tutorial. My name is Rosben and I am a language teacher and translator in Mexico. I have been trying to share with my colleagues this wonderful tutorial about Microsoft Temas but I noticed that it does not have subtitles in Spanish and some of them do not speak English. I would like to generate a translation in Spanish and if you are interested and liked it you can add it to the video as subtitles. Please let me know if this is something that interest you. I am not trying to profit from it, I just want to help make it available for others because I find your tutorials pretty useful.

[@THEVILLAIN___]

Im getting into school next week and this vid is really helpful

[@virginiaholmes9856]

thanks Kevin, this will be so helpful when using Teams for the first time in my new job ! one thing I need to understand is whether most people now only use Outlook when they need a paper trail if they need to retain copies of specific messages i.e. when needing to file an electronic copy. Tia

[@jarredjackson6883]

Awesome content - from an instructional perspective red arrows pointing out where you'd like the viewer to focus would make this even better.

[@simaniter]

Team is great 👍👍👍 great way to stay connected with coworkers in lockdown time

[@caitlintamboer5685]

Amazing! 👏This application is so useful. Thanks for this tutorial.

[@jonathanv4050]

Great video! Straight to the point. Thanks!

[@robgreen2050]

Very well done. Professional and concise.

[@paulamcgovern5067]

Excellent overview, Thank you. Speaks very fast and had to keep rewinding but by far the best I have seen.

[@TzurDanny]

The most simple and well explained video

[@sandymorocco]

Kevin, you are my go to for all things Microsoft. I have increased my skills by your training. A suggestion, if you could change your mouse in settings to slightly larger and perhaps a colored, it will help with eye tracking, when you are pointing to anything. The small arrow is like following a gnat, because it is small, with thin outline. I want to be helpful, not critical.

[@KevinStratvert]

Thanks for the feedback Sandy! Newer videos have a larger mouse and cursor highlighting. Let me know if this is sufficient or whether I should do more. Cheers!

[@ladybrew8167]

Very helpful! My office is switching from Skype to Teams in the beginning of April. I’m eager to embrace the functionality of Teams!

[@KevinStratvert]

Best of luck!

[@bharathkrishna7545]

Thank you so much for making this video . It is very useful.

[@RighardtMarais]

Thanks Kevin, nice overview. The most confusion from fellow colleagues are around meeting calls - where does it get done? I see there are 3 areas : 1. Calendar pivot - schedule a meeting and you join the call 2. Teams pivot - inside a team section you have channels and can click the "Meet Now" button 3. Chat pivot - create a chat group and then call the chat group So people don't know where to create their chats like eg. Developer Standup meeting - should that be a Calendar meeting because it's a scheduled daily morning meeting? or should it be a channel you dial every morning and its organised in the Teams pivot space or a less organised chat dial inside the Chat pivot space. What is best practice for these? I have my Change & Release meeting scheduled in the Calendar, but then maybe its better to have it inside a Team Pivot called Change & Release with a channel called CAB meeting. And I just call that then all the discussion is inside a team channel.

[@incredibleh7353]

You are awesome !! I learned a lot.

[@fredbomze4868]

Great overview and a god jump start for us novices. Looking forward to delving into this as I love details...

[@thestoryofrose]

Great tutorial, thank you so much Kevin!

[@nancykoopmann3590]

Thanks so much for creating this video Kevin its my first intro to Teams and now I am not so overwhelmed. A special thanks to Brandon for the timestamps, so I can go back and review once i have created some teams. I would love a video that discusses the differences between a Team Site in Sharepoint vs a Team Site in Teams and when you would use SP vs Teams. I get confused between Sharepoint Groups, Teams, DL's, O365 Groups. My background is: I am currently a SP On-Prem Admin who needs to install O365 and migrate to SP On-line and then I will become the O365 Global Admin and SP- Online Admin

[@sherlynjoydomincil2967]

Thank you sir Kevin. I learned a lot from your discussions. I hope I can deliver the usage of Microsoft Teams efficiently to my colleagues. 😇

[@jamesbell8861]

thanks. I'm starting a new project tomorrow. This will be a great tool for my group of ruggamuffins to collaborate with.

[@maryse8]

You did a great job, Kevin! My university has just jumped on the bandwagon. We're figuring out best practices for possible reopening in the fall. I'm not very technologically proficient, so you really helped a lot.

[@LL-lb4jh]

Excellent Kevin- Very clear direction. Keep up the great work.

[@francisseiler1971]

Rick - am smart 77 yr old attorney honing my WFH tech skills. Your presentations would be much easier for a beginner to follow (= user friendly) if the cursor was embedded in a 1-1.5" shadowed circle, as I saw in one of your previous presentations. Otherwise, you are very smart, often effective, and a credit to your organization. Frank Seiler, Esq.

[@KevinStratvert]

Thanks for the feedback! More recent videos have this improvement. Here's a more recent video on Teams: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHWngaKPhLaMnK8

[@flaviarodricks3230]

This is very useful and surely helped me to a great extent. Thank you Kevin.

[@farrukhazad]

nice work dear friend , like ur work and video , nice share ,complete watch

[@JamesBond-cp3cb]

simply superb.....awesome video..thank u so much for u r valuable information