How to become a MS Teams Rockstar
Jose Manuel Voces Garcia
🚀 I help to innovate and digitalize your processes 💪 Digital Workplace Transformation Manager | Project & Change Management PMO | CMO |Document Management and Cloud Computing
Take your collaboration from ‘meh’ to magnificent!
Microsoft Teams has evolved tremendously – with more than 44 million active users every day, no doubt, it’s the rising star of any collaboration tool!
Microsoft Teams features have clearly made it a big success story and become a day-to-day, modern co-worker tool that you can rely on. On the web, desktop, and mobile apps.
As part of Microsoft 365 and aside from SharePoint within Microsoft Teams; you can chat with colleagues, view your agenda, hold meetings and extend your business processes with the Power Platform which we rarely talk about.
Microsoft Teams has evolved tremendously into the Microsoft Ecosystem. With more than 20 million active users every day, no doubt, it’s the rising star of the collaboration stack within the Microsoft 365 era. It has been adapted by 500,000+ organizations, and 91 of the Fortune 100 companies now use it.
Microsoft Teams features have clearly made it a big success story, but what makes it so successful? Before understanding the whole concept and how it integrates with SharePoint, we’ll take a look at what Microsoft Teams really is: To resume it in a few sentences only - Microsoft Teams is the chat-based collaboration solution in Microsoft 365.
It is built on top Office 365 groups and the Microsoft Graph, which is the single endpoint for developers to extend those capabilities. It has the same management, compliance, security, and extendibility model as all other stacks of Microsoft 365 (think of SharePoint and OneDrive for example) for a smooth administration experience.
In addition, Microsoft Teams identities are stored in Azure Active Directory. Needless to say that it uses the same mechanics and engines as any other tool to authenticate, authorize, and store identities. Microsoft Teams is a combination of many tools and serves as a HUB for modern co-workers.
Microsoft Teams is a combination of many tools and serves as a HUB for modern co-workers. It’s a people-unified, data-centric, and very simple-to-use app that will empower every modern co-worker in the organization to use, adapt and extend any of the business processes.
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Technically, whenever you create a “Team” in Microsoft Teams, the provisioning engine will create the following stacks for you: + A new Office 365 group (security) + A SharePoint Site (files) + A shared mailbox and calendar (email) + A Notebook (notes) + Planner Plan (plans)
The following image illustrates that Microsoft Teams is as mentioned above, one simple capability for connecting different stacks. It provides one single experience, one single hub for all new and existing experiences in Microsoft 365.
While both SharePoint and Microsoft Teams facilitate enterprise collaboration with a very solid extension model, they’ve very different artifacts with different goals and purposes. With SharePoint already being almost 20 years old and a major part of any organization (Intranet, Extranet, Public Facing Websites, WCM…) – and Microsoft Teams being the new, next-gen collaboration HUB – many organizations are wondering how both platforms will fit it in their culture. At the end of the day, it’s always a story around the co-workers.
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About the author
A proud author of books that reached half a million downloads and founder of several communities, Gokan is a real community warrior.
He is one of the top influencers in the global Office 365 and SharePoint community, being that he is a Microsoft MVP, RD, and has an active MCT!
Twitter: @xGokan