Microsoft Teams Overview

Abstract

These days, communication needs are frequently changing because of the modern workforce, which has evolved to be more focused on team contributions than those of an individual. As technology creates remote and global teams, all users must be able to connect. Microsoft Teams provides all that the modern workforce requires. Teams is a single product that also offers a complete meeting solution, supporting sharing, voice, and video conferencing, allowing users to meet from anywhere. Users can use Teams for all types of meetings-spontaneous or scheduled, formal or informal-with internal and external participants. Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration tool build on a cloud platform that combines various services for collaboration, such as chat, meetings, calling, and files. Teams is tightly integrated with Office 365 and combines multiple workloads into a unified communication and collaboration system. Teams also offers integration capabilities for additional tools and third-party applications. This chapter covers several introductory topics to get you started with Teams. At the end of this chapter, you will be able to describe: • What Microsoft Teams is and what it is used for. • Microsoft Teams architecture and different components involved. • How Microsoft Teams stores data and interacts with SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. • Where Teams stores chat conversations and how Teams interacts with Exchange. • Live events and their architecture. • What Microsoft Stream is used for and its architecture.