Collaboration platform that combines Teams IM, meetings and files powered by SharePoint woven together by Office 365 Groups.
Understand the differences between joining a Microsoft Teams meeting a guest, or as a signed-on user
This guide is intended to support people who have the role of Teams owner.
How to use Microsoft Teams Breakout rooms
This guide provides some tips for using desktop video conferencing software (such as Microsoft Teams), so that you can avoid common new user problems.
As part of the Y2K20 Modern Desktop project, all existing Office 365 Groups are being gradually converted into Teams. In general, when a Group is converted into a Team, all folders and files will be moved into the "General" folder.
Each department has two main teams: one for internal collaboration (i.e. "internal team"), and one for collaborating with users outside of the department (i.e. "external team"). These teams are made up of channels, which are the collaboration spaces within each team in which the actual work is done. Private channels are used to partition each of these teams into sub-teams eliminating the need to create new teams.
A guest is someone who isn't an employee, student, or member of the University of Windsor; they don't have an active UWin Account.
An explanation of the process of setting up a guest account for a external presenter at a Teams Live Event.
Instructions for accessing shared files and e-mails that are stored inside Office 365 Groups that you are subscribed to.
How to setup and conduct a Microsoft Teams Live event for webcasts.
How to reset your audio conferencing PIN
Instructions for adding new members to the group and removing existing members for group's administrator.
There easiest way to find out who are the members of a particular team or gorup is to use Outlook web app.
You can schedule a Teams meeting either in Teams or in Outlook. This article provides step by step instructions.
How to resolve the view limit exceeded error in SharePoint Lists and/or Document Library.
While attempting to share a folder in Sharepoint, user may receive the error message that says "Sorry, we are unable to reach the server right now. Please try again later." This is most likely caused by too many items in a folder being shared.
Before a new member can be added to the private channel, they have to be first added as a member to the team that is hosting the private channel.
When creating a Teams meeting, the default is to let all invitees present and control the meeting. In some cases, this practice may not be desirable. This article shows how the organizer can set the meeting options to limit who can present and control the some meeting options.
When an instructor requests a new Team for their course a team is created using the Class Team template. We try to closely follow the way that courses are named in Brightspace which follows the EDS course section code, over 90% of the time.
This article summarizes the limits associated with Microsoft Teams app, such as how many channels can be added to a team, how many members can be added to a team, how many people can participate in a meeting or a group chat, etc.
This article summarises and explains differences between three different types of channels that can be added to a team to organise its content. It also provides instructions for creating new channels, recovering deleted channels, and discusses some of the limitations associated with channels.
The desktop version of teams has a new meeting experience where all meetings appear in a separate window and several features are added. This article shows you how to turn this on.
Why are we using short codes for departments, and what are the codes?
There may be cases where you want to use the collaboration features of Teams without having to create a separate group, such as a for a student project for a course. This document describes a method of using a persistent chat where you can both communicate with other users, and share files without having to create a new group or team.
Content in a public group can be seen by anybody in your organization. Content in a private group can only be seen by the members of the group.
As 2020 winds down to a close, Microsoft has been busy introducing new features in Teams. This is what's new for November and December.
This article describes best p[practices for working with files stored in Microsoft Cloud, which includes OneDrive and Teams / Office 365 Groups / SharePoint Sites.
The benefit of creating events, such as departmental meetings, on a group calendar is that everyone who's a member of the group can edit these events.
Owner of an Office 365 Group has the ability to edit default permissions of individual folders or even individual files.
When you try to create a folder called "Forms" in Office 365 Group, an error message is displayed informing you that "A file of folder with the name Forms already exists."
In some cases you need to "follow" a group for it to show on the list of groups in OneDrive app on portal.office.com
When trying to open certain .xls files in Excel 2013 that are stored in a subfolder that is nested several layers deep, an error message comes up: "Sorry, we couldn't find <filepath>. Is it possible it was moved, renamed or deleted?"