Introducing Microsoft Teams as a hub for teamwork

By Balu Ilag

Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Office 365 which bring lot of features like, Chat, calls & meetings, file content, easy integration with Office 365 apps, flexible for each team with security and governance. Teams has a workspace where employee and their team can securely edit their work files at the same time and see likes, @mentions, and replies with just a single click. Teams gives platform that employees and their teams can make its own by adding notes, web sites, integrate application and customize experience in the cloud without location boundaries.

Microsoft Teams makes employees more productive giving all required capabilities like, chat, audio/video call, file and folders, meetings and many more which their team needs.

Microsoft Teams leverages Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to store identity information and Teams integrate with the other services within Office 365, when you create Teams, a SharePoint online site and an Exchange Online group mailbox get created for each team.

Teams persistent chat capability is provided by a chat service that interacts with the Office 365 substrate, surfacing many of the built-in Office 365 capabilities, such as archiving and eDiscovery to the data being exchanged in Teams.

Teams also provides a calling and meetings experience that is built on the next generation cloud-based infrastructure that is also used by Skype and Skype for Business. These technology investments include Azure based cloud services for media processing and signaling, H.264 video codec, SILK and Opus audio codec, network resiliency, telemetry, and quality diagnostics. This all makes Teams as unique application.

About the Author

Balu Ilag is a five times Microsoft MVP, MCSE: Communication and MCITP certified professional. He has been working as a consultant with over 12 years of experience working with Microsoft Unified Communication solutions including OCS, Lync and Skype for Business. He also authors administrative blog on Unified Communication and has participated in writing Getting Started with Microsoft Teams book and multiple admin guide for Microsoft TechNet Gallery.

Learn more about in Balu Ilag's book, Introducing Microsoft Teams: Understanding the New Chat-Based Workspace in Office 365, now available in both digital and print formats.