Microsoft Teams - How-To Articles

Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines workplace instant messaging/chat, video meetings, file storage (including collaboration on files), and integration with Office 365 services.

This page contains a list of links to articles about how to use Microsoft Teams in Office 365.

Disclaimer: The topics and links below were developed by Microsoft below and are accurate at the time of publication, however updates and new additions by Microsoft happen daily. The Microsoft links below may not immediately reflect those updates.

Setting up groups/teams in Microsoft Teams:

• Learn about teams and channels both desktop and mobile
• Find and join a team
• Use a link or code to join a team
• Create a link or code
• See who is on a team
• Create a team from Scratch
• Create a team from an existing team
• Renew a team
• Add people to a team
• Change team settings
• Reorder the teams list
• Join a meeting
• Let everyone know about a new channel or team
• Create a team from an existing group
• Change the default SharePoint site for a team
• Collaborating with Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive
• Share to Teams from Outlook

Teams and channels - people and their conversations:

• Favorite or unfavorite a team
• Find out more information about a teammate
• Message everyone on a team
• Add content and notes to a team
• Make a public team private
• Make someone a team owner
• Team owner, member, and guest capabilities in Teams
• Leave a team
• Remove someone from a team
• Delete a team
• Archive or restore a team

Work in channels - specific topics:

• Create a new channel
• Delete a channel
• Create a private channel
• Change a channel name
• Start a channel conversation
• See who is in a channel
• See all channels in a team
• Check a channel for notification
• Send an email to a channel - reply - view - email failures
• Start a channel conversation
• Manage who can send email to a channel
• Auto-favorite channels for the whole team

Chat using Teams:

• Teams can have standard or private channels
• Create a group chat
• Delete a chat in Teams for personal and small business use
• Favorite or un favorite a chat
• Mute a chat - Delete a chat - Leave a chat

Using files in Teams:

• Explore the files list
• Edit a file
• Download a file
• Share a file
• Share a file with someone outside your team
• Get a link to a file
• Move or copy files
• Sync file libraries to a team
• Recover deleted files
• File storage

Add Guests:

• Add guests to a team
• Guest capabilities
• Set guest permissions
• Add a contact
• See who's on a team or in a channel

Disclaimer: The content above is accurate at the time of publication, however updates and new additions by Microsoft happen daily. The Microsoft links above may not immediately reflect those updates.

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