Tag: Teams

How to use Guest access in Microsoft Teams

Marcel

Source: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Guest-access-in-Microsoft-Teams-bd4cdeec-4044-4b4b-9df1-beb139013a3f?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Guest access in Microsoft Teams allows teams in your organization to collaborate with people outside your organization by granting them access to teams and channels. A guest is someone who isn’t an employee, student, or member of your organization. They don’t have a school or work account with your organization. For example, guests may include partners, vendors, suppliers, or consultants.

Organizations using Microsoft Teams can provide external access to teams, documents in channels, resources, chats, and applications to their partners, while maintaining complete control over their own corporate data.

Microsoft Teams is built upon Office 365 Groups and provides a new way to access shared assets for an Office 365 group. Microsoft Teams is the best solution for persistent chat among group/team members. Office 365 Groups is a service that provides cross-application membership for a set of shared team assets, like a SharePoint site or a Power BI dashboard, so that the team can collaborate effectively and securely.

How a guest joins a team

A team owner in Microsoft Teams can add and manage guests in their teams via the web or desktop. Guests can have any email address, and the email account can be a work, personal, or school account.

Here’s how a guest becomes a member of a team:

  • Step 1 A team owner or an Office 365 admin adds a guest to a team.
  • Step 2 The Office 365 admin or the team owner can manage a guest’s capabilities as necessary. For example, allowing a guest to add or delete channels or disabling access to files.
  • Step 3 The guest receives a welcome email from the team owner, inviting them to join the team. After accepting the invitation, the guest can participate in teams and channels, receive and respond to channel messages, access files in channels, and participate in chat. While using Microsoft Teams, a combination of text and icons gives all team members clear indication of guest participation in a team. For more details, see What the guest experience is like.

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What the guest experience is like

When a guest is invited to join a team, they receive a welcome email message that includes some information about the team and what to expect now that they’re a member. The guest must redeem the invitation in the email message before they can access the team and its channels.

Screenshot shows an example of a welcome email message sent by a team owner in Microsoft Teams to a guest user. The message includes text that can be customized by the team owner and brief descriptions of Teams features like chat, calls, and meetings.

All team members see a message in the channel thread announcing that the team owner has added a guest and providing the guest’s name. Everyone on the team can identify easily who is a guest. As shown in the following screenshot of a sample team, a banner indicates “This team has guests” and a “GUEST” label appears next to each guest’s name.

 

Screenshot shows a portion of the Marketing channel for Northwind Traders, with the notification in the top banner stating "This team has guests" and users who are guests identified with the word "GUEST" next to their name.

The following table compares the Microsoft Teams functionality available for an organization’s team members to the functionality available for a guest user on the team.

Capability in Teams Teams user in the organization Guest user
Create a channel

Team owners control this setting.

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Participate in a private chat checkmark checkmark
Participate in a channel conversation checkmark checkmark
Post, delete, and edit messages checkmark checkmark
Share a channel file checkmark checkmark
Share a chat file checkmark
Add apps (tabs, bots, or connectors) checkmark
Create tenant-wide and teams/channels guest access policies checkmark checkmark
Invite a user via any email address outside the Office 365 tenant’s domain checkmark
Create a team checkmark
Discover and join a public team checkmark
View organization chart checkmark

NOTE: Office 365 admins control the features available to guests.

More information

Administrator settings for Microsoft Teams

Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Teams – Admin Help

Microsoft Teams Survival Guide

Marcel

Source: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/37465.microsoft-teams-survival-guide.aspx

This “Survival Guide” aims to gather useful materials related to Microsoft Teams.  It brings together some of the best information about Microsoft Teams all in one place. These resources can be used to get the best from Microsoft Teams, showing how to implement Microsoft Teams in an organisation and to increase its effectiveness.

Microsoft Teams is the new chat-based collaboration service in Office 365, that is a hub for teamwork with:

  • All content, tools, people, and conversations are available in the team workspace
  • Built-in access to SharePoint, OneNote, and Skype for Business
  • Work on documents right in the app
  • Rich scheduling features inside Microsoft Teams, plus ad-hoc 1-1 and group calling
  • Customizable for each team

Getting Started with Microsoft Teams

Using Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Training

Deployment and adoption

Microsoft Teams for Administrators

Microsoft Teams for Developers

Twitter

The official Microsoft Teams Twitter account is @MicrosoftTeams  .  Some of the Microsoft staff involved with Teams:

Use the hashtag #MicrosoftTeams to discuss Microsoft Teams on Twitter.

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Microsoft Teams in Office 365 for Education: All Teams Welcome

Marcel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZPN435Mppw

Today’s classrooms stretch far beyond the time a teacher and a student sit in a room together. With the new classroom experiences in Teams, we’ve created a digital hub for the connected and collaborative classrooms of the future. All teams welcome.

 

Microsoft introduced a set of educational products and services, inspired by teachers and students, including a new Windows experience called Windows 10 S; new experiences in Microsoft Teams for modern classroom collaboration; new features in Minecraft and mixed reality to spark creativity; a range of Windows 10 S PCs for K-12 classrooms; and the perfect Windows 10 S device for college students—Surface Laptop

Read more at: https://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-event-may-2017/