Microsoft is hoping Teams will now no longer simply be how enterprise customers collaborate on everyday paintings however additionally a easy manner for smaller companies to construct groups for personnel or clients.
The private model of Teams is loose and constructed into Windows 11, and hundreds of thousands of human beings have already got the loose Microsoft account they want to apply it on Macs, iOS and Android devices. Now Microsoft is including a brand new network revel in to the present chat and calendar functions in private Teams.
What are Communities in Microsoft Teams?
Communities in Microsoft Teams are invitation-best institution areas for chat, conferences, sharing records and usually organizing and collaborating. This Communities feature (Figure A) can be beneficial for small companies that need to attach and talk with companies of clients or for coworkers to control paintings-associated occasions like group lunches or employer parties.
Communities are to be had now in iOS and Android customers and are “coming soon” (to cite Microsoft) to computer Teams customers. You can use Communities withinside the loose model of Teams, Microsoft 365 Personal, Microsoft 365 Family and Teams Essentials in case you check in with a Microsoft account.
How to apply Communities in Microsoft Teams
You can create a network from scratch or pick one of the 8 templates withinside the app, even though those simply prepopulate the appropriate emoji because the header, and icon and you may simply as without difficulty choose an emoji or picturegraph yourself.
Like groups withinside the organisation model, groups are primarily based totally on Microsoft 365 Groups, however the functions are simplified: A network has a talk channel and a calendar wherein you may prepare occasions (which may be Teams conferences however don`t need to be – you may fill withinside the cope with for a real-global occasion and get a map displaying the location) plus a record list.
Any photos, net hyperlinks or documents that human beings connect to their chat messages get delivered to the network, and you may fast clear out out to peer simply the ones the use of the Events, Photos, Links and Files buttons on the top. Currently, there isn`t a button for filtering simply to movies, however Microsoft says that`s coming (and the movies we uploaded didn`t display up withinside the Files clear out out).
You can choose a record from interior Microsoft Teams via way of means of including it as an attachment while you write a talk message out of your nearby tool or linked cloud storage, or you may choose Teams as a proportion goal from some other app after which pick the network you need to publish it in. Share a PDF or an image, and all of us can see it and save. Share an Office record like a letter different human beings on your enterprise want to apply as a template or an Excel spreadsheet with the info of some thing you`re all running on and different network contributors can see it, after which open it to edit. Changes a person else makes will display up withinside the record for all of us, so that you can use this as an clean manner to collaborate on documents.