What is Microsoft Teams? How to use the new version. (2021)

<p>Full tutorial of the end-to-end experience that makes it easier for you to communicate and work more effectively with your teams. Aya Tange, Microsoft Teams Product Manager, joins host Jeremy Chapman to walk through some of the core capabilities and highlight all the updates along the way.</p> <p>Teams brings together three main experiences:</p> <p>• Chat, so you can collaborate with your team</p> <p>• Meetings and calling, so you can always stay connected</p> <p>• Apps and automation of your everyday business workflows</p> <p>We've been working around the clock to make sure you have the best experience possible, which includes optimizing the service and bringing new experiences that allow you to have a natural human connection when using Teams – whether that's joined from the office, from home, or remotely. Dive into our Quick Links to see each new update in detail:</p> <p>► QUICK LINKS:</p> <p>00:00 - Introduction</p> <p>02:40 - Chat- call, video chat, share content, and multiple chats</p> <p>03:12 - Teams- invite-only channels, thread messages, rich-text editing, and tabs</p> <p>07:34 - Pre-join screen- new audio and video controls and background effects</p> <p>08:54 - Dynamic view- adjusts to prioritize what's most important</p> <p>09:45 - Large gallery view- supports up to 49 people</p> <p>10:04 - Together mode- brings your Team into one virtual shared space</p> <p>10:57 - AI capabilities- will remove distracting background noise</p> <p>11:29 - Live captions- see who is speaking</p> <p>12:09 - Live transcription- see the full transcript accessible in the meeting chat</p> <p>13:30 - Manage tasks- new unified view to track everything you need to do</p> <p>► Link References:</p> <p>Watch our seven-part Teams series at <a href= "https://aka.ms/MicrosoftTeamsforIT.">https://aka.ms/MicrosoftTeamsforIT.</a></p> <p>See how to have multiple copies of Microsoft Teams open <a href= "https://aka.ms/wfhmechanics.">https://aka.ms/wfhmechanics.</a></p> <p>Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? We are Microsoft’s official