Overview
What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
Overpriced school project
Microsoft Teams and no Team Spirit
Teams is the best - but not perfect
We use it for immediate peer communications, meetings, file sharing, …
Microsoft Teams - Excellent Collaborative Tool
The Integrated Collaboration Platform for Efficient Teams
Could do better
In principle I am very disappointed when using Microsoft Teams.
Great Communcatino and Collaboration Tool
Teams makes Teamwork efficient and fun :-)
Microsoft Teams - Gives a local experience to a remote employee
- Voice calling
- Chatting &
- Team meetings (Audio & Video)
- File sharing
I'm on Team Teams!
Teams a Good tool for an organization
Great collaboration tool for personal and business needs
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Popular Features
- Chat (190)8.888%
- Discussions (177)8.484%
- Notifications (189)8.080%
- Mobile Access (174)7.878%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
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Pricing
Free
$0.00
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$5.00
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$12.50
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $5 per month
Features
Project Management
Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation
- 7.4Task Management(137) Ratings
This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.
- 6.2Gantt Charts(70) Ratings
Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.
- 7.8Scheduling(153) Ratings
Scheduling capabilities allow users to set schedules on tasks, and create timelines and milestones.
- 6.5Workflow Automation(95) Ratings
Workflow automation is the ability to route work requests along an approval process automatically.
- 7.8Mobile Access(174) Ratings
Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.
- 7.3Search(160) Ratings
Users can search for related materials across files, discussions threads, schedules, etc. using project keywords or tags.
- 6.5Visual planning tools(111) Ratings
Includes visual tools such as pinboards, mind-maps, or charts for collaborative brainstorming and/or workflow planning.
Communication
Features that allow team members to communicate about collaborative projects and keep each other informed of their opinions and progress.
- 8.8Chat(190) Ratings
Instant messaging tool allows users to communicate with select other users in real-time threads.
- 8Notifications(189) Ratings
Users can follow other users and/or join specific projects, electing to receive notifications when there are changes and updates.
- 8.4Discussions(177) Ratings
Users can join groups or message boards for forum-style collaboration.
- 7.2Surveys(104) Ratings
Users can create and participate in surveys to get input from other collaborators.
- 6.9Internal knowledgebase(117) Ratings
Users can author or access “How-to” help and reference tips about internal processes.
- 6.9Integrates with GoToMeeting(47) Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting for web conferencing.
- 6Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts(43) Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts.
- 8.8Integrates with Outlook(156) Ratings
Integrates with Microsoft Outlook to tie in email threads.
File Sharing & Management
Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.
- 7Versioning(122) Ratings
Users can access the most up-to-date version of a document, track changes, and revert to older versions if needed.
- 7.4Video files(150) Ratings
Supports video file types
- 7.5Audio files(152) Ratings
Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav
- 8.1Document collaboration(164) Ratings
Users can edit files and attach comments to files.
- 7.4Access control(148) Ratings
Users can control access to (shared) files, including different levels of access such as view-only or permission to edit.
- 6.9Advanced security features(110) Ratings
Includes advanced security features such as file encryption or remote data wipe.
- 6.1Integrates with Google Drive(53) Ratings
Integrates with Google's cloud storage platform, Google Drive.
- 7.9Device sync(124) Ratings
Device syncing that updates files connected to the cloud, keeping all files up to date regardless of where they are edited or viewed.
Product Details
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- Competitors
- Tech Details
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What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
Microsoft Teams features three tiers of pricing. The first is a subscription-less, free option that offers the same features as the other two tiers but does not offer administration tools like analytics and access to on-premise servers, or support features like 24/7 phone and web support. The second and third tiers are based on the size of your business and its conferencing needs. Its “Office 365 Business Premium” option starts at $12.50 a month per user, with a required annual commitment, and its “Office 365 E3” option for enterprises starts at $20 a month per user, also with a required annual commitment.
Key Features
Meetings: Meet with teams of 10 or 10,000. Host audio, video, and web
conferences with anyone inside or outside your organization or go big with live
events.
Calling: Its Phone System feature enables PBX capabilities including
call control in Office 365 and replaces on-premises PBX. Its calling features
are customizable to fit your organization’s unique needs.
Microsoft Teams Competitors
Microsoft Teams Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews
(1-25 of 189)Microsoft Teams and no Team Spirit
- Teams works very well with the rest of the Microsoft suite
- Real time collaboration and document editing
- Less expensive than Zoom
- The overall meeting experience is not good
- Limited channels
- Tough to keep up with naming conventions
- No picture enhancement
Teams is the best - but not perfect
We use it for immediate peer communications, meetings, file sharing, project collaboration and global notifications and management.
Teams allows us to stay connected in a virtual environment and be as unified just as effectively if we were in the office together.
- Virtual meetings - ease of set up and execution
- File sharing! We build channels for projects, and being able to invite only project members is huge!
- Peer-to-peer communications - being able to "ping" one of my colleagues, either text, video or call-only, on-demand, is what runs our business.
- Collaborating with external project members; the process and functionality is still not obvious, nor is it optimal - I would call it "kludgy"
- Creating different Channels for projects is still a bit wonky, that area of fleshing out freedom to create new channels in a more open directory metaphor seems lost - everything tends to be too tied to your initial folder permissions which is stifling
- Scheduling meetings from within Teams - all too often I schedule meetings that include outside collaborators/stakeholders, and they simply never get the invites. I have to copy the meeting info, create a calendar event in Outlook, add in the meeting info, and add the external stakeholders from there. It would seem an easy fix to better integrate Outlook calendar and Teams calendar.
- Direct peer collaboration
- Project management
- Sharing of project files
Less appropriate:
- External vendor collaboration
- Virtual meetings esp. with external collaborators
Microsoft Teams - Excellent Collaborative Tool
- It has a presentation mode, video recording, and the recordings, as well as the transcripts, are stored in the cloud.
- Microsoft Teams is simple to set up and manage. Excellent quality for video and phone calls.
- I also like how it connects to Outlook so you can view your calendar there.
- Switching between presentations and screens is a bit difficult.
- It slows down the laptop. When I turn on my laptop, it takes a long time for Microsoft Teams to load and I don't have to click on it to access it.
- There should be an easier way to send recordings outside of your organization other than downloading from Stream.
The Integrated Collaboration Platform for Efficient Teams
- Audio and VideoConferences
- Messages betwen work temas
- Schedule meetings
- Integration with Microsoft 365 tools
- To get better support
- To make this software more intuitive
- Improve document sharing
Could do better
- removes the pain from scrolling through endless long mail threads with mail signatures taking up most of the screen space
- quick way to reach out to colleagues via message or voice call
- integration with landline phone
- share documents with certain colleagues or external partners
- sometimes choses the wrong microphone (internal instead of headset) resulting in bad audibility
- new version 2 lacks some features from old version
- often it doesn't ring in the mobile app
Great Communcatino and Collaboration Tool
Likewise we can set up integrations such as notification from other softwares
Channels/Teams can be created to message and collaborate with specific people
- Screen sharing
- Sharing screen control
- Conference Call
- Collaboration on files
- Integration with Microsoft Office softwares
- Can create groups to collaborate and communicate
- Real time file editing between multiple members
- Client for Linux based OS can be improved
Teams makes Teamwork efficient and fun :-)
- Screen-sharing capability
- Team chat
- Force-call attendees who are late to the call
- The polls functionality is hard to find
- Presenting a document and seeing people's faces is not easy
- Muting a participant requires multiple clicks
Microsoft Teams - Gives a local experience to a remote employee
- Voice calling
- Chatting &
- Team meetings (Audio & Video)
- File sharing
- Audio quality in meetings
- Conferencing without any voice problems
- Easy File sharing
- Integration of AI for writing suggestions
- Facility of voice message like WhatsApp
- Rest all is good
A very good fit for any organization where remote working culture is promoted.
I really don't see any situation where Teams is not appropriate
I'm on Team Teams!
- Organisation
- Co-ordination
- Communication
- Sometimes employees complain that online status sticks on offline when they are not and obviously this can cause big problems when employees are remote and it looks as though they aren't working when they are
Teams a Good tool for an organization
- we use channel-wise teams like production channel, quality channel, UAT channel
- We use video conference for team awards and celebrations
- we schedule the calendar for the whole month for planning the activites
- In mobile it is lagging they have to improve in mobile function working area
- When we are using it for town hall meetings it will be hang because of huge audience
- Delay in Notification need to improve
If we have less users it is not much effectively used so it is good for larger users to manage the work in the any organization .
Microsoft Teams definitely improved collaboration and team work in our company.
It's great tool for personal and business needs!
- Team work simplification
- Integrated with other Microsoft products
- Instant Chats
- Video Calls can be better
- Confusing File Structure
- Improve Search. There's no possibility to go to the original message, it just shows you all found messages in one window
- chat with colleagues in a private chat
- make audio/video calls
- host online meetings
- attend and host virtual conferences
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- It's "free" for almost every company that has MS products.
- User Interface
- Bandwidth needs
- General Collab features availability (comparing with other platforms)
Microsoft Teams a centralized application
- Setting up meetings and record them
- Integrates natively with Outlook and one drive/Sharepoint
- Create teams channels for specific tasks/projects and the conversation will be backed up along with files.
- When you download files, the application can lag and even crash, this portion needs to be improved.
- One to one calls cant be recorder unless you set up a meeting.
- slowness when opening a file in the app, like a excell sheet.
- Add meeting reminders when the meeting is about to start similar to Outlook.
Teams reviewed
- Presence
- Messaging
- Usability across platforms
- Screen sharing ease of use
- Conference call delegates
Web Teams doesn't work well with Chrome and you may need to install App (Android).
Microsoft Teams works great for all communication types (audio, video, chat, and sharing content)
- Audio calls both internally and publicly (PSTN)
- Group meetings with audio/video/screen-sharing
- Chatting with contacts
- Providing present status of team members so that you know if colleagues are available or busy
- Providing call health settings to identify the round trip time and percentage of received packet loss
- Multi-organization account access is poor because it requires logging out in order to switch accounts
- Lacking presence status and file access to account that one is no longer logged in to
- Add ability to import a customized avatar
- Provide a means for chatting with other members of our team
- Schedule teams meetings without need for a 3rd party app
- Create teams groups to disseminate information
- Teams meetings frequently drop calls and needs to be re-dialed.
- Searching for words in Teams is not the best.
- Colleague Search
- Instant Messaging
- Voice Calls
- Video Calls
- Access publicly available information
- I'd like the option to keep myself "available" even when I'm away from my laptop so everyone knows they can reach out to me. It doesn't have to show me as "away" every time I start using my browser or step away from my laptop.
- A full screen presentation mode
- The option to see thumbnails of all participants, regardless of the number
Suited for organizations with global workforce
Suited for collaboration, inter departmental or otherwise
Not suited for organizations with smaller teams
Not suited for organizations who only have 1 or 2 physical locations
Not suited for teams where collaboration is not important
Not suited for trainings and workshops
- Great user experience
- Chat functionality embedded within each meeting
- Well sync'd with Outlook
- Can crash every now and then
- Camera freezes - need to fix this defect which seems quite regular
- Mobile app video call experience is lacking
Not well suited - if using outside of work and users don't have the app downloaded on their machine
Software that makes sense but is not yet perfect.
- One meeting place for teamworking
- Instant messaging between members of a team
- Intégration with OneNote
- Intégration with ToDo
- Conflict with the choice of input when using headphones with an integrated microphone and an independent microphone, a problem that does not exist on zoom.
- Changing from one access to another for people with multiple accesses to Microsoft Office 365
- Access to the Teams universe for people outside the company who must have the same levels of access (subcontractor, volunteers in the case of non-profit organizations).
Love using Microsoft Teams!
- Connect people immediately
- Has both video & audio functionality
- Intertwined with Outlook
- Restarts are almost expected
- Not too glitchy
- Honestly excellent product overall
Great teamwork possible in Microsoft Teams!
- Real-time updated Microsoft Teams status of other users (i.e. immediate status changes of 'online', 'away', and 'busy' amongst all healthcare organization computers).
- Integration with Microsoft Outlook is excellent - workplace meeting invitations accepted on Outlook will synchronize with Microsoft Teams automatically and allow easy viewing (e.g. accepted Outlook invite to video teaching session will be integrated into Microsoft Teams calendar).
- Aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly interface - easy to initiate workplace 'chats' with staff present on a particular day.
- Integrating a crop tool to edit screenshots sent over Microsoft Teams would be useful! Currently have to use the Paint app first.
- Having a wider range of GIFs and emoticons available for use on the platform.
- Intermittent problems with connectivity soon after password changes for 2-3 days. Requires manual login however Microsoft Teams soon synchronizes with the new password.
Microsoft Teams is a sure-fire go-to for educational customers
- Messaging
- Video lessons
- Group communications
- Training
- Management of 'expired' groups
- Website support
Microsoft Teams is the best tool for company to connect with people
- casual chat
- team meetings
- quick evaluation and appraisal
- share information and planning projects
- More choice of background
- More emoji's
- More video clips to show how to use it beyond a team collaboration tool
A solid product for livestream courses and meetings
- Video conferencing
- Microsoft forms
- Voting
- Sharing screen
- Displaying multiple things at once, i.e. participants, chat, main screen, etc.
- Notifications. Currently, there are multiple notifications for the same thing, such as a phone call. They could be put in one place
- There could be a frequently used teams window.
Good features - key USP is part of the Microsoft ecosystem
- Easy to use interface
- Easy to create and manage multiple teams and offices
- A bit clunky sometimes
- The meetings have a maximum screen capacity so you can't view everyone all at once