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.
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
Microsoft Teams Review
Microsoft Teams a centralized application
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Popular Features
- Chat (191)8.888%
- Discussions (178)8.585%
- Notifications (190)8.080%
- Mobile Access (175)8.080%
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
- 7.5Task Management(138) 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.
- 7.9Scheduling(154) Ratings
Scheduling capabilities allow users to set schedules on tasks, and create timelines and milestones.
- 6.7Workflow Automation(95) Ratings
Workflow automation is the ability to route work requests along an approval process automatically.
- 8Mobile Access(175) Ratings
Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.
- 7.4Search(161) Ratings
Users can search for related materials across files, discussions threads, schedules, etc. using project keywords or tags.
- 6.6Visual planning tools(112) 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(191) Ratings
Instant messaging tool allows users to communicate with select other users in real-time threads.
- 8Notifications(190) Ratings
Users can follow other users and/or join specific projects, electing to receive notifications when there are changes and updates.
- 8.5Discussions(178) Ratings
Users can join groups or message boards for forum-style collaboration.
- 7.2Surveys(105) Ratings
Users can create and participate in surveys to get input from other collaborators.
- 7.1Internal knowledgebase(118) Ratings
Users can author or access “How-to” help and reference tips about internal processes.
- 7.1Integrates with GoToMeeting(47) Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting for web conferencing.
- 6.2Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts(43) Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts.
- 8.8Integrates with Outlook(157) Ratings
Integrates with Microsoft Outlook to tie in email threads.
File Sharing & Management
Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.
- 7.1Versioning(122) Ratings
Users can access the most up-to-date version of a document, track changes, and revert to older versions if needed.
- 7.5Video files(151) Ratings
Supports video file types
- 7.6Audio files(153) Ratings
Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav
- 8.1Document collaboration(165) Ratings
Users can edit files and attach comments to files.
- 7.5Access control(149) Ratings
Users can control access to (shared) files, including different levels of access such as view-only or permission to edit.
- 7Advanced security features(111) Ratings
Includes advanced security features such as file encryption or remote data wipe.
- 6.3Integrates with Google Drive(53) Ratings
Integrates with Google's cloud storage platform, Google Drive.
- 8Device 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
- About
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
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
(126-150 of 269)Best collaboration tool out there
- It integrates well with other Microsoft Office products. This is very important for the software to do this, since so many organizations are using other Microsoft products in their environments.
- It pretty much has most common collaboration features that will be utilized by most organizations/companies. This is important since it allows organizations to use only one collaboration tool, rather than multiple tools to get the features they need.
- It allows for granular permissions to be set for different user roles, channels, etc. This is important especially when you might want to set different permissions for internal and external users/collaborators.
- It has a greater learning curve than some other collaboration tools out there. It is more difficult for users to start using without some formal training of the software.
- Setting user permissions can be somewhat complicated, as it's not as straightforward as can be. This requires IT/Admins to really read through technical documentation to be able to set things right.
Microsoft Teams- an alternative for web conferencing
- Ease of joining
- Simple to share screen
- Can accommodate many users
- If a user minimizes Teams to multitask, it is difficult to pull it back up because one has to click twice to pull up the right view.
- For external users, it populates multiple “/////“ before and after their user name, making it difficult to read.
- I’m sure there’s an eventual capacity limit.
- Microsoft Teams is a global way to communicate, and we reach to people easily using the tool.
- Microsoft Teams creates a direct chance of file sharing, with no emails or other physical means required.
- We use Microsoft Teams for holding different sessions, which are also recorded.
- Microsoft Teams is quite mean on some devices like the IOS, and several people use these gadgets.
- Also, Microsoft Teams is quite ancient, and leads so much, and this can be upgraded.
- Finally, Microsoft Teams lacks swift customization, which is wrong.
- Easy to set schedule for meetings
- It give reminder you to join call at the time
- You can easy discuss your views throw screen share
- You can request for controls of other mechine
- Easy to create discussion panals
- It need a high network to connect and loading if internet is slow
- Some time controls request is not work properly
- Heavy file are not supported on it yet
- Organizing the live sessions
- Scheduling the Recurring calls for required time window
- Project wise Teams channels creation
- OneDrive support to store the files shared across the platform
- Multiple Devices support during call
- Accumulation of Groups
- The mobile data consumed by the app during the call is high
- Virtual Machine Teams application is not stable
Corporate messenger--Microsoft Teams
- Quick and easy way for urgent communication and short messages
- Available on Cloud (through Office 360), desktop, and mobile
- Has integrations with MS Office tools
- Poor quality of video calls
- Poor quality of quoting messages
- No possibility to create static, long-term group chats
- Poor search effectivness (hard to find historical messages in app)
Microsoft Teams helps make a team a team
- Sound quality is fantastic
- Video conferencing is impressive
- It is challenging to understand initially how the Microsoft Teams structure works, as it does not map onto the business hierarchy.
- If you have lots of chats, you can respond and not realize you are responding to a group and not an individual
Best communication platform for the business
The business problems it addresses:
1. Enables the whole organization to collaborate among the employees as the travel hosts and resorts are distributed geographically.
2. Product designing and cascading with the team in real-time with this application.
3. Screen and file sharing.
4. Audio and video conferencing for a better relationship.
5. Customer handling with the application is extremely vibrant.
- Easy user interface.
- Collaboration tool.
- Audio and video conferencing.
- Screen and file sharing feature.
- Instant messaging.
- Real time Connectivity from anywhere.
- File's structure may confuse the new users.
- Challenges regarding permission settings when we do meeting with customers.
- Confusion arises while interacting with Teams Group.
Microsoft Teams is must have!
- Instant chat feature
- Video calling
- Scheduling meetings
- Integrates with other apps
- Editing recorded meetings is nonexistent
Teams is a wonder!
- Easy to use and easy to set up future meetings.
- Anyone in the meeting can take control and share content, not just the person who set up the meeting.
- Choosing what content you want to show or what screen you want to share is clearly marked and easy to navigate.
- Joining a meeting already in progress is simple and I love the alerts that let you know if someone started the meeting early.
- When a lot of people are in one meeting, Microsoft Teams often glitches. If I am one of the last to show up in large meetings, often I cannot see anything nor does my sound work properly.
- User Interface is nicely done and that makes it easier to adopt and use.
- Chats, Calls and Files all in one tool. We do not need to switch between Slack, Zoom and Sharepoint.
- Integration with other Microsoft and non-Microsoft apps and ecosystem is amazing.
- The concept of 'Team' and 'Channel' is not obvious. You can end up with tons of Teams.
- Viewing/updating Powerpoint slides in Teams may not be optimal depending on layout.
- There is no ability to log into multiple Teams at the same time.
Microsoft Teams Review
- All Microsoft products are integrated seamlessly
- Voice calls, video calls, webinars
- Ease of use
- Support multiple devices
- No reply messages from [the] desktop app
- Integration between Teams and Yammer is not working properly
- Voice notes sometimes are corrupted on mobile devices
- No edit history for text messages
Microsoft Teams: LOVE IT
- Video chatting is easy.
- Adding additional colleagues to chat or video is easy.
- Video quality is very clear.
- I have no additional improvements at this time. Very happy with system.
A great collaboration tool
It does a great job on 'concentrating' all the work on a centralized work platform. You can create work groups (Teams) to share documents, create and maintain shared annotations and files, you can add new tabs and connect them to other services like Power BI and have also your dashboards on a centralized platform. This is the best part of teams.
The part that I don't like that much is the Chat, what was supposed to be its main feature. As Teams has a lot of features, it is a heavy application, consuming a considerable amount of memory. The chat hangs sometimes and it keeps all the chat history for the eternity... what makes it very slow after some time. Also, there's no option to "reply" a message on the chat for Windows (only on Teams for smartphones).
- Centralizes a lot of features on a single workspace.
- Integration to other applications, such as Power BI, Planner, etc.
- A good place to keep shared files.
- The Chat feature could be improved.
- There's no "reply" option on the Chat.
- It consumes a lot of memory and it hangs a lot of times.
You can use its features from a Windows computer, or from your smartphone, or even from an Online version. These options are really amazing, you can be connected to your peers and to your work at any time.
Also, you can have access to your shared documents on your teams and have different chats for each project/workstream.
- Integration within the whole Office 365 E3 Suite.
- Good collaboration features, also externally (if allowed).
- It offers an intuitive way of working with it, across many platforms.
- More advanced features should be available (Flow, integration with external apps, etc).
- Full desktop client reconnects a lot, so stability can be improved.
- It is easy to get lost if you are a member of too many teams/channels. That is more of a personal issue.
Collaboration made easy - with Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Teams is highly integrated with other applications such as OneNote and Planner. This helps to increase productivity by not having to switch applications while collaborating.
- The ability to search the corporate address book directly from the Microsoft Teams application helps to find contact info for employees easily. Once you have the info, you can then quickly contact a user (by email, chat, or call) directly from Microsoft Teams application.
- Unlike Skype for Business, chat history is not quickly recovered from Outlook. You have to perform a Content search, which requires an administrator to perform.
- In Skype for Business, I was able to search for a phone number, and the application would display the contact who matched that number. This does not appear to function in Microsoft Teams.
Total collaboration software for small teams
- Easy to use
- Integrates with other Microsoft products
- File sharing and collaboration
- User interface
- Mobile friendliness
- Takes time to load and makes your PC slow
Slack+Zoom=Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Office integrations
- Microsoft Outlook integrations
- Robust messaging features like--and sometimes better than--Slack
- Too many features can be a burden
- Can quickly overwhelm a new user
- Need a big manual to start using
- Could do with a tutorial at startup
The Microsoft Office integrations are a welcome addition, as they enhance and help users present or do stuff on professional messaging apps, unlike Slack.
The place where Microsoft Teams doesn't do so well is explaining all its features. It's so feature filled that it can be intimidating at first.
- Meeting planning is very simple.
- Works integrated with Microsoft Outlook Calendar.
- The application library is rich.
- Easy to share screen and hand over control of the computer in the meeting.
- Easy to add another employee to the meeting.
- It keeps file exchanges together for the team and creates a virtual archive.
- The address book is useful. It covers the whole organization.
- The screen design is quite complicated, if you are working in a large organization, the screen gets crowded. It is difficult to find what you are looking for at first glance.
- The lack of personalization on the chat screen makes it difficult to use.
- It would be better to send emails via teams, Outlook would not be needed.
Slightly difficult to use the app
- Easy to call
- The camera does not work sometimes, and this is quite bothersome. I do not know the reason
- It does not seem to work optimally on iPad and iOS, only giving me the option to turn on my camera and other settings before the call sometimes. When I get invited to meetings, it does not give me this option, which causes a lot of stress when I do not know the reason for this.
Communicate and collaborate with team members as if you're all together in the same room
- Very easy to share files using chat
- Fantastic grouping and organization using channels
- Inability to delete conversations. What happens in Teams, stays in Teams, forever...
- Too many notifications on things like reactions to comments.
Best overall app for Team communication and collaboration
- Chat.
- Document management.
- Tasks.
- Collaboration.
- Conference Calling.
- Speed when user behind application firewall.
- Switch between Chat and Teams Channel is too slow.
- Additional categorisation for Tasks within Teams.
- Better integration with SharePoint.
- There is urgent need to simplify administration and collaboration for new users.
- Add password for public meetings.
- Export chat from meeting and live events after the meeting has been closed.
- Allow joining public meeting from PC client without registration.
- Better controls for Meeting organiser (more control over attendees).
I did implementations for companies with 2-3 users and in institutions with severeal hundreds of users. It works. It is fairly flexible solutions for different needs, but the core features are amongst the best on the market.
Microsoft Teams for our company win!
- Add files to a chat
- Screen sharing
- Making calls within Teams
- We have RDS which is a remote desktop, and when someone wants to chat with me, it pops up for a second but I actually have to minimize my remote desktop to get to the actual chat screen.
Microsoft Teams Review
- It does nothing well
- Better whiteboard
- Improved screensharing options
- Work out the login bugs
- Fix problems with connecting to users' video
- Fix the buggy chat
Microsoft Teams - An excellent collaboration platform
- Document sharing is now easy and convenient.
- Great for one-on-one calls, or for very large groups.
- Great sound and picture quality.
- I do not believe that I would change anything.