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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.
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- Chat (190)8.888%
- Discussions (177)8.585%
- Notifications (189)8.080%
- Mobile Access (174)7.979%
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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.
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Microsoft Teams Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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 starts at $5.
Reviewers rate Chat and Integrates with Outlook highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of Microsoft Teams are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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February 02, 2024
Microsoft Teams and no Team Spirit
We have tried to use it primarily for video conferencing, meetings and as an overall communication tool. Approximately 40% of our staff works remotely, and others travel a lot as part of the job. Sometimes we have small conferences or connections of 2 people, and we also use it for our town halls and kick offs which are over 200 people across the country, but not internationally.
- 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
February 13, 2023
It's pricey but it can be a necessity
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
MS Teams were able to address our connection with our colleagues who are not able to use our current platform since it is a competitor of the client they are supporting. Being in governance, I need to be able to reach everyone where ever they are located so this is the best option I have.
- It does not consume to much bandwidth based on number of participants
- It has easy navigation for use
- It can work on mobile
- Provide more background choices during meetings
- Have an easy access button for help options
- Provide description on the icons available on the interface
January 26, 2023
Teams for Enterprise.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use it for all types of communication. Internal and external too. Used for file sharing and serves the purpose of SharePoint.
- Communication across user base.
- Servers as sharepoint.
- Supports connection to onedrive
- Not found anything to date.
December 20, 2022
Microsoft Teams is the best tool for company to connect with people
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are hybrid model. Each one of us can schedule meetings, calling and video conferencing each other at no cost to us. When we are in office, Microsoft Teams are instant messaging system. We use it to evaluate our project and high five to those who have done a great job. It makes us feel appreciated. What's more, we are a team and that feels good. It saves our time. We become more transparent to each other. We are staying connected more than ever.
- 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
December 06, 2022
An Application That Speeds up the Workflow.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used this program the most during the pandemic period. It helped me to connect with my teammates in their internal work when working from home.
- Easy connection
- Clear picture and sound
- Time to time it gives login error even with correct password.
- In cases where there is more than one person physically present in the same environment at a meeting, you cannot individually lower your voice.
- Why can't we create a channel?
August 15, 2022
Microsoft Teams is the best
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use it to conduct inter-district training via video link. We also use it to communicate over the internet, and provide the team with data and required materials. Configure systems via remote access and help the team. Microsoft Teams is also used to conduct voice calls with the team leads as well.
- Voice/video calling.
- Screen sharing.
- Instant messages.
- Share data/files.
- Optimization.
- Voice quality.
- Video recording.
June 30, 2022
Microsoft Teams has become essential for me
What don't we use Microsoft Teams for? Since it's implementation, our Team has turned it into the all-access hub for all of our communication. We break down teams based on projects and they use Teams channels to post ideas and share work. We also use Microsoft Teams for video calls and to record customer interviews. I personally use the calendar feature to help me stay up-to-date. We have integrations with some of our others services that feed into Microsoft Teams as well.
- Video calls are great with Microsoft Teams. They've made big improvements over the last year and I rarely have issue with getting on. It's nice when things just work.
- The most used functionality is, of course, the chat feature. It does what it's supposed to do and you can create chat groups from whoever you'd like. We use it a lot when there is a special project and a team from various groups get together for a short period of time to get things done.
- An overlooked function is the ability to search anything within Microsoft Teams. Any photo, document, or chat can be searched and found pretty easily. I can't tell you how many times this has saved me from having to rewrite something or start over.
- The mobile experience could use more help. Not huge things but more annoyances. For example, you can only view the calendar in a week view on the mobile app. Also, the ability to schedule meetings and change the dates and times is rather difficult to do. So much so that I often wait until I am near a computer to get it done.
- I'd love to see more integrations. Slack still has Microsoft Teams beat on this.
June 15, 2022
Microsoft Teams Helped Our Remote Team 110%!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our creative team uses Microsoft Teams to collaborate on daily projects, communication, and also team meetings. We're able to do screen shares for quick training sessions or hold larger team meetings where everyone can join in. Since COVID, our team has gone 100% remote so being able to connect online with Microsoft Teams has been a lifesaver.
- Online sharing.
- Online screen shares for training purposes.
- Quick communication tool.
- Excellent connectivity with few interruptions during meetings.
- I sometimes have a hard time viewing both the meeting screen and chat window at the same time.
- There have been times when someone in a meeting will totally lose their connection.
- At times the sound quality is not what it should be which makes it hard to hear each other.
May 26, 2022
Sorry but my only suggestion is the layout
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I like to use it to work in a collaborative project. I would say there are some issues with the way it’s organized. The tabs on the hand left side are useful but sometimes confusing.
- Meetings
- Calls
- For sharing files
- When answering calls, the Color of the phone call symbol should be green
- Layout of tabs
- A way to enable Offline option anytime
May 11, 2022
Best Communication Tool I've Ever Used!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Teams is our primary communication tool within the organization. It helps us a lot, especially during this pandemic, to communicate from home. We are able to chat, call, and have our team meetings with this tool. This also helps the management monitor their employees if they are working.
- Helps us communicate within the organization
- Great tool for team meetings while working from home
- Noise cancellation features while on a call or meeting
- It's lag sometimes even when there's good connection
- More background effects
- It would be great if you get a notification that has the name of the user who has muted you during a meeting
March 09, 2022
Future of messaging
I use it to exchange messages with colleagues, for meetings, to share screen and documentation. Also to address major/minor incidents quickly and easily. We use it for phone internal and external phone calls. We use it to create groups of discussions for projects in which we can share files related to the project.
- Meetings
- Sharing
- Phone calls
- Audio quality
- Use less laptop ressources
- Integrate troubleshooting tools natively
March 07, 2022
Excellent tool for communication and collaboration
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have been using Microsoft Teams for 6 years. It is a great tool for communication and collaboration in an organization. It provides everything needed for messaging, conferencing, and file sharing. It is the best tool for a virtual office, where we can suppress background noise while working from home. Microsoft Teams gives me a platform where I can work with other employees in my company on video conferencing and share files, chat in a group, and many other features.
- Easy-to-use daily enterprise communication tool. It made me very productive while working from home.
- Group communication software that brings together texts, voice, and video calls in the same place.
- Screen sharing feature is very useful and remote control makes working with peers easy.
- It requires a good internet connection to run fast
- Sometimes it works slowly and you get logged out of your session
- Searching the history chat is quite time consuming
March 03, 2022
Must Have for Business Collaboration
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In my organization, we use Microsoft Teams to hold team meetings as well as communicate internally via the chat feature. The Microsoft Teams platform has helped our team stay in touch and communicate seamlessly regardless of location. The many features of Microsoft teams such as breakout rooms, meeting scheduling, and task assigning greatly improve productivity and team collaboration.
- Seamless group conferencing.
- Chat functionality.
- Scheduled meetings.
- Requires good internet connection.
- Better in-meeting chat.
- Group meeting mute function.
January 11, 2022
From the users perspective Microsoft Teams satisfies the needs
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft teams to stay in contact with external clients. The client [sends] us a link, we paste that link in Google Calendar, and that way we're able to access the meeting from our main time management program. We've always had a pleasant experience through the web browser application as we do not have to install anything.
- Stable connection
- Easy to use
- No installation
- Accessible
- Well known
- Audio & Video input management.
- Audio & Video output management.
- Refresh the UI, make it more modern looking.
December 31, 2021
Problems
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
This program is always having some issues like he is my dad. The attachment button is despairing, not only to me but to the others who use this app. This app is always having some problem with login in, he keeps login out from the phone, there is always an issue to open pictures, and NO the internet is not the problem!
- nothing
- nothing
- nothing
- everywhere
- everywhere
- everywhere
December 30, 2021
Make work more fun and interacting .
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft Teams for inter and intra team communication to track progress of project work and also we host some fun activities within Teams. We connect either on audio call, or video call with another colleague one to one to describe any challenges, scope and idea about the Project.
- Message chat
- Audio, video call
- Screen Sharing while call
- File sharing
- White board for drawing activities
- Emoji's to express thoughts
- Townhall meetings
- Audio calling quality
- Video calling quality
- Screen lag while screen sharing
December 20, 2021
Teams - Not a perfect solution, but still the best choice going!
We used MS Teams for all of our team meetings as well as organizational meetings. We used MS Teams for communication and training. We found Teams to be an excellent way to stay on track with individual and group projects. It was also a reliable means of checking in with team members and supervisors. All of MS Teams' features were used in our professional development sessions as well.
- Facilitates intra- and inter-team communication.
- Provides an easy-to-use feature for documenting meetings and proceedings
- Provides an excellent chat feature for off-line and sidebar communication
- Enables users to share their screens easily with other participants
- Provides a format for document storage, meeting minutes, etc.
- Hierarchy of files are a bit confusing to users.
- Adding participants outside of an organization can be challenging.
- Requires very stable Internet connection.
December 01, 2021
Perfect solution for all office needs
Teams offers secure collaboration, both internally and externally. Greater data visibility and better governanceTeams has powerful Microsoft Office integration options. Comprehensive third-party integrations Powerful audio and video calling options Support for education, healthcare, and emergency services Bots and other tools for many needs Communicate with my clients ON and OFF shore. Launch quick meetings. Updates to this happen when the MS OFFICE package is updated.
- MS Teams is very handy and easy.
- Screen sharing feature is there for presentations.
- Screen blur problem when internet connection is slow.
- Sometimes it does not remind me of meetings. I hope it gets fixed as soon as possible in the future.
November 25, 2021
Microsoft Teams Improves Communication and Helps Build Teams that Enhance Productivity
Microsoft Teams is a great tool for keeping teams connected. It has a great chat feature that allows for instantly messaging colleagues. Microsoft Teams also has the ability to have team meetings with or without video to keep teams connected and on the same page. It can be used to coordinate meetings both internally and with outside consultants and vendors. When you also incorporate the mobile app in addition to the desktop version, Microsoft teams is even more flexible. It is a great tool.
- Allows you to set up teams for specific projects as well as a team for the entire department to keep everyone in contact
- Great Help Section and training available through the app.
- Very good Chat feature
- Capability to host / coordinate Conference Calls
- Easy to use Team Meetings
- Calendar Feature to help keep track of your schedule.
- Video quality was unstable at times but may have been a reflection of connection speeds more than of the capabilities of Teams.
- Can be a memory hog and cause computer performance issues at times. Be sure you have plenty of RAM on your computer to avoid issues if you plan to keep Team open at all times.
- Need a more intuitive way to coordinate the Calendar function in Teams with external calendars so you don't have to coordinate between several different calendars.
November 24, 2021
[Microsoft Teams] Love Letter!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Since the pandemic, our business [has] changed [from] work [in] office to work from home setup. Communication has been a bit of a challenge, especially since it's our first to experience it. But, because of Microsoft Teams, communication within the account has been very smooth as if we're just beside each other. Awesome experience by far!
- Manage my schedule through calendars, linked to invites
- Communicate very well with colleagues through chat and video calls
- HD quality calls and videos
- Maybe add emojis for when we have meetings that will be more fun
- Search should be more specific, maybe add filters
- Add more fun features in [Microsoft] Teams
November 24, 2021
Teams is convenient for WFH
Our internal teams communicate with each other, upload and store documents on the Team Channels and Files, set up and join meetings through Teams, and also communicate during the meetings through those Teams chat rooms. Most importantly is the communication and the storage aspect - we are able to communicate immediately and daily, note important chat messages(even save them), and can reach anyone in the company quickly. Storage-wise - we seem to be always running out of room - but ever since we're working from home, we've been using Teams to store all our project files and not our VPN connection because it's simply much faster.
- Meetings.
- Daily and speedy communication.
- File Storage.
- Comfortable UX/UI.
- File Storage is a little clunky for new users, there was a learning curve in understanding the difference between Channels, Teams, Files, and where to communicate. The UI could be improved.
- The connection of the file storage with Sharepoint gets tricky, where if we edit a certain file in one location, either it sometimes mirrors the action on the other platform, but sometimes it doesn't. It created a lot of issues.
November 17, 2021
Teams, the way communication should happen.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At the City of New Braunfels we [use] Microsoft 365 with Teams. Teams is used by everyone at the City of New Braunfels. Teams address the need for communication through one on one or team messaging. Teams also leverages most of the Microsoft 365 applications. When you create a new Team it in turn will create a sharepoint site for that team. It also has the ability to mail enable the team and use it [as] a distribution list.
- Communication between individuals and teams with in departments
- Collaboration utilizing Microsoft 365 applications
- Video conferencing with screen sharing
- Management configuration
- Adding and removing members from the admin console can be cumbersome
September 30, 2021
Internal integration made easy through Teams
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Teams is a great video chat tool. It satisfies most of our business needs like conducting meetings, conferences and communicating with clients regarding projects and queries. Communicating with staff and sharing business files with peers is easy.
- Video Calling Feature
- Shared excel on team manager
- Network stability
- Should reduce the internet required for calling
- Implementing meeting id and rooms
- Should have regular updates
September 10, 2021
Teams is an amazing productivity tool, but not for everyone.
Teams is being used across the organization and every user has access to it. It is currently optional to use it and not the main form of communication across the organization as we still use Skype. Running two collaboration platforms made it more difficult to get users up to speed and adoption to the levels we wanted. I recommend that if you're a leader in your organization and making the decision to get Teams, make sure you implement it at the same time as removing Skype or other communication platforms.
- Chat and group chats are so smooth and easy to use. you can also share files, links, gifs and stickers in the conversation.
- Channels help split the work into multiple sections which will allow members to chat in the correct section about specific topics. You can also share folders in each of the channels.
- There are a lot of connections you can add to Teams or to specific teams you create that help increase productivity.
- I don't find the user interface very friendly. Text/font isn't great and colors are just not the best.
- So hard to navigate between channels sometimes and if you leave a channel it doesn't and come back to it, it doesn't land at the same place you were at.
July 26, 2021
Truly a Team's Application.
Microsoft Teams' user interface is simple and very easy to understand and can be used by anyone. It has a very good feature to organize team meetings, share your documents, take short training and record them as well so that the entire group can have access to it. The call quality is good even with the decent internet speed. You can schedule the meeting for your team by blocking their calendar in advance. You can create different channels for your projects.
- Record the meeting for future reference
- You can create different group and channel as per your project
- You can view others calendar to schedule the meeting for an individual or a group
- Some features while uploading the documents are a bit different in the mobile version compared to the windows version.
- It would be better if we could download the recording for offline use.
- You should be able to tag the message while replying to a particular message.
- Access rights should be restricted for downloading the documents when sent in a group chat or channel.