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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 |
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| 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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December 11, 2023
Teams is the best - but not perfect
For us Teams is the lifeblood of collaboration on a day-to-day basis.
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.
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.
November 29, 2023
Could do better
Microsoft Teams has become the main communication channel in our team.<br>It offers many advantages to the old and sometimes bulky classic emails.<br>The integration with other Microsoft Apps is good (not great) and offers many possibilities to make Teams a central hub for information exchange.<br>But the new pest after 'Reply to All' mails are new Team Channels popping up with every Project or Task. This can cet very confusing and hard to search for a specific bit of information or document buried deep in some random subchannel in some subfolder.
- 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
November 06, 2023
In principle I am very disappointed when using Microsoft Teams.
In my experience, the application doesn't work at times. I think improvements are definitely needed. I actually found Skype much more user friendly and efficient when I used it 10 years ago.
In my experience, there are times that it just doesn't work.
In my experience, there are times that it just doesn't work.
- On a desktop or laptop computer I think it does work quite well but, in my experience, on mobiles it's a different story
- On my two mobile devices it just doesn't work. But the company is committed to the use of Microsoft Teams at the moment.
- Due to employee complaints we may move to another app.
- Hardware that was installed to support Microsoft Teams meetings in our meeting rooms do not work at all. I think it's horrendous.
- In my opinion, if people out there willing to spend money on it, I would be very careful and I would propose a proper assessment to be done prior to making an agreement.
September 15, 2023
Teams makes Teamwork efficient and fun :-)
We use Teams on a daily-basis for a wide variety of meetings: internal and external. Sometimes in group, sometimes 1-1 (with only two participants). The Teams chat and the screen sharing features are almost always used. People turn their cameras on most of the time, and mute themselves when not speaking. Some participants join from their mobile device if they are not at the office or at home at the time of the call.
- 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
August 10, 2023
Teams a Good tool for an organization
Microsoft team we use for communicating with all the users in the organization for file sharing, Crated groups BU-wise help a lot of time to collaborate and communicate with all the teams. We use town hall meetings for the entire organization. We use it for daily Candence calls even we schedule calls with customers to resolve there issues.
- 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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft Teams daily in our company for all the communication needs: chat with colleagues in a private chat, make audio/video calls, host online meetings, and attend and host virtual conferences.
Microsoft Teams definitely improved collaboration and team work in our company.
It's great tool for personal and business needs!
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
July 25, 2023
Microsoft Teams Review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In our company, Microsoft Teams is used when an alternative is not available, being an external made choice for a webinar or meeting, or maybe an option associated with an Office 365 suite. While it works, it's interface isn't very user friendly when stacked up against other collaboration tools available, both free or paid ones, even now that has been on the market for sometime.
- It's "free" for almost every company that has MS products.
- User Interface
- Bandwidth needs
- General Collab features availability (comparing with other platforms)
July 19, 2023
Microsoft Teams a centralized application
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Teams is a nice collaboration tool, we use in our organization as the main collaboration tool, we use it for chatting, meetings, inbound and outbound calls. The tool helped us move away from using soft phones that constantly cause issues with phone calls and now we have integrated our own phone number and we can receive and do calls. This enabled us to low cost by removing the need of 2 different software and cost of license per agent/user.
- 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.
We use Teams to facilitate online meetings which are either on-one-one or with teams/squads.
- 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
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft Teams daily in our company. We have 2 branches and several remote employees across the country. Microsoft Teams keeps everyone together and on the same page. When used in conjunction with Sharepoint, it is like we are all in one place. We are able to share files, share our screens, we can plan meetings to happen on Microsoft Teams or quickly jump into a meeting if we need to address an issue quickly.
- Microsoft Teams Meetings are easy to set up
- Collaborating on specific projects
- keeping track on where we are on projects
- I would like to have an IT version where I could actually use Microsoft Teams to remotely assist end users with IT Issues.
- I would like to have subgroups within a larger group with out having to create another group
April 25, 2023
Software that makes sense but is not yet perfect.
As a contractors, we use Microsoft Teams in different ways.The first is with our clients, usually non-profit organizations that work with multi-generational volunteers. Integrating non-company people into the Team universe is not the most user-friendly solution. There are often difficulties in accessing documents and navigating through the infrastructure of the interface. It therefore requires each time to educate the volunteers on how to use the platform.We also use the Microsoft Teams of our customers, who have provided us with email addresses from their organizations specifically for this purpose. We end up with conflicts between Teams, OneNote and Office 365 if we are not on the same user account for each of the software.In short, the tool is interesting but its protections against external access as well as the difficulty for users with multiple MS 365 accounts are a hindrance in our context.
- 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).
Microsoft Teams has replaced our previous document repository tool and has also replaced Skype as our new communication within teams members. It has a good structure to it (provided it is thought out), ease in use and good UI. There is also the ability to search within Microsoft Teams and that makes it easy to search for files/folders and communication history. It also integrates well with other plugins such as Microsoft power apps, Miro etc. so that has been a great help in managing work and comms.
- provides ability to organise folders and files (good front end to SharePoint)
- provides great use of communication between team members and external parties
- provides great integration with other apps such as Microsoft power platform, Miro etc.
- The search function could be made better- especially for finding things within chats
- It is a little annoying going to previous pages within Microsoft Teams, at times i feel like it would be nice to open things in a new windows
- sometimes Microsoft Team crashes - but very rarely and that can be a pain
March 04, 2023
Amazing software for team management and collaboration
Microsoft Teams is used for conducting online meetings regularly and helps us to connect with each other virtually. It is used across the whole organisation. Video conferencing becomes easier and with a variety of tools and options that come with Microsoft Teams, the group discussions feel just like an in-person conference.
- It is very simple to use and setup.
- Lot of options available for the organisers like Breakout rooms etc.
- It has a user friendly interface.
- The feature of notifications in the mobile application could be improved. Sometimes notifications of different teams are not visible and are only visible when the application is opened.
- It uses lots of computational resources while running and thus, slows down the system sometimes.
- It allows a few channels per team. The number of channels could be increased for better productivity.
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
February 08, 2023
Great teamwork possible in Microsoft Teams!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use Microsoft Teams as my workplace communication tool in a large healthcare organization. I can communicate quickly and effectively with my supervisor and fellow colleagues about confidential customer data and know it is secure. It is easy to connect with colleagues working at branches in different Australian states. Professional development webinars, held live across multiple Australian states at regular times, are easily supported on this platform with over 30-40+ users watching a single stream at one time. Integrates well with Microsoft Outlook which is used concurrently at work.
- 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.
February 03, 2023
One of the most used team Collaboration software- Microsoft Teams
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Microsoft Teams for Team collaboration. We are using this tool for meetings, team catch ups, remote happy hours etc. Microsoft team is most widely used collaboration software. It has different applications for project management as well. We can manage task boards to track the progress of tasks, we are also having regular training sessions on Teams. Everything is super easy to use. No special training is required to use it. It's connected to Microsoft 365 applications. It's not that costly as well. So it's suitable for all the companies or individual use cases.
- Virtual meetings
- Project Collaboration
- Remote Connectivity
- Availability - These days there are many Microsoft outages reported throughout the world. Something needs to be done as soon as possible in this case.
- Notifications are little less user friendly and needs some improvement
- Noise cancellation feature is excellent but not that user friendly
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.
January 24, 2023
Microsoft Teams is a sure-fire go-to for educational customers
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used Microsoft Teams to communicate internally and externally with staff and students. We love the ease of use despite the learning curve necessary to feel completely comfortable with the software. Students and staff alike have taken to using this platform for both asynchronous instruction and live video instruction. We would recommend this platform for anyone seeking these tools.
- Messaging
- Video lessons
- Group communications
- Training
- Management of 'expired' groups
- Website support
November 26, 2022
Marvelously Terrific Microsoft Teams
All team members use Microsoft Teams for communication and collaboration, to set up meetings, to conduct presentations to store and share important documents, etc. We find the application meets all our requirements, as it's easy to use, convenient, it's simple to take on board new enhancements and our capabilities are increasing all the time. It's a Godsend, and we couldn't cope without it. Its seamless interaction with other Microsoft products helps too.
- It makes it easy to collaborate in meetings.
- Its brilliant as a presentation tool.
- Its great for storing documents and works brilliantly with Sharepoint.
- It could be a bit better connected with outside applications.
September 27, 2022
The software I use in attending virtual meetings and events.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In the chatbot. The messages were not aligned to all the viewers. Like whom is the 1st, 2nd and so on. Because there were times there's a game, on my view I was the 1st. But on others, I was not. I wish all the messages are same in all users/viewers.
- good quality of audio and video
- tools that needed during meeting
- sync in my calendar schedule
- easy to use
- sync of the same alignment of messages in chat box.
September 16, 2022
Microsoft Teams makes it easy for Teams to just work.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We implemented Microsoft Teams a few years ago and starting adopting it as a replacement for Microsoft Skype for Business.
In the beginning adoption was slow and it was hard to get our staff and clients to move over.
However when the Covid Pandemic started we kept on sending out client/user comms about the features of Microsoft Teams.
We suddenly saw major adoption of Microsoft Teams and I can say this is one of the best collaboration and unified communication tools out there.
We use the Teams Channels for our Team collaboration and work. Sharing documents with users that need to work on it at the same time really works well. I have seen over 400 users work on a single document at the same time and we had no issues.
The Teams meetings work really well, Virtual Backgrounds are excellent, and is a major improvement compared to Skype for Business.
Finally, the multiple integration options with other apps, or the online web access functions are really great features. You are able to do everything in the Teams web app you can do in the desktop app.
In the beginning adoption was slow and it was hard to get our staff and clients to move over.
However when the Covid Pandemic started we kept on sending out client/user comms about the features of Microsoft Teams.
We suddenly saw major adoption of Microsoft Teams and I can say this is one of the best collaboration and unified communication tools out there.
We use the Teams Channels for our Team collaboration and work. Sharing documents with users that need to work on it at the same time really works well. I have seen over 400 users work on a single document at the same time and we had no issues.
The Teams meetings work really well, Virtual Backgrounds are excellent, and is a major improvement compared to Skype for Business.
Finally, the multiple integration options with other apps, or the online web access functions are really great features. You are able to do everything in the Teams web app you can do in the desktop app.
- Great collaboration tools and experience
- Really good online meeting and meeting collaboration experience and tools
- The Teams web function works really well and I sometimes prefer it over the desktop app
- The additional add-ins available makes it truly great
- The chat functions in Teams need some refinement and should give user options to move the Chat function to a more traditional IM style window as well. I know there was movement into the direction but I still thing improvement would be needed.
July 29, 2022
Teams Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use the system for complete communication within the company and for dealing with external customers, it is also used to plan and manage my diary. Sales calls are made using teams as well as being used to run online training and workshops. I use the chat function to communicate none urgent information to my team.
- Connects internal teams.
- Diary management.
- Chat function is great.
- Could have different calendar views.
We use Microsoft Teams for our day-to-day collaboration. All of my meetings are held using Teams. All my team members have been working from home since the pandemic and Teams is our lifesaver. It provides really cool interface with provisions for sharing files/tasks/calendars/whiteboards, etc. It has an Office 365 button that allows us to easily navigate/share mail/access SharePoint, etc.
- Chats are easy to manage and include an easy search option for retrieving previous chat history
- Whiteboards have tasks which can be shared with a group
- Video call quality is excellent, I hardly see any glitching
- Sometimes pings are not instantaneous, especially when there are more than 100 participants in the Teams meeting
- Gets hung up once in a while when the system is loading
- Some headphone/Bluetooth connectivity issues. I turn on my Bluetooth just after receiving a Teams call notification. Sometimes the audio doesn't switch to Bluetooth and sometimes the sound is completely lost after connecting the call. In both cases, I had to completely reboot the system.
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 04, 2022
Let's Connect
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Teams is being used by our organization for virtual meetings, sharing files/documents, and chat purposes. This software is used by our whole organization. As due to Covid we are all working from home, it's very necessary to get connected and all information shared should be private so it helps us maintain proper passage.
- We have a daily huddle over Teams.
- Teams allows us to share any file and it helps to create different channels where we can upload our file so any new joiner can easily find documents.