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Teams within Teams, makes it MS teams.
April 03, 2019

Teams within Teams, makes it MS teams.

Stefan Trbojevic | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is being used as our main communication tool across our organization. We have a great number of teams within MS Teams, structurally organized for better visibility. It is mostly being used for written communication instead of voice. We use it for knowledge based purposes as well, since every team has its own dedicated Wiki and SharePoint page, which can be really useful for large teams, to share guidelines and tutorials.
  • Mentioning users or group of users with "@" sign.
  • Notifications about mentions and important messages.
  • Multiple teams support.
  • Scheduling within the MS teams.
  • Performance wise, Microsoft Teams has tendencies of running slow sometimes, especially if you are in a chat with a great number of participants.
  • No easy way to create a new group chat, other than creating a new Team.
  • Positive return of investment would be quick migration from Skype for Business to the MS teams, as it uses current O365 user groups.
  • Another positive impact would be increased productivity as teams are divided and have their own team chats where the focus on important things is not lost.
As the youngest product in MS family, MS Teams is trying their best to implement all the new features, such as:
  • Mentioning (People & Teams - with "@" sign
  • Gif, emoji, memes, etc.
  • Ability to view documents within the software itself without having to open that particular software viewer. (Excel, Word, PDF)
Right now MS Temas is on a good path to becoming a great business tool with all the modern features. I expect that in the near future it will be shoulder to shoulder against its competitors.
Microsoft Teams is well suited to reach out to a large group of people and send them updates or dive into an important conversation with them. As previously mentioned it is not possible to create a quick conversation with certain people like it was possible with Skype for Business.

To be clear, the bad thing about MS Teams is that you have to create a separate team in order to have a separate conversation with the people of your choice.