Microsoft Teams Transition hasn't been awesome, but it's not a bad product.
August 07, 2019
Microsoft Teams Transition hasn't been awesome, but it's not a bad product.

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Teams
We are using Microsoft Teams for generic peer:peer communication, cross-team/department collaboration, and for video conferencing/online meetings/screensharing. Because we have offices in many difference countries and across many different timezones, Teams allows us to easily communicate with each other.
- Easy management of functional teams/groups within Teams
- Easy to start a meeting from anywhere
- Easy to navigate
- Integrates seamlessly with office365
- Doesn't allow for pausing screen share during a meeting
- Doesn't allow users to use a phone to call into a meeting. I have to join twice, once from my phone and once from my computer so that I can present on the call and also use my headphones with my phone.
- Doesn't respect my computer's DND settings. Notifications from teams still appear while I'm in DND and sharing my screen via different web conferencing tools.
- Very difficult to clear all notifications in activity.
- File sharing is difficult. I don't want all of the files I share to be saved in a one drive folder. I constantly run into issues with sharing a screenshot with multiple people, via multiple threads, and being asked if I want to replace or duplicate the file.
- It has enabled us to more quickly initiate meetings, whereas before we had to send a meeting invite via outlook to trigger a meeting request with our web conferencing software. This has led to higher efficiency across the business.
Teams is like 100x better than Microsoft Lync for Mac. I also like how easy it is to manage threads and replies in Teams, similarly to Flowdock and Slack. I think that Slack offers better integrations, makes it easier to share files, has a better UI, is overall easier to use, but doesn't have as good web conferencing as Teams.