Microsoft Teams for Managers

Meet an experienced IT instructor with two decades of teaching and hands-on work with Microsoft Teams and Office 365, focusing on internal communication, client meetings, and administration insights.

Explore how to create and manage teams and channels in Microsoft Teams, use planner and Outlook for task and project management, and access data via SharePoint and OneDrive.

Explore how Microsoft Teams, a core Microsoft 365 tool, enables real-time chat, video meetings, secure collaboration, and manager-led customization with apps.

Explore how M365 apps and services integrate with Teams, including Exchange Online, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive, and understand storage, calendars, and shared mailboxes.

Explore how Microsoft 365 apps integrate with Teams, enabling Outlook meetings, calendar synchronization with free/busy information, presence, and forms for surveys, plus Planner and task integration across Office 365 Groups.

Learn how to navigate Microsoft Teams as a manager, from installation and settings to managing teams, channels, files, calendars, and apps for efficient collaboration.

Manage teams and channels in Microsoft Teams by creating teams, adding features, creating channels, and configuring privacy options.

Learn how managers create teams in the Teams client, choosing from templates or starting from scratch, and set private or public access based on organization size.

Add members to a team by choosing individuals or groups from your directory, including distribution or security groups, and invite external contacts when allowed by administrators.

Learn how to add team members in Microsoft Teams for managers, including inviting guests, adding distribution lists, managing ownership, and handling join requests.

Learn how to design teams, decide channel structure, manage permissions, and organize tabs and files to support security and collaboration in Microsoft Teams for managers.

Explore managing projects and tasks within Teams, recognizing it doesn't replace Microsoft Project and excels at collaboration and team communication with simple project and task assignment.

Explore how Planner integrates with Microsoft Teams to create work plans, assign tasks, set due dates, and receive notifications while tracking progress via centralized dashboard in Teams or the web.

Demonstrates using Planner in Teams to create and assign tasks, view boards and calendars, filter by due date, and integrate with Outlook for simple team task management.

Create and manage Microsoft 365 groups, and understand the difference between groups and teams, highlighting benefits and features of a Microsoft 365 group beyond the team.

Learn how to create and manage Microsoft 365 groups in Outlook without admin portal access, set privacy, and link groups to Teams for shared files, calendars, and conversations.

Learn how SharePoint and OneDrive work together to store team data, access storage locations, and how these components are structured and utilized in Teams for managers.

Access and manage team storage across SharePoint Online and OneDrive from the Teams file tab or directly via the web, enabling easy sharing and precise permissions.

Link your local file explorer to a team's document library to enable automatic synchronization with OneDrive for Business, the primary location for saving data and attachments in Office apps.

Access SharePoint Online and OneDrive files from Teams, view document libraries, edit Word documents, and sync with OneDrive via the Teams client.

Explore how managers use Microsoft Teams to create teams, apply templates, add channels and apps, and integrate with Planner, SharePoint, and OneDrive for streamlined collaboration and document management.