Microsoft Teams

Chat with GIFs, stickers and emojis

You can chat and send GIFs, stickers, and emojis in a group chat or in private chat.

With the chat feature in Teams, you can go directly to a call and you can share your screen. You can also tag people via @ and use your favorite apps.

Use chat instead of emails

Use chat for short answers and confirmations instead of sending emails.

You can share both photos and documents with one or more people – also outside your organization.

Organize your chats

You can organize your chat conversations, files, and apps in one place so that they are always updated and synchronized. You can decide which team members can view conversations and files on a particular topic.

Chat on the go

You can chat on the go, record voice messages, and customize messages from your mobile device.

Real-time collaboration

You can make sure everyone has the latest information by sharing files. You can easily upload files, set permissions, and collaborate simultaneously via Office apps.

Hold online meetings

With Teams you can hold online meetings with 1 person and up to 10,000, no matter where in the world they are.

Online meetings can be audio meetings where the camera is turned off or video meetings where the camera is turned on. Online meetings can be held from any device.

Also read about video meetings and live events.

Collaborate securely

You can work with high quality audio, video, and screen sharing with people inside and outside the organization.

Meeting units

You can also join Teams meetings via desk phones from Logitech, Xrestron, Polycom, Lenovo, HP, and Yealink. For example, you can via Flexfone participate in Teams meetings on desk phones from Yealink.

Read more about desk phones and Flexfone here.

Receive and make calls

Receive and make calls with internal and external people via Teams.

Video conferencing

With Microsoft Teams video meetings, you and your colleagues can meet, collaborate, and work safely wherever you are.

Collaborate with anyone virtually

You can invite attendees both inside and outside your organization via email to attend your video conference. During the meeting, you can use your Office 365 apps, screen sharing, chat, and digital whiteboards.

You can use video meetings for all kinds of meetings with one participant and many participants.

Control over your meetings

When holding video meetings, you can, for example, mute, remove uninvited attendees, and appoint presentation hosts. You have the option to let people outside your organization automatically attend the meeting or have them wait in the virtual lobby.

Live events

With Teams you can hold meetings live for people both inside and outside your organization. You can invite up to 10,000 participants.

File sharing

With Microsoft Teams, you can securely share and collaborate on files from just about anywhere.

Work safely together

You can work securely remotely via file sharing in the cloud. You can save, share, and edit files in Teams. You also have access to SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, and apps.

Work together in files

You can work together in the same file in real time, e.g., Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. You avoid confusing versions of the document, as Teams provides automatic synchronization and version history.

File sharing

You can share files in channels, meetings, and chats via a link or by uploading directly in Teams. Your uploaded files are automatically added to a document library, so you can access them across apps and devices.

Check what you share

You can decide who has access to or can edit files – and this applies both inside and outside your organization. You can easily manage access in your chats and through team membership in Teams.

Access to files anywhere

SharePoint and OneDrive are built into Teams. That way, you have access to your files and can view them, edit, and share them from any device, no matter where you are.

Apps and workflows

You can integrate your apps and automate workflows in Teams.

Integrate apps

You can integrate Microsoft, partner, and custom apps and workflows into Teams. You can use tabs, connectors, and bots to integrate them directly into Teams.

Explore Teams apps at Microsoft.

Build solutions with Power Platform

You can develop apps, automate workflows, and build dashboards with the Microsoft Power Platform – and then use them in Teams.

Security

Teams meet regulatory, legal, and organizational needs with different options for compliance with rules and standards.

Advanced safety capabilities

Your data is protected against malware in attachments, accidental sharing via chat, and suspicious user activity. Teams use encryption, multifactor authentication, and device management.

Security and Privacy in Teams

You have access to several information protection features, including:

Meeting settings

You can decide if people outside your organization can attend meetings directly or if they should wait in the lobby until someone gives them access.

In addition, the organizer can remove participants during the meeting.

Consent to record meeting

If the meeting is recorded, all participants will be notified. In the message, there will be a link to privacy policy for the participants, and the organizer of the meeting must check which participants have given consent to the recording.

Channel management

All channels have an owner. The owner can manage channel conversations and control who is and who is not allowed to share content in channel conversations.

Multifactor approval

With multifactor authentication, you can require users to provide other forms of verification to prove their identity.

Multifactor authentication also helps protect accounts from attacks that are protected by weak or stolen passwords.

Endpoint Manager

With Endpoint Manager, you can manage devices and apps and enforce conditional access to all devices.

Avoid data loss

You can prevent sensitive information from being accidentally shared with others.

Advanced Threat Protection

Advanced Threat Protection lets you protect users from malicious software hidden in files, including files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint.

Information barriers

To protect your business information in connection with for example conflicts of interest, you can control the communication between users and groups in Teams.

Storage policies

You can manage content in your organization by deleting or retaining information to comply with company policies, industry rules, and legal requirements.

Settings and policies

You can ensure compliance with your company policies with company-wide settings. You can tailor experiences to your users with policies for teams, messages, meetings, calls and more.

Meeting roles

The organizer of a meeting can define roles such as presentation host and participants, and thus control which meeting participants can present content in the meeting.

Access to recordings

You can restrict access to recordings of live events or meetings to include participants or invitees. Recordings are uploaded to Microsoft Stream and can subsequently be shared and downloaded according to the permission you have given.

Communication compliance

You can identify and prevent negative behavior such as bullying and harassment.

Encryption

Teams encrypt data both during transfer and hibernation mode. Teams use Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) for video, audio, files, chat, and desktop sharing.

Cloud App Security

With Cloud App Security you can identify and remedy suspicious activity such as deleting teams or adding unauthorized users.

eDiscovery, Legal Aid, Audit Log and Content Search

You can identify, retain, and manage information that may be relevant in legal matters.

Protect your data

You can access your data at any time and for any reason. Data is never used for advertising and is deleted after the end or expiration of your subscription.

App management

You can confidentially manage apps with detailed information for all apps available in your subscription. You also can streamline the process of testing and distributing enterprise apps.