K2’s Microsoft Teams

Overview

Microsoft Teams is one of the most exciting personal and organizational productivity tools ever appearing on the business landscape. With Teams, you can communicate and collaborate easily and securely with others, including colleagues outside your organization. Further, you can extend the already-robust functionality in Teams by incorporating add-in solutions with just a few mouse clicks. Unfortunately, despite Teams’ power and relatively simple interface, many organizations struggle to deploy and use Teams.

In this session, you will learn how to get up and running quickly in Teams to take full advantage of this powerful tool. More specifically, you will learn how to get started in Teams and critical decisions affecting your deployment. Also, you will learn how to work in Teams, take advantage of the chat, voice, and video call services, and share documents securely with others. Moreover, you will learn how to extend your Teams platform to external organizations for improved communication and collaboration. Additionally, you will identify how to add other applications to Teams and optimize Team's configuration for the best overall efficiency and security. If you are working with Teams or plan to do so, this is one CPE session you can’t afford to miss!

Highlights

• Understanding the Teams platform
• Communicating and collaborating in Teams
• Adding applications and services to Teams
• Extending Teams to individuals outside your organization

Prerequisites

Fundamental knowledge of computer applications

Designed For

CPAs and other business professionals who are seeking to leverage their Office 365/Microsoft 365 subscriptions by taking advantage of Teams for improved communication and collaboration

Objectives

• Identify critical potential benefits associated with using Microsoft Teams
• List various elements of functionality offered by Teams
• Differentiate between “guest” and “external” users in Teams
• Cite examples of additional applications that you can incorporate into Teams
• Name examples of communication options available in Teams
• Specify examples of security measures available in Teams