{"id":179319,"date":"2018-03-07T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ntegrait.com\/tell-me-why-arent-you-using-microsoft-teams\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:28:58","slug":"tell-me-why-arent-you-using-microsoft-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntegrait.com\/tell-me-why-arent-you-using-microsoft-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me \u2013 Why Aren\u2019t You Using Microsoft Teams?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Don\u2019t You Want to Be in Control of Your Business?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guest post by one of our legal IT <\/em>support clients.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m an attorney who owns a law practice with four offices throughout the state of Virginia. It\u2019s essential that my employees and I stay connected on the cases we work on. I\u2019m on the road a lot, so this isn\u2019t always easy to do. However, I recently discovered Microsoft Teams. I can\u2019t tell you how much it has helped me keep everyone on the same page.<\/p>\n

\"Microsoft<\/p>\n

It took me some time to do this because I often get overwhelmed with all the new business tools today. It seems like a new one is launched every day. Plus, everything we do is confidential, and I was concerned about using online communication solutions. However, when a colleague told me how much time and money he saved when his employees used Teams, I thought I\u2019d give it a try. Boy, am I glad I did.<\/p>\n

Like me, I found that a lot of my business friends either didn\u2019t know about Microsoft Teams or they just \u201cdidn\u2019t have the time\u201d to learn it. When I heard this, I made it my mission to inform them and others how great it is.<\/p>\n

So, What is Microsoft Teams?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microsoft Teams<\/strong><\/a> is a chat-based workspace in Office 365<\/strong><\/a> that lets you bring together other users and collaborate with conversations and content. The idea behind using Teams is to help you do more and increase your employees\u2019 productivity. Basically, it helps your teams get work done. You can easily integrate it with other Microsoft Office applications via its secure cloud.<\/p>\n

Teams will help you standardize processes for your employees who do the same kind of work. With my employees spread out between four offices in different cities across Virginia, it was difficult to get a consensus on projects. Teams provides the organizational capabilities and transparency that we need to easily share information and make decisions.<\/p>\n

This saves us so much time and effort. Our discussions and decisions in Teams are securely archived and stored in the Office Graph<\/strong><\/a> so we can go back into our Conversations at any time and review what was communicated. (Conversations<\/strong><\/a> is one of the main features in Teams.)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s How We Use Teams in A Law Practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I set Teams up with me as the Manager. Teams organizational structure is much like the way our firm is set up. I\u2019m the Manager, and I oversee other managers in my four offices.\u00a0 So, I simply set up our Teams this way.<\/p>\n

I can set the controls from Teams right from Office 365 Admin<\/strong><\/a> in the Groups Control Panel. Here I can establish who can create teams, and what features they can use. If I decide to add a manager or user, I can go in at any time and update the settings.<\/p>\n

Teams has multiple settings that I can turn on or off at the Tenant Level<\/strong><\/a> in Office 365. To do this, I simply go to the Office 365 admin center<\/strong> and open Settings<\/strong> > Services & add-ins<\/strong>.\u00a0 From here I select Microsoft Teams<\/strong>. Then I sign in and go from there.<\/p>\n

I set up Teams so my managers and I can all access:<\/p>\n