Microsoft 365 Portal

Online : Teams

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You can access Microsoft 365 Teams by visiting https://teams.microsoft.com

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Sign in with the admin username and password you were provided with as part of your setup

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Select Use the web app instead.

QCreating Your First Team

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Select Create a team

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Select Build a team from Scratch.

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Choose what type of Team you would like to create

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Give your new Team a name, and optionally a quick description then click Create.

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Your new Team will be created and ready to get started

QAdding a new channel

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Apart from the automatically created General channel that's created with a new Team, you can create additional channels for more specific conversations. To do this, select the ... icon next to the Team you would like to create the new channel for and select Add Channel

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Enter the details of the new channel and optional description. Choose your Privacy details and whether or not you would like the channel to be shown in everyone's channel list.

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Your new channel will show under your Team

QAdd team members to a channel

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As well as create a company wide channel where everyone on your Office 365 domain will be added and able participate, you may have teams created specifically for a department where you would want only members of that department involved. To add members to a Team, select the ... icon next to the Team you would like to add the new member for and select Add member.

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Type in the name of the individual or group you want to add to the channel and select Add.

QRemove a team member from a channel

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To remove a team member from a channel, Select the ... icon next to the team you would like to remove the Team member from and select Manage Team.

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Under the Members tab then under the Members and guests sub section, click on the X icon to remove that team member

QSearch for other Team members and start a conversation

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Left click in the long search bar at the top of the application and type the name of the person you wish to find then left click them

QAdd another Team member to the conversation

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Click the Add person icon in the top right to bring up a search prompt

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Type their name and then select it from the list to add them

You will then see their name listed in the conversation participants at the top:

QStart a video call

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Click the icon highlighted from the figure below

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If using a browser, you may be prompted to confirm you wish Teams to have permission to use your camera and microphone

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After the call is accepted the conference will commence

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