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Overview of teams and channels in microsoft Teams

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A team is a group of people who get together for work or projects, or have common interests, with the aim of accomplishing specific goals.

Each team is comprised of two types of channels – standard channels that are accessible and visible to everyone and private channels that are focused on a specific audience. Every channel has a special purpose. You can have a channel for “Team Events,” for business names, or simply to have fun. In a channel, meetings can be held, conversations can be held, and people can collaborate on files together in real time.

Throughout the channel, you will find tabs that will take you to your favorite files, apps, and services.

Add a tab

  • The tabs can be expanded by selecting the plus sign.Using Planner, you can track team tasks using a project board.

Channels can be pinned and unpinned

You may want to pin the most important channels if you have a lot of them, so that you will be able to find them easily.

  • It is possible to pin a channel by choosing one to pin, then selecting More channels > Pin to pin it.
  • It’s easy to unpin a channel: simply select the channel you want to unpin and select More channels > Unpin, then select more options as needed to learn how to do it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

As the name implies, a team is a group of people in your organization who come together to accomplish something big. In some cases, it is your entire organization that is affected. Whenever you are part of a team, you are part of a channel, which is a way to communicate with your teammates. There are different channels dedicated to topics, departments, or projects that are relevant to the channel.
A channel is a place where you can schedule meetings, discuss files, and have conversations with friends and colleagues. You can access your favorite files, apps, and services by clicking the tabs at the top of each channel.
During the lifetime of a team, you will be able to create up to 200 channels. This number does not include channels that you have created and later deleted.
Click on more channels underneath the list of channels that you’ve favorited in a team to see all the channels in that team that you’ve favorited. Navigate to the Manage Team tab, and then click on the Channels tab at the top. As part of the Channels tab, team owners have the option of adding or removing channels that have been auto-favorited. Channels can be viewed by clicking on the following option.
In the left navigation, you can find the chat icon that allows you to send a direct message to anyone or a group of people by clicking on it. On the other hand, channel posts are found within the Teams icon in the left navigation, and can be used to message members of a Microsoft Team or a channel within a Microsoft Team that are members of that team.
To manage the channel in a Teams channel, you need to click on More options …You will then be able to select Manage channel from the menu. Moderation can be turned on and off here, team members can be added as moderators, and preferences can be changed. Each channel can be moderated individually.
Roles can be assigned and members can be added or removed using the Members and Settings tabs. As many as 250 members can be added to your private channel.
A private channel is not only a private channel for the team members who have been added to it, but it is also exclusive to the members who have not yet joined the team.
SharePoint folder
Your team’s SharePoint folder contains a list of files that you can upload to a channel. On the top of each channel, you will find a tab called Files that gives you access to all of these files. In a one-on-one or group chat, you can upload files that are shared only with the people who are also part of the conversation and which are stored in the OneDrive for Business folder.
Create a private channel
  1. To create a private channel for a specific team, go to that team’s page and click More options > …
  2. The name and description of your channel should be entered here.
  3. Then select the down arrow in the Privacy section on the right and select Private – Specific teammates have access to this profile.
  4. The private channel will be added to the team by selecting the Create button.
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