Top 10 MS Teams Features Not to Miss to Start 2023

Without any doubt, effective collaboration and management of Microsoft Teams play a significant role in organisations’ growth. According to research, the businesses that collaborate have 70% higher chances to be on the path of innovation than the ones that do not.  

This matter of having efficient collaboration has been resolved a great deal by different team communication applications. With over a quarter of a million users, MS Teams is one of the most popular ones when it comes to the management, communication, and streamlining of teams.  

This article covers the ten most key features of MS Teams that will make your organisation’s processes smoother.  

1. Activity Feed

MS Teams displays all the activity under the activity feed for you to easily filter all noise around you. It ensures that you do not miss any important updates from colleagues and can easily track things.

2. One-on-One and Group Chats

With MS Teams, communication is smooth in all aspects. You can search for any contact and have a direct chat with them. Also, MS Teams allows you to create groups for easy communication between multiple individuals. 

3. Application Integrations 

MS Teams is a lot flexible as it allows integration with numerous popular applications. This allows the companies to connect all their software platforms under one roof.  

4. Channel Division 

Sort your communication and teams into distinctive channels. The channels can be created as public and private. In addition to that, there is a lot of control in terms of managing the teams in channels. 

5. Reaction on Messages

MS Teams allows you to react to messages with any emoji of your choice. It serves as a quick method of acknowledging an update or a message, saving you from the complete text message. (And well, they are fun too!)

6. Mentions

With MS Teams, you can mention any individual in your organization in a channel, conversation, or group chat. It sends them a prioritised notification of being mentioned which ensures that they do not miss that update or task. 

7. Scheduling Assistant 

This feature is one of the most amazing ones and resolves all the meeting conflicts, unavailability of members, and such. It allows you to visit through the free slots of all the members you intend to add to the meeting. This helps in ensuring that there are no two meetings scheduled for the person in the same time slot and in times they are unavailable.  

8. Meeting Recordings 

Never miss vital details, learnings, and discussions by recording the meetings. The MS Teams not only allow you to record the meetings but also keeps the transcription (all spoken voice to text) and the recording file in the channels for access later. 

9. Screen Control

During a meeting, you can share your screen for visual content. However, an interesting feature is that you can give access to your screen to meeting participants as well. It makes interaction and collaboration easier. This unique feature allows for multiple mouse cursors to move at the same time on one screen. 

10. Live Captions

This feature can be activated during the meeting. It provides live captions, just like with Netflix subtitles! So, you do not miss any important things due to the language barrier, crackling speaker or so. This feature works for multiple languages which you can find on this link. 

Overall, there is a lot in MS Teams at any point in time to cater to any organization’s collaboration requirements. Do not forget that Microsoft is continuously releasing updates to give customer a better experience and ease, soon we shall even see more AI applications being integrated into the MS Teams, thanks to the raising ChatGPT. 

What an exciting time to be Teams 'user and administrator! 

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