Microsoft Teams is one of the most exciting collaboration tools within Office 365. Within IS, we’ve been using the Meetings “live events” function of Teams to produce the current format of our IS Open Forum calls with great success. Currently, most of IS has had to join via the web viewer to participate, but soon all IS caregivers will have the full MS Teams experience.
Teams is much more than Meetings; it’s a great collaboration tool for keeping conversations and files used by shared working group in one, integrated place. After months of discernment and planning, MS Teams is rolling out across PSJH Shared Services on the night of June 24, 2019 and available to them the morning of Tuesday, June 25, 2019.
Receiving the functionality of Teams across Shared Services is the latest in the phased rollout of Microsoft Office 365 tools that started in 2018 with Shared Services transitioning to O365 Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Yammer. It will also give us a standard collaboration platform as we drive to streamline our portfolio of solutions and retire Cisco Webex Meetings, Webex Teams, and the SJH “6808” conference bridge.
What Teams does best
- Keep team conversations and files in one place
- Rapid, informal group chat
- Iterate content quickly on a project
- Quickly create a new collaboration space; an IT ticket is not required
- “Inner dialog” for your team or project
- Instant messaging (group chat, or one-to-one)
- Bring the Office 365 apps together with customizable tabs
More information
You can find resources to learn the ins and outs of Teams on the OneTeam site.
Review the high-level overview of how Teams supports our journey to a shared set of enterprise-wide OneTeam collaboration tools, including upcoming OneTeam Live training sessions.
Email the OneTeam collaboration team with other questions at PSJHISOneTeam@providence.org.