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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a workspace for people who work together. Start with a chat or meeting for a quick exchange. Create a Team when the collaboration needs a shared purpose, context, and ownership that lasts beyond one conversation.

A Team brings people together for a collaboration. A channel gives a topic within that collaboration its own place. An app provides a tool to get the work done. Chat, meetings, shared content, and apps can support either informal or structured work.

Best For​

Use Teams to coordinate work with people, discuss decisions, meet, and use the tools that support the work. A department may keep a Team for years; a project may use one until its work ends. A short question or one-time meeting may need only a chat.

Teams And SharePoint​

Teams centers on the people doing the work together. SharePoint centers on the information being organized, managed, or published. A SharePoint site can serve a Team, a department, or an organization-wide audience. Teams uses SharePoint sites for channel content, while SharePoint also supports information and publishing needs beyond Teams. See SharePoint.

Explore Teams​

  1. Choose between chat, meetings, Teams, and channels.
  2. Give topics a place and manage their lifecycle.
  3. Use apps as tools for the work.