Teams app in Office 365 combines workplace chat, meetings, notes, and attachments to make project teams more effective.  Teams was announced in early 2017 and has quickly become one of the most popular apps in Office 365 family.  It integrates seamlessly with SharePoint, Skype for Business and Outlook and makes the user experience very engaging.  Here are some of the key features of Teams app:

  1. Schedule Meetings from Outlook 

Using the Outlook add-in, you can now schedule Teams meetings right in Outlook, which will show up in your Outlook calendar as well as your meeting list within Teams.

2. SharePoint Integration

Every Team gets a SharePoint site so that members can easily collaborate on files as wells as use other features within SharePoint to be more effective.

3. Make Calls and Schedule Meetings

Teams provides you the ability to call your call and to hold meetings, no need to change apps.

4. Mobile-Device Friendly

You can use Microsoft Teams on these mobile platforms:

  • iOS
  • Android

  • Windows Phone

5. Channels

Within one Team, you can create Channels to organize your are chats by topic, location, project, or discipline.

Channels within a Team — picture courtesy of Microsoft