Set up and customize your team: Get your team up and running

As you’re working from home and managing remote employees, Microsoft Teams is a central hub for teamwork. This tutorial will how you how to set up and use Microsoft Teams to make the most of work from home productivity.

To get your team up and running in Microsoft Teams, create a team, add people, and add channels. After watching, you’ll walk away with all the steps to add members to your teams and channels, and even customize your settings to add a team picture and give your team some personality.

Create a team

1. Select Teams> Join or create a team.This is where you create your own team, or discover existing ones.
2. Select Create a new team, and then select Build a team from scratchor select Create from… to build an all-new team or create from an existing group respectively.
3. Select Privateif you’d like people to request permission to join, or select Public if anyone in your org can join.
4. Give the team a name and add a short description if you’d like.
5. Select Create.
6. Add members.You can add people, groups, or even entire contact groups.

If you need to add people from outside your organization, use their email address to invite them as guests. Add a friendly display name for them too.

1. When you’re done adding members, select Addand then Close.

Create a channel

By default, every team gets a General channel, which is a good channel to use for announcements and information the whole team needs. To add more channels:

1. Select More options…next to the team name.
2. Select Add channel.
3. Enter a name and description for your channel.You can build a channel around a topic, project, department name, or whatever you like.
4. Select Automatically show this channel in everyone’s channel listif you want this channel to be automatically visible in everyone’s channel list.
5. Select Add.

Customize and manage your team

1. Select  More options…next to the team name.
2. Select Manage teamto find Members, Channels, Settings, and Apps for your team all in one place.
3. Select Settings> Team picture to add a team picture and give your team some personality.