Microsoft Teams

What differentiates Microsoft Teams from other similar products?

Easy to share files and can save file and modify it real time

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Calendar. We can easily see our colleagues schedule by viewing the calendar

What do you dislike most about this product?

Currently it is having an issue with the user status. Others can see that the user is away or offline even if not.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend them to use this when scheduling a meeting. We can easily schedule a meeting with someone using the same product because we have a view of their availability using the calendar

What differentiates Microsoft Teams from other similar products?

Its integration into Sharepoint sites makes it a great companion for departments or teams looking for chat capabilities on top of their existing sites. It also works very well for external collaboration with people not part of the company.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The organization of channels and simplicity of looking for files shared within Teams makes it very simple to keep track of information. It makes it very easy to maintain contact with team members when people are working remotely.

What do you dislike most about this product?

We have run into some complications inviting external people to Teams, but this is actually related to Mail Users and how we have them set up currently. It would just be nice if Teams could cope with this better rather than having to rework how those accounts are set up. The fix is not too complicated though, and this is not a direct issue with Teams.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

There are other chat and collaboration platforms out there. But for anyone using Office 365 already, and especially Sharepoint, give Teams a try to see how it works for your use case. We don't use it for our phone system, so I can't speak to those capabilities. But for chat and file collaboration, Teams does these tasks very well and we have no complaints. It has solved external collaboration barriers for other departments and teams as well.

What differentiates Microsoft Teams from other similar products?

Here's the main difference: Zoom is purely a video conferencing tool whereas MS Teams is an all-in-one tool that combines video conferencing with team chat and other productivity features.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

MS Teams offers longer group meetings of about 1 hour even in their free plan.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There are just two points about MS Teams that I dislike.. 1) Unnecessary storage consumption 2) Increased security risk.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Microsoft Teams app is all about better communication and business benefits. For businesses, this cloud-based platform with integrated Microsoft products is a game-changer.