Summary

Microsoft Teams seemingly came out of nowhere as the hero of enterprise social networking and collaboration. During the trying times that people and organizations were dealing with due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many turned to Microsoft Teams as a solution to their social connectivity issues as the workforce and education were driven home into remote working situations that many were facing for the first time. This left many admins scrambling to get up to speed with the Microsoft Teams application and the opportunities for extendibility within this platform.

Microsoft Teams offers phone communication, virtual meeting capabilities, Outlook integration, document management, and chat-in-conversation features all in one place. As amazing as Teams is from a business perspective, from an administrative perspective, it is important to understand that Microsoft Teams is a layer on top of SharePoint and not a replacement for SharePoint. It is very important that as an administrator...