Meetings in Microsoft Teams

As a substitute for Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams has a lot of calling and meeting functionalities that extend communication to a new level in the modern workplace. A meeting in Microsoft Teams can be started spontaneously by clicking on the Meet now button, or it can be planned ahead of time and scheduled by generating a meeting request that is then sent to other participants.

In the following section, you will learn how to schedule a meeting, and how to use all the available options to get the best out of the media functionalities of Microsoft Teams.

Schedule a meeting using the Calendar application

Meetings can be scheduled directly from the Microsoft Teams application, or from Microsoft Outlook. In the Outlook web version, the option to create a new Teams meeting is available by default; in the desktop version, however, it requires the Teams add-on to be installed on your computer.

To schedule a meeting from Microsoft Teams, do...