Maintain productivity effectively working with Microsoft Teams

The past two weeks marked our memorable milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic in regions across the country. When the number of infected cases shows signs of increasing, the Government has also advised people to limit going out and social isolation until the epidemic is under control. In this context, SMB businesses, which have been severely affected by the disease, are the most clearly affected by these measures. We are also witnessing a strong entrepreneurial spirit as restaurants begin to focus on delivery services, direct services being quickly converted to online businesses, or online retail stores. are working non-stop 24/7. But when schools were closed, crowded activities and events were delayed, many businesses required employees to work remotely,our personal and professional lives are suddenly intertwined, while we all struggle to maintain the health and safety of both our businesses and our families.

We understand that businesses can not manage if the business is suspended to support your business to maintain operation, Microsoft decided to completely free Teams application, helping users have Get a better work experience. Plus, you get a free trial of advanced paid features for up to 6 months. Therefore, now is the right time for you to explore and start using Microsoft Teams

What is Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams is a software solution that helps SMBs perform many essential business activities remotely. With Teams, you can chat, collaborate, meetings with employees, customers, suppliers and partners via cyberspace. Microsoft Office applications are built right into Teams, so you can use and share any Words, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook files without converting tools. Recently, I also shared some tips for working remotely via Teams for my colleagues. If you are new to this tool in particular, or how to work remotely in general, these shares may be useful for you.

The salient features of Microsoft Team are:

• Chat feature: Allows users to search for colleagues to chat, create Group chats like Facebook, tag team members 'names to assign jobs, track the completion of members' work, and functions. remind when the deadline is close, the function to remind the deadline for the recipient, create a survey or set an event . 

• Share documents easily: Thanks to Microsoft Team integrated with One Drive. The sharer has full control over the data, through setting permissions on the document such as editing or viewing the document.

• Control documents sharing quickly and scientifically: With the track feature of sharing shared documents in group chat, managers can easily know the entire interaction of members with the file.

• Allow adding new members to the group: The manager can add new members and grant them permission to read old exchange content in the group, or to follow only the content since the time of joining the group.

• Has Filter function to make managing group messages easier. Accordingly, users will control and track messages with their name tag, unread messages, tracking messages and favorite messages. This helps users not to miss any messages in the group.

• Microsoft Team allows customizing functional tabs according to user needs such as Survey Monkey, Trello, Jira Cloud, Webex, .

• Using AI smart technology: This technology helps to make group meetings more efficient. Thanks to the cloud meeting recording feature, inline message translation helps members of the language barrier can communicate with each other easily, interact with voice, blur the background on video, share screens. Data, additional Skype room system available for meetings.

• Security features of modern Microsoft Team and adhere to global network security standards.

Bring Teams to everyone

If your company already owns an Office 365 license, you can get started right here. Or even if you are not yet using Office 365, we still ensure that you can access Teams during this difficult time. Here are some simple ways to bring Teams to everyone in your organization right away - even if you don't own Office 365.

For individuals and organizations who register directly for a trial from Microsoft.com

If you want to directly sign up for Teams from Microsoft, follow the steps below:

• Go to Microsoft.com and sign up for a free trial of Office 365 Business Premium, including full-featured Teams.

• Or if you have a user email, like Gmail or Outlook, you can sign up for Teams for free through the Microsoft Product page.

For businesses that are customers of Microsoft partners

If you are a new Microsoft customer, or a former customer but don't currently own licenses including Microsoft Teams (for example, Exchange Online or Office 365 Business), you can work with a Microsoft partner to get a copy. Try Teams for free for 6 months.

If you are not currently working with a partner but would like to, you can search on the network of Microsoft Teams expert partners at the official website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/solution-providers/home. This program is suitable for companies with less than 1,000 users.

At a time when so many of us are turning to remote work, we hope that Teams can help you continue promoting your business. We are committed to accompany customers to their businesses through this difficult period.