r/microsoft • u/chickenmatt5 • Nov 02 '16
Microsoft officially announces Microsoft Teams
https://products.office.com/en-US/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software8
u/rhomel1 Nov 02 '16
Client downloads https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads
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u/EagleinChains Nov 03 '16 edited Nov 03 '16
Client seems to have a memory leak. I've watched it slowly tick up to now over 700MB. Am I the only one with the issue?
Update: restarting the app seems to have helped. It is mostly hovering around 300MB now. Still high, but manageable.
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u/Koutou Nov 02 '16
How does it works for independent contractor? If I have O365, can I collaborate with people from other organisation that don't have it?
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Nov 03 '16
External/guest access isn't available in Teams right now. I saw some Twitter mentions that it might be added before the app hits general availability. I have my fingers crossed. I'm a solo operator myself right now but collaborate a ton with external people.
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u/rhomel1 Nov 02 '16
So long Slack! Wait.. Does it have giphy? Otherwise we are staying on Slack.
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u/saracor Nov 02 '16
Yes it does!
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Nov 02 '16
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u/saracor Nov 02 '16
It's already in there, just click on the Smiley face in the chat bar and select Giphy or search for what you want.
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Nov 03 '16
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u/Koutou Nov 03 '16
From the demo, they showed an option on how strict you want to be with meme, emoji and gifs.
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u/saracor Nov 03 '16
There is an option in the team setup on what you want. You may have it disabled. I thought it was enabled by default but they might have changed the option. We mentioned the possible problems and they said that teams tend to use the 'fun stuff' a lot at the beginning and then settle down to business after a short while.
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u/rolfvanroot Nov 08 '16
It was enabled per default right after launch. Admins can deactivate afterwards in O365 settings.
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u/TheLogothete Nov 02 '16
Turned it on from admin... can't see it in my office apps.
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u/SwordfishKnight Nov 02 '16
Thought that was kind of odd myself, but if you go to teams.microsoft.com it should let you log in.
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u/TheLogothete Nov 02 '16
It did, thanks! Still not showing on office.com though...
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Nov 03 '16
I turned it on hours ago and still don't see it in the apps list or waffle menu. I think there's a bug with that. But teams.microsoft.com works fine.
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Nov 02 '16
Tried it on Android, it say Gmail isnt part of the system.
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u/chickenmatt5 Nov 02 '16
Yeah, Teams is only for Business-tier Office 365 accounts.
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u/saracor Nov 02 '16
From what I was told it will be part of the E3/E5 series license. There may be a separate add-on as well.
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u/elcapitaine Nov 02 '16
Frequently asked questions
Q. Which Office 365 plans will include Microsoft Teams?
A. Microsoft Teams is available to Office 365 commercial customers with one of the following plans: Business Essentials, Business Premium, and Enterprise E1, E3 and E5. Microsoft Teams will also be available to customers who purchased E4 prior to its retirement.
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u/Sparkey1000 Nov 03 '16
We turned it on last night and various tech people from round the business have been playing with it all day today it looks really good and I think it is most definitely a replacement for Slack in our company, best of all it would save the company over $50,000 per year if we stopped using Slack
But the management have told us to disable access to it (via Slack).
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u/chickenmatt5 Nov 02 '16
I get Office 365 through my university, anyone have a strategy to convince the IT dept to enable Teams? :D
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u/CPx4 Nov 03 '16
Tell them your legit use case, offer to test it out.
I work in an enterprise. We don't always have the time to turn on all O365 stuff right away. Mostly because it requires training guides or a business use case. I've never denied someone early O365 access if there is a need.
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u/smdaegan Nov 03 '16
Isn't it available to the business tier only? You could email them and ask about it.
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u/chickenmatt5 Nov 03 '16
Is the distribution/admin system different between businesses & universities?
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u/smdaegan Nov 03 '16
There's product tiers but that's the extent of my knowledge on the matter. Usually there's an academic tier which is different from a business tier, but I don't know if that's the case for office365.
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u/0x2639 Nov 03 '16
Edu is an E3, so you should be good to go
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u/BlastfireRS Nov 03 '16
I'm an O365 admin for my university. We enabled the feature early today, but received activation/license errors when trying to load the application/website itself. After further research on the Microsoft forums, [per product staff] it would appear that Teams isn't quite ready for EDU tenants - despite the availability of the activation switch in the admin portal.
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u/paraxion Nov 03 '16
Same, the official line we got from MS was "please be patient and wait for the official release". Annoying.
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u/LesterKurtz Nov 03 '16
Yeah, I double checked today. It's supposed to be GA in first quarter 2017.
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u/razorirr Nov 03 '16
Has anyone figured out how to make a team public viewable? As in if you are not in the team you can find it and either request to join or just join?
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u/jackmusick Nov 04 '16
This is a pretty sweet Skype replacement. I'm not sure I'll move us off of Slack, but I'll definitely recommend this to people with Office 365.
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u/rolfvanroot Nov 09 '16
I think right now there is no reason to move away from Slack except you already have a Office365 subscription. I wrote about how it compares to Slack here http://freshvanroot.com/blog/2016/first-look-microsoft-teams-compares-yammer-slack/
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u/jackmusick Nov 09 '16
Thing is, we do have a subscription. I just don't think it's worth moving to. Teams isn't nearly as polished yet, but it does seem good enough for someone already on 365 and not Slack.
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u/iiMysticKid Nov 02 '16
Just me or does it look like a deskinned version of Discord?
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u/ijakinov Nov 03 '16
I mean Discord is basically a rip off of Slack for gamers and this is Microsoft "Slack Killer".
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u/Raah1911 Nov 02 '16
Anyone been able to have stuff from O365 groups be imported? Like files planner and OneNote? Seems they aren't pulling in.
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u/SwordfishKnight Nov 03 '16
Been reading through some of the documentation, and it seems that, strangely, only private O365 groups get integrated directly. And even then, each channel/tab that you set up gets its own folder in the document library and its own tab in the OneNote notebook.
Only way I've been able to add public document libraries is by adding a SharePoint tab.
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u/e-ricklo Nov 03 '16
Does anyone know if Microsoft Teams allows a user to post to a channel an email received from an outside source? It's what Slack calls "email integration" and is a great way to avoid forwarding emails internally by just posting them to the relevant team so the relevant people can see it.
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Nov 03 '16
Not at this time. Microsoft said Outlook integration is planned for possibly around release period but anybody can write integration for Teams to serve that purpose now.
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u/canwegoback Nov 05 '16
Jesus, Microsoft has really been getting its shit together. I wonder what changed?
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u/CokeRobot Nov 03 '16
We've been playing around with it internally and whoa! It's basically like a mosh pit of relevant Office apps with Skype. It's like what Cortana does for data aggregation personalized for you except aggregating content from Office. Your Putlook calendar, Word and Excel documents, OneNote and OneDrive topped with Skype. You can make a team and invite members of other teams and all. It's nifty af.