Microsoft Teams - User Guide

The following is a general guide to the features available to you through Teams.

This starts a new conversation. Everyone who has access to the group chat can send messages. You can include up to 100 people in a group chat. 
To add more people into the conversation, just click Add people  (or View and add participants in a group chat) in the top right corner of Teams. Then, type the names of the people you'd like to chat with, select how much of the chat history to include, and click Add.  

Schedule a meeting: 
For more information on scheduling meetings, visit the following page: Microsoft Teams - Scheduling a Teams Meeting 
There are two ways to schedule a meeting within Teams:
1. Select Schedule a meeting  in a chat (below the box where you type a new message) to book a meeting with the people in the chat.
2. Go to Calendar  on the left side of the app and select New meeting in the top right corner. Select a range of time in the calendar. A scheduling form will pop open.
Once you're done filling out the details, select Save. This will close the scheduling form and send an invite to everyone's Outlook inbox.
Invite people outside your organization 
Teams lets you invite people outside your organization, including those who don't have a Teams license. You'll need their full email address to invite them.
1. Go to where it says Add required attendees. If anyone is an optional attendee, select Optional instead.
2. Type the person's full email address.
3. Select Invite. They'll receive an email with a link to the meeting.

Make video and audio calls: 
1. Go to your chat list, and click New chat  to start a new conversation. 
2. Type the name or names into the To field at the top of your new chat.

3. Then click Video call  or Audio call  to start a call. 
Note: Up to 20 people can be on the same video call. 

Manage Notifications:
There are multiple ways to access and manage notifications. To further customize your notification settings, select your profile picture at the top, right corner of Teams, then select  Settings >  Notifications. From there you can fine-tune what notifications you receive and where those notifications show up. 
In Activity on the left side of Teams, select More options  on a notification. From the menu, you can mark a notification as read or unread. You can also turn on or off notifications for a specific channel if you want.
Notifications options
You have a couple of options when it comes to personalizing your notifications. Quickly, Teams gives you the options to:
Receive notifications on your desktop and within the app for all activity
Receive notifications only for specific mentions or replies
A customized experience where you specifically choose when and with what information you get notified about
Additionally, you can quickly edit specific notification heavy features of Teams like chats and meetings

Keep notifications in the app
Select Only show in feed. This means all notifications will be sent to your activity feed, which you can find at the top left corner of Teams.
The app will still show notifications on your desktop taskbar, but no pop-up will show.

Get notified in app and on desktop
Select Banner and feed and you’ll receive notifications as both a desktop notification and as an alert in your activity feed.

How to get all notifications for all activity
Once you’ve got all your channels where you want them, you’ll start receiving notifications in Activity. If you’d also like to get these notifications on your desktop, select Settings > Notifications > and select Edit under Shown channels and select Banner and feed.