If you schedule a meeting, that will bring you to the “New meeting” screen within the Teams interface, vs. Why do this instead of just calling colleagues directly? Because it’s in the channel, so you can record, use live captions, take meeting notes, access channel resources, and it all becomes part of that channel’s conversation and ongoing work, rather than private to only you and the other attendees. To them, this request will appear as if you are calling them to join you in the meeting. They can accept or decline. In the participant pane, you can click “Request to join” next to any suggested participants.

You can grab a link to send, or you can add participants on the fly. This is for ad hoc meetings, or if you need to enrich, say a chat conversation in the channel, by hopping into a call or live screen share on the fly.Īs you enter the meeting, you will have a few options to invite people to join you there. Meet now brings you right into the meeting interface and anyone in the channel can join in. In each channel, there is a Meet button with a drop-down menu, in the upper right. You can begin an immediate meeting using “Meet now” or you can schedule a meeting. And then within the team, there might be a Blog channel for those team members who help with and are invested in the blog activities specifically. Channels can be open to all team members, or a subset of team members.įor example, you might have a Marketing Team. Rather than inviting individuals to a meeting, there are some advantages to holding an open meeting in a Team channel. Channels are the places in Microsoft Teams where conversations happen and where a lot of collaborative work takes place. We love Teams, and we use it internally all the time, as well as training other organizations how to use Teams in a modern workplace environment.įor the purposes of this article, we’re assuming that you know the basics about meeting and navigating in Teams. (If not, please see Optimize Your Microsoft Teams Training with KnowledgeWave. Today we're sharing Microsoft Teams tips about meeting within a channel in Teams.

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