40 Microsoft Teams Productivity Tips

For my “blatant self-promotion” file I am providing this bulleted list of Microsoft Teams productivity tips. Compiled from my Teams Day Online sessions and various webinars done with Tom Duff (@duffbert) over the last couple years, I wanted to provide a link-list to the blog/ebook on the AvePoint site to help people quickly find and jump to the relevant tips. You can scroll through the entire list here, or jump to the link below:

1. Quick view of all of your Teams
2. Access the History Menu
3. Send urgent messages
4. Connect to your cloud storage
5. Use slash and keyboard commands
6. Refine your search results
7. Mark messages as unread
8. Use Meeting reactions
9. Leverage the immersive reader
10. Copy a Team to build a Team
11. Create a custom invite
12. Automate routine tasks with Power Automate
13. Use live transcriptions
14. Make your conversations more searchable
15. Treat meetings as documents
16. Use Yammer Q&A
17. Use Loop Components
18. Get organized with MyHub
19. Sync with Message Center updates
20. Utilize the Microsoft Teams Adoption Site
21. Leverage the full potential of Tabs
22. Reorganize your Teams and Channels
23. Set your status duration
24. Create Tabs in Chats
25. Bookmark important conversations
26. Redirect email conversations to Channels
27. Clean up your hypertext links
28. Leverage the mobile app (especially with multiple domains)
29. Sync files to your desktop
30. Pin important Apps to left rail
31. Use the Channel cross-posting
32. Use natural language search with Cortana in the mobile app
33. Microsoft Lens in Teams chat
34. Create Tags for groups of users
35. Create Teams templates
36. Leverage the shared OneNote
37. Record and Transcribe your meetings
38. Transfer a Meeting to another device
39. Gather feedback in Meetings with Polls
40. Recap your Meetings with Meeting Recap

• BONUS TIP: Reorganize your Teams + Channels for your org
• BONUS TIP: Add governance settings to Teams templates

I plan to continue adding to this list — and expanding the ebook on the AvePoint site. But I’m also planning to go through and blog about most of these with a more detailed walkthrough of each, so watch for that. And if you’re looking for more great content on Microsoft Teams, check out these resources:

• AvePoint blog posts, webinars, ebooks, etc.
• Microsoft Teams demo
• Microsoft Teams product roadmap
• Microsoft Teams on the Microsoft tech Community site