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Contact Card: Click on your name to Edit see your contact card. View your recent activity, see your Org chart, view what details others see about you, and edit your Teams profile picture.
Set Status Message: Configure what you want your status banner to show when people try to message you.
Manage Notification: Schedule quiet hours, choose how you receive your notifications for all channels globally, and toggle different kinds of notification categories. You can also change Meeting reminders and notification sounds.
Settings: Set your theme, manage data storage, configure read receipts, and manage sign-ins.
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New Event: Calendar icon with a plus at the top-rightmost can be used to open the event creation menu. Fill out your meeting’s details and send the event to others. Includes options to share to channels, set reminder times, and fill out an event description.
Audio and Video Conferencing
Joining a Meeting
Teams meetings are typically shared via a calendar invite that contains a link to the video call. If you have Microsoft Teams installed the link will ask or automatically open in the Teams application. If it is not installed, a web browser will be used or it will take you to the App Store (Apple | Android) page for Microsoft Teams
When joining a meeting, you will initially be shown a screen to configure your audio/video settings.
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Camera Toggle: Far left slider, choose to have video enabled or disabled when you join.
Background Blur Toggle: Middle slider, if the Camera is toggled on, configure a background to overlay the area behind you.
Microphone Toggle: Far right slider, toggle the microphone on or off.
Custom Setup: Select which devices to use. Change inputs for Camera and Microphone, and Speakers for output.
Once you have your settings how you like them, click “Join now” to enter the call. Don’t worry, these settings will be saved for you next time you join a meeting.
Meeting Toolbar
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Turn Camera On/Off: Far left button, choose to enable or disable your video feed.
Turn Microphone On/Off: Second to the right button, enable or disable your microphone for people hearing your sound.
Speakerphone: Choose where to play sound from on your phone. Earpiece speaker, Loud speaker, or Audio off.
Show conversation: Second icon to the right at the top-rightmost of the call screen. Use it to view the chat room that is specific to the meeting.
Show participants: Top-rightmost icon, View the attendees of the meeting.
More options: Fourth to the right button (horizontal ellipses menu) can be used to view less commonly used settings that aren’t placed directly on the toolbar
Start recording: Save a recording of the meeting to your https://stream.microsoft.com account.
Put me on hold: Pause all of your inputs
Call me: Transfer the Teams meeting to your phone’s native SIM data calling application.
Share: Third to right button, open the options for presenting your screen, a powerpoint, video, or photo to the participants of the meeting.
Raise my hand: Shows the meeting organizers or other participants that you would like to take the next opportunity to speak to the crowd.
Dialpad: Used if a call prompts you to input numbers or press Pound.
Start/Stop video with blur: Toggles the camera and the background overlay setting together.
Turn off incoming video: Disable the camera feed of all users (specific to you).
Cortana: Enable the virtual assistant Cortana to help you schedule meetings, invite attendees, and more with voice activation.
Hang up
Creating a Teams Meeting
To create a Teams meeting on the desktop version of Outlook, follow this guide instead
Open the Teams application and navigate to the Calendar tab
At the top-right, click the New Event icon depicted by a Calendar with a plus overlayed.
Give your meeting a Title
Add the participants
Set a time for the meeting
Give the meeting a description
Click Done
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