Chats
Teams allow users to communicate through chats. Chats in Teams are persistent so users do not have to check a conversation history unlike Skype for Business. Teams allow users to format text, use emojis, during chats. Users can choose to mark a message as urgent or important. Important messages show up with a red side border and an exclamation mark, urgent messages notify the receiver at regular intervals until they are seen.
Group Chat
It supports one-on-one as well as group chats. Users can create call-in groups.
File Sharing
It allows file sharing through chats.
Teams
Teams allow communities, groups, or teams to join through a specific URL or invitation sent by a team administrator or owner. Teams for Education allows admins and teachers to set up specific teams for classes, professional learning communities (PLCs), staff members, and everyone.
Channels
Within a team, members can set up channels. Channels are topics of conversation that allow team members to communicate without the use of email or group SMS (texting). Users can reply to posts with text as well as images, GIFs, and custom-made memes.
Direct messages allow users to send private messages to a specific user rather than a group of people.
Connectors are third-party services that can submit information to the channel. Connectors include MailChimp, Facebook Pages, Twitter, PowerBI, and Bing News.
Calling
Calling is provided by: instant messaging, Voice over IP (VoIP), and video conferencing inside the client software. Teams also support public switched telephone network (PSTN) conferencing allowing users to call phone numbers from the client.
Meeting
Meetings can be scheduled or created ad hoc and users visiting the channel will be able to see that a meeting is currently in progress. Teams also have a plugin for Microsoft Outlook to invite others into a team meeting. This supports thousands of users that can connect via a meeting link.
Teams Live Events
Teams Live Events replaces Skype Meeting Broadcast with the ability for users to broadcast to 10,000 participants on Teams, Yammer, or Microsoft Stream.
Education
Microsoft Teams allows teachers to distribute, provide feedback, and grade student assignments turned in via Teams using the Assignments tab, available to Office 365 for Education subscribers. Quizzes can also be assigned to students through integration with Office Forms.
Protocols
Microsoft Teams is based on a number of Microsoft-specific protocols. Video conferences are realized over the protocol MNP24, known from the Skype consumer version. The protocol MS-SIP from Skype for Business is not used anymore to connect Team clients. VoIP and video conference clients based on SIP and H.323 need special gateways to connect to Microsoft Teams servers. With the help of the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE), clients behind Network address translation routers and restrictive firewalls are also able to connect, if peer-to-peer is not possible.
Usage
| July 11, 2019 | 13 million |
| March 12, 2020 | 32 million |
| March 19, 2020 | 44 million |
| April 29, 2020 | 75 million |
| April 27, 2021 | 145 million |
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