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Educators and students: Kick off the school year with steps to set up class teams, connect with students, and more. LEARN MORE Microsoft Teams training See the basics or explore more with these training courses.

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How to use the new Breakout Rooms on Microsoft Teams.

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Avoid coronavirus scams: What you need to know

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This year we have all faced significant challenges brought about by the global outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19). Now, more than ever before, we are relying on technology to stay connected. With this increased use of technology in our daily lives, there are undoubtedly greater risks presented.

It has never been more important to equip our children and young people with the knowledge, skills and resilience to navigate the online world. Protecting children and young people from harmful activity online is critical. It is therefore vital that we provide an education system that enables our learners to embrace technology and contribute positively online.

For many years we have recognised the importance of online safety. However in this third decade of the twenty-first century, learning how to be safe from harm online has become more complex, and the term 'safe' is no longer sufficient. We must support our learners in becoming safe and responsible online and ultimately, digitally resilient.

We live in a world where misinformation, disinformation and bots pose a significant risk, not just to our safety, but also to our fundamental decision-making. The influence of misinformation and disinformation is vast and research has demonstrated that disinformation spreads significantly faster, deeper and more broadly than true information. It's essential we teach our children and young people to become critical thinkers and to always evaluate and check information before they trust it, act on it or share it further.

It's also undoubtedly true that the twenty-first century's most valuable commodity is data and we must accept that cyber security is no longer just the business of major corporate firms. It's essential for us to all protect our devices and our data to reduce the chances of becoming a victim of cybercrime. These habits start young and are grounded in the very basic habits of cyber hygiene such as strong passwords and understanding the kinds of risks to avoid.

We are very fortunate here in Wales to have a cyber sector that employs over 3000 people. As one of the fastest growing technology sectors, Wales is acknowledged for its industry expertise and is home to a number major international cyber security organisations. Working with industry recognised partners such as the National Cyber Security Centre we are keen to build a talent pipeline, delivering a range of training and rewarding career opportunities.

This action plan outlines many achievements to date, from the increased usage of the 360 safe Cymru self-review tool, to the unparalleled suite of bilingual educational resources available on Hwb to learners, practitioners and professionals, families and governors. We have worked with a number of partners such as the National Crime Agency, the NSPCC and SWGfL to provide these excellent resources which tackle a breadth of online issues and to provide a rich range of sources of information and support. We have also relaunched the dedicated area on Hwb - Keeping safe online - which has been designed to support the digital resilience of children and young people, their families, practitioners and professionals and the wider school community.

Last year we published the first annual update to our Online safety action plan for children and young people in Wales. The 2019 action plan provided an update on the work undertaken and also saw the addition of 15 new actions.

This year, the action plan has been further expanded to reflect the important role cyber resilience and data security has in ensuring our children and young people are safe and secure online. Adding 26 new actions in 2020, the plan now outlines 71 workstreams being undertaken to drive this important area of work.

Enhancing digital resilience in education: An action plan to protect children and young people online continues to provide a focus for our work in online safety and supports our mission to increase the digital resilience of our young people.
Enhancing digital resilience in education: An action plan to protect children and young people online

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Written Statement: Enhancing digital resilience in education: An action plan to protect children and young people online

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This year we have all faced significant challenges brought about by the global outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19). Now, more than ever before, we are relying on technology to stay connected. With this increased use of technology in our daily lives, there are undoubtedly greater risks presented.

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How to take Meeting notes or Minutes in Microsoft Teams

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Share your Microsoft Stream videos with others by using the following methods:

Share via email

Share by sending the link

Share at a specific time

Share directly on Yammer

You can also embed your video on other internal company websites. Learn more about embedding videos.

1. In Stream, select the Share icon from either the video page or when finding videos through search or browse.

2. On the Share tab, copy the link URL to share the video in a message to your coworkers. You can also share the link from the address bar of the video page directly.

1. On the Share page, select the Email tab and add the list of users or groups that you would like to share with, or type in an email address from your company.

2. Select Send and close and an email will be sent to those people.

To share a video at a particular time, select the Start at check box and set the time that you would like to share the video at. The time will pre-populate based on when you select the Share icon .

You can play the video or seek to find the desired point and then select the Share icon . Alternatively, set the time by typing in the box using MM:SS or HHH:MM:SS format. You can then share the link URL with your colleagues.

Select Yammer share on the Share tab. This will open a Yammer share page where you can share the video with your colleagues on Yammer and within Yammer groups. Users can then watch the video directly in Yammer.

To learn more about inline playback in Yammer, see Using Microsoft Stream in Yammer.

Permissions on your video

Only people authorized to see a video will be able to view it. By default, when you upload a video, the permissions are set for the video to be visible to the whole company. If you want to specify permissions to the specific users/groups, you can customize the video permissions. You can do that during upload or at some later time by editing the video permissions.

To choose specific groups/channels, or users, go to the Permissions tab and select who can view the video. To view the video, they must be signed in to Microsoft Stream. You can also make the video private.

External sharing

Microsoft Stream doesn't yet support external sharing scenarios for guests or people outside your organization. We know these features are highly needed and we are working on plans for how to build these features. You can add your votes and comments to these ideas on the Microsoft Stream ideas forum:

See also

Inviting coworkers to use Microsoft Stream How Stream works with various products

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This article describes some of the limits, specifications, and other requirements that apply to Teams.

Teams and channels

¹ Any directory object in Azure Active Directory counts towards this limit. Global admins are exempt from this limit, as are apps calling Microsoft Graph using application permissions.

² This limit includes archived teams. To go beyond the maximum limit, you must contact Microsoft support.

³ Deleted channels can be restored within 30 days. During these 30 days, a deleted channel continues to be counted towards the 200 channel or 30 private channel per team limit. After 30 days, a deleted channel and its content are permanently deleted and the channel no longer counts towards the per team limit.

⁴ 28 KB is an approximate limit because it includes the message itself (text, image links, etc.), @-mentions, number of connectors, and reactions.

Messaging

Chat

Users who participate in conversations that are part of the chat list in Teams must have an Exchange Online (cloud-based) mailbox for an admin to search chat conversations. That's because conversations that are part of the chat list are stored in the cloud-based mailboxes of the chat participants. If a chat participant doesn't have an Exchange Online mailbox, the admin won't be able to search or place a hold on chat conversations. For example, in an Exchange hybrid deployment, users with on-premises mailboxes might be able to participate in conversations that are part of the chat list in Teams. However, in this case, content from these conversations isn't searchable and can't be placed on hold because the users don't have cloud-based mailboxes. (For more, see How Exchange and Microsoft Teams interact.)

Teams chat works on a Microsoft Exchange backend, so Exchange messaging limits apply to the chat function within Teams.

¹ If you have more than 20 people in a chat, the following chat features are turned off: Outlook automatic replies and Teams status messages; typing indicator; video and audio calling; sharing; read receipts. The "Set Delivery Options" button (!) is also removed when private group chats contain more than 20 members.

² If the number of attachments exceeds this limit, you'll see an error message.

³ 28 KB is an approximate limit because it includes the message itself (text, image links, etc.), @-mentions, and reactions.

Emailing a channel

If users want to send an email to a channel in Teams, they use the channel email address. When an email is part of a channel, anyone can reply to it to start a conversation. Here are some of the applicable limits for sending email to a channel.

¹ If the message exceeds this limit, a preview message is generated and the user is asked to download and view the original email from the link provided.

² If the number of attachments or images exceeds this limit, you'll see an error message.

For more information, see Exchange Online limits.

Note

Message size, file attachments, and inline images limits are the same across all Microsoft 365 and Office 365 licenses. Emailing a channel is not available in Teams for Office GCC/GCCH/DOD organizations.

Channel names

Channel names can't contain the following characters or words.

Characters in these ranges

0 to 1F
80 to 9F

Words

forms, CON, CONIN$, CONOUT$, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1 to COM9, LPT1 to LPT9, desktop.ini, _vti_

Channel names also can't start with an underscore (_) or period (.), or end with a period (.).

Meetings and calls

Important
Microsoft 365 live event limit increases
To help support our customers, through January 1, 2021, we will extend temporary limit increases for live events hosted in Teams, Stream, and Yammer, including:

Up to 20,000 attendees per event

Up to 50 simultaneous events per Teams tenant

Up to 16 hours per broadcast

Additionally, live events with up to 100,000 attendees can be planned through the Microsoft 365 assistance program. The team will assess each request and work with you to determine options that may be available. Learn more. After January 1, 2021, customers who need these limit increases will be required to purchase the Advanced Communications add-on.

Number of people in a meeting (can chat and call in)

300

Number of people in a video or audio call from chat

20

Max PowerPoint File Size

2GB

Teams keeps meeting recordings that don't get uploaded to Microsoft Stream, available for local download

20 days

Note

The change from using Microsoft Stream to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint for meeting recordings will be a phased approach. At launch you'll be able to opt-in to this experience, in November you'll have to opt-out if you want to continue using Stream, and some time in early 2021 we'll require all customers to use OneDrive for Business and SharePoint for new meeting recordings.

Meeting expiration

Meeting type

Meeting expires after this much time

Each time you start or update a meeting, expiration extends by this much time

Note

Microsoft Teams meetings have a time limit of 24 hours.

Teams live events

Audience size

10,000 attendees

Duration of event

4 hours

Concurrent live events running in a Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organization ¹

15

¹ You can schedule as many live events as you want, but you can only run 15 at a time. As soon as the producer joins a live event, it's considered to be running. The producer who attempts to join the 16th live event gets an error.

For more information about live events and a comparison of Teams live events to Skype Meeting Broadcast, go to Teams live events and Skype Meeting Broadcast.

Important
Microsoft 365 live event limit increases
To help customers meet rapidly changing communication needs, we will temporarily raise default limits until January 1, 2021, for live events hosted in Teams, Stream, and Yammer.

Attendee limit: events can support up to 20,000 attendees

Concurrent events: 50 events can be hosted simultaneously across a tenant

Event duration: event length has been increased to 16 hours per broadcast

Additionally, live events with up to 100,000 attendees can be planned through the Microsoft live events assistance program. Learn more. After January 1, 2021, customers who need these limit increases will be required to purchase the Advanced Communications add-on.

Presence in Outlook

Teams presence in Outlook is supported on the Outlook 2013 desktop app and later. To learn more about presence in Teams, see User presence in Teams.

Storage

Each team in Microsoft Teams has a team site in SharePoint Online, and each channel in a team gets a folder within the default team site document library. Files shared within a conversation are automatically added to the document library, and permissions and file security options set in SharePoint are automatically reflected within Teams.

If you don't have SharePoint Online enabled in your tenant, Microsoft Teams users cannot always share files in teams. Users in private chat also cannot share files because OneDrive for Business (which is tied to the SharePoint license) is required for that functionality.

By storing the files in the SharePoint Online document library and OneDrive for Business, all compliance rules configured at the tenant level will be followed. (For more, see How SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business interact with Microsoft Teams.)

Because Teams runs on a SharePoint Online backend for file sharing, SharePoint limitations apply to the Files section within a Team. Here are the applicable storage limits for SharePoint Online.

Feature

Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Office 365 Enterprise E1

Office 365 Enterprise E3

Office 365 Enterprise E5

Office 365 Enterprise F1

Storage

1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license purchased

1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license purchased

1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license purchased

1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license purchased

1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license purchased

1 TB per organization

Storage for Teams Files

Up to 25 TB per site collection or group

Up to 25 TB per site collection or group

Up to 25 TB per site collection or group

Up to 25 TB per site collection or group

Up to 25 TB per site collection or group

Up to 25 TB per site collection or group

Channels are backed by folders within the SharePoint Online site collection created for the team, so file tabs within Channels share the storage limits of the team they belong to.

For more information, see SharePoint Online limits.

Class teams

Microsoft Teams for Education provides templates designed for unique education scenarios, such as classroom teaching. More information about team types, including class teams, is available in Choose a team type to collaborate in Microsoft Teams.

A class team is a template type with additional apps included, and with limits separate to the number of team members.

Limits for class teams are listed in the following table:

Number of members in a team

See the Teams and channels section of this article

Number of members to use Assignments in a class team

200

Number of members to use a OneNote Class Notebook in a class team

200

A class team can support more than 200 members. However, if you plan to use either the Assignments app or Class Notebook app within your team, you will need to keep the number of members below the maximum limits above.

Teams uses these contacts:

Contacts in your organization's Active Directory

Contacts added to the user's Outlook default folder

Teams users can communicate with anyone in your organization's Active Directory and can add anyone in your organization's Active Directory as a contact and to their contact lists by going to Chat > Contacts or Calls > Contacts.

Teams users can also add a person who isn't in your organization's Active Directory as a contact by going to Calls > Contacts.

Browsers

Teams fully supports the following Internet browsers, with noted exceptions for calling and meetings. This table applies to operating systems running on desktop computers.

Internet Explorer 11

Not supported

Meetings are supported only if the meeting includes PSTN coordinates. To attend a meeting on IE11 without PSTN coordinates, users must download the Teams desktop client.

Video: Not supported

Sharing: Incoming sharing only (no outgoing)

Microsoft 365 apps and services will not support Internet Explorer 11 starting August 17, 2021 (Microsoft Teams will not support Internet Explorer 11 earlier, starting November 30, 2020). Learn more. Please note that Internet Explorer 11 will remain a supported browser. Internet Explorer 11 is a component of the Windows operating system and follows the Lifecycle Policy for the product on which it is installed.

Microsoft Edge, RS2 or later

Fully supported, except no outgoing sharing ⁴

Fully supported, except no outgoing sharing

Google Chrome, the latest version plus two previous versions

Fully supported

Fully supported

Sharing is supported without any plug-ins or extensions on Chrome version 72 or later.

Safari 13+

1:1 calls not supported. Group calls supported with full audio support.

Video: Incoming only

Sharing: Incoming sharing only (no outgoing)

Meetings are supported with full audio support.

Video: Incoming only

Sharing: Incoming sharing only (no outgoing)

Firefox, the latest version plus two previous versions

Not supported

Meetings are supported only if the meeting includes PSTN coordinates. To attend a meeting on Firefox without PSTN coordinates, users must download the Teams desktop client.

Video: Not supported

Sharing: Incoming sharing only (no outgoing)

Safari versions before 13

Not supported

Meetings are supported only if the meeting includes PSTN coordinates. To attend a meeting on Safari without PSTN coordinates, users must download the Teams desktop client.

Video: Not supported

Sharing: Incoming sharing only (no outgoing)

Safari is enabled on versions higher than 11.1 in preview. While in preview, there are known issues with Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention.

¹ To give and take control of shared content during sharing, both parties must be using the Teams desktop client. Control isn't supported when either party is running Teams in a browser. This is due to a technical limitation that we're planning to fix.

² Blur my background isn't available when you run Teams in a browser. This feature is only available in the Teams desktop client.

³ Teams meetings on browsers are limited to a single incoming video feed of active speaker.

⁴ Edge RS2 or later doesn't support sending real-time audio and video traffic through HTTP proxies.

Note

As long as an operating system can run the supported browser, Teams is supported on desktop computers. For example, running Firefox on the Linux operating system is an option for using Teams.

For mobile operating systems, we recommend that you run the Teams app, available from the Android and iOS stores. Running Teams in a mobile operating system is supported, but many features are unavailable.

Operating systems

For information about operating system requirements, see Get clients for Microsoft Teams.

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With Microsoft Forms, you can create an instant, real time poll in seconds within your Microsoft Teams app.

1. Go to the Teams channel or chat window in which you want to include a quick poll. At the bottom of your Teams app, click Forms.

Note: If you don't see the Forms icon, click Messaging extensions , and then select Forms.

2. Add your question and options, and then click Next.

3. Preview your poll, and then click Edit if you want to make changes, or click Send if you're ready to post it.

As people in your group take the poll, you'll see real time results in your group conversation.

Got feedback on Microsoft Forms?

We'd love to hear from you! Please visit the Microsoft Forms UserVoice site to provide suggestions and vote on ideas others have already submitted.

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How do I get started with a whiteboard in a Teams meeting?

You can share a whiteboard to make it available to all participants in a Teams meeting. That same whiteboard is simultaneously available in the Whiteboard applications on Windows 10, iOS, and on the web.

1. After joining a Teams meeting, click the Share icon in the share tray of that meeting.

2. In the Whiteboard section, select Microsoft Whiteboard.

How do you use the whiteboard in a Teams meeting?

As soon as the Whiteboard canvas has been started, Teams meeting attendees can ink and type collaboratively. To add ink, click the Pen icon, select a color, and then begin to draw, sketch, or write on the board. To add text, click the Note or Text icons, and then begin to type. These objects can be moved around on the canvas.

For richer functionality, Teams meeting attendees can open the whiteboard they're editing in the full-featured Microsoft Whiteboard apps for Windows 10 or iOS to add other content types and use additional features. These changes will appear in the whiteboard being edited in the Teams meeting.

If a Teams meeting is recorded, will it include Whiteboard as part of the recording?

If you share a whiteboard during a Teams meeting that is being recorded, it will not be part of the recording. We will provide information to customers when this becomes available.

Can I access and continue working on a whiteboard after a Teams meeting ends?

After a Teams meeting, its whiteboard will be available to all participants from the Teams meeting chat, in a tab labeled Whiteboard. The whiteboard will also be available in the Board Gallery in the Microsoft Whiteboard apps for Windows 10 and iOS, so that meeting attendees can continue collaborating on a whiteboard even after a meeting has ended.

Can anyone start or ink on a whiteboard in a Teams meeting?

Teams meeting attendees within the same Microsoft 365 tenant can collaborate on a whiteboard. Anonymous, federated, or external users are not yet supported. We will provide information to customers when this becomes available.

Can I get Whiteboard in Teams meetings on my Surface Hub?

When joining a Teams meeting, sign in to Whiteboard or Surface Hub, and then click the Whiteboard icon in the meeting controls to share the whiteboard.

Note: If you add any content to Whiteboard without being signed in and then use the Whiteboard icon in Teams to try and share it, a new empty board will be created and shared with the meeting. (The prior whiteboard will still be synced to your list of whiteboards.)

Will the Whiteboard in Teams integration be available for Microsoft Teams Rooms?

Whiteboard in Teams meetings is available for Microsoft Teams Rooms. Inking is available if the room system is equipped with a touch display. In Teams Rooms with a standard display, Whiteboard will be in View-Only mode.

Note: Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams Rooms currently shows an "Open in App" button that will not open the application. It will be removed in the future.

When will Whiteboard be available for One-on-One Teams calls?

We will provide additional information to customers when this becomes available. Currently, Whiteboard in Teams is available only for calls with three or more participants.

How can I enable Microsoft Whiteboard in Teams meetings for my organization?

Whiteboard is automatically enabled for applicable Microsoft 365 tenants and customers are able to use Whiteboard in Teams meetings with the Microsoft Teams clients on Windows 10, Mac, iOS, Android, and on the web.

If Whiteboard is not available for you in Teams, contact your organization's Microsoft 365 administrator. See Enable Microsoft Whiteboard for your organization for detailed instructions for administrators.

How do I get started with a whiteboard in a Teams meeting on mobile?

You can share a whiteboard to make it available to all participants in a Teams meeting. That same whiteboard is simultaneously available in the Whiteboard applications on Windows 10, iOS, and on the web.

1. After joining a Teams meeting from your phone or tablet, select More options .

2. Select Share Whiteboard from the list of options.

How do you use the whiteboard in a Teams meeting on mobile?

As soon as the Whiteboard canvas has been started, Teams meeting attendees can ink and type collaboratively. To add ink, tap the Pen icon, select a color, and then begin to draw, sketch, or write on the board. To add text, tap the Note or Text icons, and then begin to type. These objects can be moved around on the canvas.

For richer functionality, Teams meeting attendees can open the whiteboard they're editing in the full-featured Microsoft Whiteboard apps for Windows 10 or iOS to add other content types and use additional features. These changes will appear in the whiteboard being edited in the Teams meeting.

How do I stop sharing a whiteboard in a Teams meeting on mobile?

There are two ways to stop sharing a whiteboard in a mobile Teams meeting.

From the main meeting window, tap Stop on the Whiteboard banner, or from More options , tap Stop sharing Whiteboard.

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If you're organizing a meeting with multiple attendees, you may want to assign roles to each participant to determine who can do what in the meeting.

There are three roles to choose from: co-organizer, presenter and attendee. Co-organizers and presenters share most organizer permissions, while attendees are more controlled.

Below are the specific capabilities of each role:

Capability

Organizer

Co-organizer

Presenter

Attendee

Manage breakout rooms

Change meeting options

*Some apps may limit what certain roles can do.

Change meeting roles

Before a meeting

You'll need to send out the meeting invite before you can assign roles.

Once you've done that, go to Calendar , double-click the meeting you just created, and select Meeting options.

This will bring you to a web page, where you'll see a few choices under Who can present?

Who can present?

What happens

Everyone

Anyone who has access to the meeting link will join the meeting as a presenter.

People in my organization

Only people in your org will be presenters. External participants will join as attendees.

Specific people

Only people you choose from the list of invitees will be presenters. Everyone else will join as attendees.

Only me

Only the organizer will be a presenter. All other participants will join as attendees.

A couple of things to keep in mind:

You'll need to send your meeting invite directly to anyone you want to select as a presenter.

Co-organizers can't make changes to a meeting before it starts.

The role of the meeting organizer can't be changed.

Note: The ability to select specific presenters isn't yet available for channel meetings.

During a meeting

There are two ways for you or a co-organizer to change someone's role while a meeting is in progress:

Select Show participants in the meeting controls to see a list of all the people in the meeting.

Hover over the name of the person whose role you want to change and select More options. From there, select Make a presenter or Make an attendee.

Notes:

If the meeting is recurring, role assignments made in this way will only apply to the current meeting. For future occurrences, participants will keep the role assigned to them on the Meeting options page.

If someone exits the meeting and then rejoins it later, they'll rejoin with the last role they were assigned.

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You can join a Teams meeting anytime, from any device, whether or not you have a Teams account. If you don't have an account, follow these steps to join as a guest.

Note: Some meetings don't allow people to join as guests.

1. Go to the meeting invite and select Join Microsoft Teams Meeting.

2. That'll open a web page, where you'll see two choices: Download the Windows app and Join on the web instead. If you join on the web, you can use either Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. Your browser may ask if it's okay for Teams to use your mic and camera. Be sure to allow it so you'll be seen and heard in your meeting.

3. Enter your name and choose your audio and video settings. If the meeting room (or another device that's connected to the meeting) is nearby, choose Audio off to avoid disrupting. Select Phone audio if you want to listen to the meeting on your mobile phone.

4. When you're ready, hit Join now.

5. This will bring you into the meeting lobby. We'll notify the meeting organizer that you're there, and someone in the meeting can then admit you.

Notes:

If no one admits you to the meeting within 15 minutes, you'll be removed from the lobby. If that happens, you can try joining again.

Some features of Teams meetings aren't available to guests.

Even if you don't have a Teams account, you can still join a Teams meeting on the mobile app. Here's how:

1. In the meeting invite, select Join Microsoft Teams Meeting.

2. If you don't already have the Teams mobile app, you'll be taken to your app store to download it.

3. Download the app and open it right from the app store page.

Teams will ask if it's okay to use your mic. Be sure to allow it so others in the meeting will be able to hear you.

4. Next, you'll be given two options for joining your meeting: Join as a guest or Sign in and join. Choose Join as a guest.

5. Type your name and tap Join meeting.

6. Once you're in the meeting, you can turn your video or mic on or off by tapping on the center of your screen to show the meeting controls. Tap again to hide them.

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This article describes some of the limits, specifications, and other requirements that apply to Teams.

Teams and channels

Number of teams a user can create

Subject to a 250 object limit¹

Number of teams a user can be a member of

1,000²

Number of owners per team

100

Number of org-wide teams allowed in a tenant

5²

Number of members in an org-wide team

10,000

Number of teams a global admin can create

500,000

Number of teams a Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organization can have

500,000³

Number of members in a Private channel

250

Maximum size of distribution list, security group or Microsoft 365 group that can be imported in to a team

3,500

¹ Any directory object in Azure Active Directory counts towards this limit. Global admins are exempt from this limit, as are apps calling Microsoft Graph using application permissions.

² This limit includes archived teams.

³ To further increase the number of teams, you must contact Microsoft support and request further increase to the number of Azure Active Directory objects in your tenant. Increase is only made for real-life production scenarios.

⁴ Deleted channels can be restored within 30 days. During these 30 days, a deleted channel continues to be counted towards the 200 channel or 30 private channel per team limit. After 30 days, a deleted channel and its content are permanently deleted and the channel no longer counts towards the per team limit.

⁵ 28 KB is an approximate limit because it includes the message itself (text, image links, etc.), @-mentions, number of connectors, and reactions.

⁶ Shared channels members from outside the team count toward this limit. Further note that teams/channel mentions are blocked in teams with over 10,000 members.

The following table describes the maximum number of channels and members.

The following limitations also apply:

Only Azure AD work or school accounts are supported for external participants.

Shared channels support tabs except for Stream, Planner, and Forms.

Bots, connectors, and message extensions are not supported.

Org-wide teams are not supported to be added as members of a shared channel.

When you create a team from an existing team, any shared channels in the existing team won't be copied over.

Notifications from shared channels are not included in missed activity emails.

Shared channels are not supported in class teams.

Messaging

Chat

Users who participate in conversations that are part of the chat list in Teams must have an Exchange Online (cloud-based) mailbox for an admin to search chat conversations. That's because conversations that are part of the chat list are stored in the cloud-based mailboxes of the chat participants. If a chat participant doesn't have an Exchange Online mailbox, the admin won't be able to search or place a hold on chat conversations. For example, in an Exchange hybrid deployment, users with on-premises mailboxes might be able to participate in conversations that are part of the chat list in Teams. However, in this case, content from these conversations isn't searchable and can't be placed on hold because the users don't have cloud-based mailboxes. (For more, see How Exchange and Microsoft Teams interact.)

¹ If you have more than 20 people in a chat, the following chat features are turned off: Outlook automatic replies and Teams status messages; typing indicator; video and audio calling; sharing; read receipts. The "Set Delivery Options" button (!) is also removed when private group chats contain more than 20 members.

² Only 200 members at a time can be added to a group chat. See this article for more information.

³ If the number of attachments exceeds this limit, you'll see an error message.

⁴ 28 KB is an approximate limit because it includes the message itself (text, image links, etc.), @-mentions, and reactions.

Emailing a channel

If users want to send an email to a channel in Teams, they use the channel email address. When an email is part of a channel, anyone can reply to it to start a conversation. Here are some of the applicable limits for sending email to a channel.

Note

There is a throttling limit on how many emails you can send to a channel. The limit is six emails per ten seconds per channel per user and eight emails per ten seconds per tenant per user. ¹ If the message exceeds this limit, a preview message is generated and the user is asked to download and view the original email from the link provided.

² If the number of attachments or images exceeds this limit, you'll see an error message.

For more information, see Exchange Online limits.

Note

Message size, file attachments, and inline images limits are the same across all Microsoft 365 and Office 365 licenses. Emailing a channel is not available in Teams for Office GCC/GCCH/DOD organizations.

Channel names

Channel names can't contain the following characters or words:

Characters in these ranges

0 to 1F
80 to 9F

Words

forms, CON, CONIN$, CONOUT$, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1 to COM9, LPT1 to LPT9, desktop.ini, _vti_

Channel names also can't start with an underscore (_) or period (.), or end with a period (.).

Meetings and calls

Number of people in a meeting (can chat and call in)

1000, includes GCC, GCCH, and DoD, but not A1 (300).

Number of people in a video or audio call from chat

20

Max PowerPoint File Size

2 GB

Teams keeps meeting recordings that don't get uploaded to Microsoft Stream, available for local download

20 days

Meeting recording maximum length

4 hours or 1.5 GB. When this limit is reached, the recording will end and automatically restart.

For more information, see Meetings, webinars, and live events.

Note

Breakout rooms can only be created in meetings that have fewer than 300 attendees. In addition, creating breakout rooms in a meeting automatically limits the number of meeting attendees to 300. Advise your end-users to not initiate breakout rooms in meetings where they expect more than 300 participants. For more information on large Team meetings, share the guidance Best practices for a large Teams meeting with your end-users.

Meeting expiration

Note

A meeting URL will never stop working. The expiry only relates to any PSTN dial-in numbers, CVI coordinates, and/or underlying meeting policies and settings.

Meeting type

Meeting expires after this much time

Each time you start or update a meeting, expiration extends by this much time

Note

Microsoft Teams meetings have a time limit of 30 hours.

Live Events

Live events are structured meetings that enable your organization to schedule and produce events that stream to large online audiences-up to 20,000 people. With live events, the audience interaction is a managed Q&A experience.

Duration of event

4 hours

Concurrent Live Events running in a Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organization ²

15

¹ The usual 10,000 is increased to 20,000 through June 30, 2023. You can schedule even greater numbers with live events in Yammer and/or Microsoft Stream. For more information, see Live events across Microsoft 365. Note that events over 20,000 attendees require the Live Events Assistance Program.

² You can schedule as many Live Events as you want, but you can only run 15 at a time. As soon as the producer joins a live event, it's considered to be running. The producer who attempts to join the 16th live event gets an error.

For more information about live events, go to Teams live events. See also Schedule a Teams live event.

Important
Microsoft 365 live event limit increases To continue supporting our customers' needs, we will extend temporary limit increases for live events through June 30, 2023, including:

Event support for up to 20,000 attendees

50 events can be hosted simultaneously across a tenant

Event duration of 16 hours per broadcast

Additionally, Live Events with up to 100,000 attendees can be planned through the Microsoft 365 assistance program. The team will assess each request and work with you to determine options that may be available. Learn more.

Presence in Outlook

Teams presence in Outlook is supported on the Outlook 2013 desktop app and later. To learn more about presence in Teams, see User presence in Teams.

Storage

Each team in Microsoft Teams has a team site in SharePoint Online, and each channel in a team gets a folder within the default team site document library. Files shared within a conversation are automatically added to the document library, and permissions and file security options set in SharePoint are automatically reflected within Teams.

Note

Each private channel has its own SharePoint site (previously called "site collection").

If you don't have SharePoint Online enabled in your tenant, Microsoft Teams users cannot always share files in teams. Users in private chat also cannot share files because OneDrive for Business (which is tied to the SharePoint license) is required for that functionality.

By storing the files in the SharePoint Online document library and OneDrive for Business, all compliance rules configured at the tenant level will be followed. (For more, see How SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business interact with Microsoft Teams.)

Because Teams runs on a SharePoint Online backend for file sharing, SharePoint limitations apply to the Files section within a Team. Here are the applicable storage limits for SharePoint Online.

Feature

Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Office 365 Enterprise E1

Office 365 Enterprise E3

Office 365 Enterprise E5

Office 365 Enterprise F1

Storage

1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license purchased

1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license purchased

1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license purchased

1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license purchased

1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license purchased

1 TB per organization

Storage for Teams Files

Up to 25 TB per site or group

Up to 25 TB per site or group

Up to 25 TB per site or group

Up to 25 TB per site or group

Up to 25 TB per site or group

Up to 25 TB per site or group

Channels are backed by folders within the SharePoint Online site (previously called "site collection") created for the team, so file tabs within Channels share the storage limits of the team they belong to.

For more information, see SharePoint Online limits.

Class teams

Microsoft Teams for Education provides templates designed for unique education scenarios, such as classroom teaching. More information about team types, including class teams, is available in Choose a team type to collaborate in Microsoft Teams.

A class team is a template type with additional apps included, and with limits separate to the number of team members.

Limits for class teams are listed in the following table:

Number of members in a team

See the Teams and channels section of this article

Number of members to use Assignments in a class team

300

Number of members to use a OneNote Class Notebook in a class team

300

A class team can support more than 300 members. However, if you plan to use either the Assignments app or Class Notebook app within your team, you will need to keep the number of members below the maximum limits above.

Number of tags per team

100

Number of suggested default tags per team

25

Number of team members assigned to a tag

200

Number of tags assigned to a user per team

25

Teams uses these contacts:

Contacts in your organization's Active Directory

Contacts added to the user's Outlook default folder

Teams users can communicate with anyone in your organization's Active Directory and can add anyone in your organization's Active Directory as a contact and to their contact lists by going to Chat > Contacts or Calls > Contacts.

Teams users can also add a person who isn't in your organization's Active Directory as a contact by going to Calls > Contacts.

Browsers

Teams fully supports the following Internet browsers, with noted exceptions for calling and meetings. This table applies to operating systems running on desktop computers.

Browser

Calling - audio, video, and sharing

Meetings - audio, video, and sharing¹ ²

Internet Explorer 11

Not supported

Meetings are supported only if the meeting includes PSTN coordinates. To attend a meeting on IE11 without PSTN coordinates, users must download the Teams desktop client.

Video: Not supported

Sharing: Incoming sharing only (no outgoing)

Microsoft 365 apps and services will not support Internet Explorer 11 starting August 17, 2021 (Microsoft Teams will not support Internet Explorer 11 earlier, starting November 30, 2020). Learn more. Please note that Internet Explorer 11 will remain a supported browser. Internet Explorer 11 is a component of the Windows operating system and follows the Lifecycle Policy for the product on which it is installed.

Microsoft Edge, RS2 or later

Fully supported, except no outgoing sharing ³

Fully supported, except no outgoing sharing

Google Chrome, the latest version plus two previous versions

Fully supported

Fully supported

Sharing is supported without any plug-ins or extensions on Chrome version 72 or later.

Safari 14+

1:1 calls not supported. Group calls fully supported.

Video: Fully supported

Sharing: Fully supported

Meetings: Fully supported

Video: Fully supported

Sharing: Fully supported

Safari 13.1+

1:1 calls not supported. Group calls supported with full audio support.

Video: Incoming only

Sharing: Fully supported

Meetings are supported with full audio support.

Video: Incoming only

Sharing: Fully supported

Firefox, the latest version plus two previous versions

Not supported

Meetings are supported only if the meeting includes PSTN coordinates. To attend a meeting on Firefox without PSTN coordinates, users must download the Teams desktop client.

Video: Not supported

Sharing: Incoming sharing only (no outgoing)

Note that users are required to have the OpenH264 plugin in Firefox for full support. Browsers without this plugin may see disruptions in the meeting, including in screen sharing activity. Learn more at Mozilla Firefox Support.

Safari versions before 13

Not supported

Meetings are supported only if the meeting includes PSTN coordinates. To attend a meeting on Safari without PSTN coordinates, users must download the Teams desktop client.

Video: Not supported

Sharing: Incoming sharing only (no outgoing)

Safari is enabled on versions higher than 11.1 in preview. While in preview, there are known issues with Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention.

¹ To give and take control of shared content during sharing, both parties must be using the Teams desktop client. Control isn't supported when either party is running Teams in a browser. This is due to a technical limitation that we're planning to fix.

² Teams meetings on browsers are limited to a single stream; either incoming video feed of the current speaker or screen sharing.

³ Edge RS2 or later doesn't support sending real-time audio and video traffic through HTTP proxies.

Note

Running Teams in a browser is supported on PCs and Macs that meet the minimum Hardware requirements for Microsoft Teams. For example, running Firefox on the Linux operating system is an option for using Teams.

On mobile devices we recommend that you use the Teams app. The Teams app is available from the Android and iOS stores.

Operating systems

For information about operating system requirements, see Get clients for Microsoft Teams.

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ith offices and schools around the world temporarily shut amid the coronavirus crisis, the video platform Zoom has seen overnight success. But growing concerns over security across the platform have many consumers wondering about tech alternatives.

Privacy-minded consumers should consider video chat options carefully, said Arvind Narayanan, an associate computer science professor at Princeton University who has been outspoken about the security concerns surrounding Zoom.

"There is a tradeoff between security and usability when picking a video-conferencing product," he said. "Companies and schools should consider supporting multiple software options, configuring them securely, and educating their users about the risks."

Among the most important criteria for evaluating a video conferencing platform is end-to-end encryption of calls and data protection policies, said Charles Ragland, security engineer at Digital Shadows, a San Francisco-based security provider. Companies should be in compliance with privacy frameworks like Europe's General Data Protection Regulation or California's Consumer Privacy Act, he continued, and should also tell users what data is being collected and what third parties can access that data.

Here are some of your video-conferencing options for staying connected while sheltering in place:

Zoom

The app is headquartered in San Jose, California, and was valued at $16bn when it went public in 2019. It quickly became the most popular option for meetings and other events moving online following shelter-in-place orders this year.

Pros: It's seamless to use - attendees can join by a publicly shared link from anywhere, and joining does not require downloading any software. It's a great option if you are not discussing anything private or secure - a virtual happy hour with friends, for example. The company has promised to fix issues with privacy and security, recently making default options more secure by requiring passwords to join meetings.

Cons: Zoom has had some glaring problems of privacy and security. "Zoom bombings", in which hackers enter chat rooms to drop racist language and violent threats, persist. The company had to fix a bug that would have allowed hackers to take over a Zoom user's Mac. It also had to change some of its policies after a Motherboard report found Zoom sends data from users of its iOS app to Facebook for advertising purposes.

The company also claimed its calls were encrypted, and then backtracked when it was proven wrong by a report in the Intercept. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado has requested responses from Zoom's CEO, Eric Yuan, on privacy concerns and the FTC is being called to investigate the company.

Skype

Released in 2003, Skype is one of the longest-standing options for video chatting. It was bought by Microsoft in 2011 and is a free option for one-on-one or group video chats.

Pros: Skype isfree, easy to use and widely known.

Cons: The maximum number of people who can join a Skype meeting is 50, making it a difficult option for larger organizations or big get-togethers.

Microsoft Teams

Schools in New York are transitioning from Zoom to Microsoft Teams, a work-from-home collaboration platform. The app has been gaining traction: Teams saw its daily active user count rise more than 37% during just one week last month, from 32 million to 44 million around the world.

Pros: The video platform allows for 250 people in a meeting or up to 10,000 viewers through its presentation feature. Users can easily share files and chat during meetings as well as screen-share. It is free and integrates with Skype.

Cons: The platform is built primarily for businesses, or "teams". People who want individual access can do so via Skype accounts, but it appears to require a download of Skype to join meetings - unlike Zoom, which lets users attend meetings through their web browsers.

FaceTime

The built-in video call option for Apple products is an often overlooked option for group video chats, but a strong one for a number of reasons.

Pros: Apple is known for its strong encryption practices, meaning the company cannot see what you share during a call. FaceTime is also free for Apple users and does not require the download of an app.

Cons: FaceTime is only available for users who have Apple devices, has a maximum of 32 users per call, and does not allow people to join by link, making it hard to spread the word about your online event in advance.

FaceTime is only available on Apple devices. Photograph: Sascha Steinbach/EPA

Signal

Signal is an encrypted messaging app widely considered to be the world's most secure - and it is increasingly going mainstream. It allows for large group chats, but not group video calls.

Pros: It's encrypted and free to download.

Cons: Signal does not allow for group video chats, but it is useful for one-on-one video chats that require strong security and encryption.

Starleaf

The Cambridge, England-based video conferencing provider Starleaf was founded in 2008 and has grown in popularity as it pitches itself as a more secure video-conferencing alternative to Zoom. Call volume on StarLeaf has grown more than 1,000% compared to February 2020, the company said by email.

Pros: Starleaf is based in the UK and subject to local data privacy laws there. It also allows the consumer to choose where their user data is stored. It is used by NHS trusts in the UK.

Cons: Rather than the individual consumer, it targets organizations with 500+ employees - a good option for your company but maybe not for happy hour with your friends. Starleaf hosts up to 20 people per meeting and has a maximum of 46 minutes per meeting under its free option. Its paid plans offer up to 100 participants; another 1,000 people can watch but not participate.

Jitsi Meet

This video-conferencing platform was founded in 2003 by a student in France, and it has gained popularity as a more secure alternative to Zoom.

Pros: Jitsi Meet is free; open-source, meaning outside parties can check its security; and encrypted.

Cons: It allows a maximum of 75 participants in a chat (and a "better experience" with 35 or fewer).

Houseparty

A series of now debunked reports claimed Houseparty had been breached - rumors the company is now claiming were part of a "paid commercial smear" by a rival.

Pros: This is perhaps the most fun video-conferencing app, with a number of games within the app, including trivia and drawing challenges.

Cons: It appears that when you start a "house party", anyone in your contacts can join, but it is possible to "lock" a room once the people you want to be there are in it. It also has questionable privacy policies and collects a "worrying amount" of information, according to one security researcher.

Google Hangouts

For those of us who use Gmail, Google Hangouts is a seamless option for video chats. Up to 150 people can participate in a chat, but only 25 people can participate in a video call at once.

Pros: It's free and accessible.

Cons: Use it with the knowledge that Google will have even more of your data than it already does. A hangout can be joined via Gmail, the Hangouts app or a Chrome extension but it requires a Gmail account.

BlueJeans

The California-based video conference platform BlueJeans is a good option for work teams and meetings that require a little more security than a free Zoom session.

Pros: Videos are encrypted by default. BlueJeans can be accessed via browser and does not require an account or the download of a new program.

Cons: It is not free - BlueJeans costs $9.99 for a basic plan that allows meetings up to 50 people and $13.99 for its "pro" product, which allows up to 75 people per meeting, among other features.

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Microsoft Teams is not a new product, but there's still quite a bit of confusion about what it is, and how it can improve workplace productivity. Some people think that it is just a chat app. Some think that it's just an upgraded version of Skype for Business. The truth is that Microsoft Teams is an extremely powerful application that can be used to enhance teamwork through enriched collaboration and communication. Unlike other Office productivity applications that have a legacy to preserve and millions of users to consider, Microsoft Teams is built from scratch with the modern workplace in mind. This also means that Microsoft Teams introduces a new work behavior, that many people - especially those that are used to email - might find difficult.

"Teams" in Microsoft Teams explained

How can you explain the "teams" part of Microsoft Teams in a way that your organization can quickly understand? When I describe teams in Microsoft Teams, I use an illustrative analogy that most people can relate to. For those of you who have Storyals Lite or Storyals Pro, you will see me explain this in the " Enhance teamwork " introduction video. For the rest of you, I'll share my description in this blog.

1) Think of a "team" as a house

In Microsoft Teams you work in different "teams". You can think of each team as a house where you work together with others. Everyone who is a member of the house will be included in everything that goes on in the house.

Even if you can "walk between different houses", it's a bit confusing and tiring. Similarly, in Microsoft Teams you don't want to create or be a member of too many teams. For organizations that don't have any governance in place, or for end-users that haven't received any guidance, the number of teams created can easily grow out of proportion. This is not good for end-user productivity. When you start using Microsoft Teams you should think through how various groups within your organization collaborate with one another. Think through how to create teams so that the collaboration will be as efficient as possible.

2) Think of a "Channel" as a room

When you first build your house it only has one room. In Microsoft Teams this corresponds to the "General" channel.

In this room, you can hear what everyone says -whether or not you are in the room at the point in time it is said. Everything is noted down. In Microsoft Teams this relates to "Posts". Conversations, announcements, replies, everything is visible in the "Posts" window. Everyone in the team sees everything in the channel posts.

You are not limited to just talking to each other in the room. You can use facial expressions and body language! In Microsoft Teams you do this using reactions, emoticons, GIFs, memes, stickers and much more. By being able to express yourself more freely in the digital workplace, it's easier for people to let their personalities shine through. You can create a more fun and inclusive culture, where the ones not physically located in the same place can still feel involved and as part of the team.

As you start working on more projects and more initiatives, different constellations of people in your house will break out and start working in different rooms. In Microsoft Teams a new room corresponds to a new "Channel". As of November 2019, you can select if a channel should be "Standard" or "Private". You can think of a Private channel as an invisible room that only selected people in your house can see and have the key to enter.

3) Think of the "Activity Feed" as the hallway

In the middle of the house you have a hallway. You can stand in the hallway, open the doors to the rooms you are most interested in, and hear all the conversations going on in the various rooms - without leaving the hallway!

In Microsoft Teams, the hallway corresponds to the "Activity Feed." Opening the door to a room corresponds to turning on "Channel notifications".

You don't have to worry about missing out on anything that is being said in the rooms with closed doors. At any time, you can walk into the room and get up to speed on everything that has happened in the room. In Microsoft Teams, this corresponds to going to a channel and seeing what's been posted in the "Posts" window. Also, if someone in a room wants your attention - even if the door is closed, they can just get your attention using a megaphone. In Microsoft Teams, this relates to an @mention. Whenever someone @mentions you, you will see it in your "Activity feed" whether you have turned on channel notifications or not.

4) Think of "Chat" as private conversations by the coffee machine

Sometimes you might want to have a private conversation with one, or a few people in your house. A conversation that is not heard by everyone else. In Teams you do this using "Chat" or "Calls". Whatever you write or say here is only for the ones present. If you frequently have private conversations with a group of people, you can create a group chat.

Private conversations are great for social talk or for things that aren't of interest to the others in the room. Such as, "I'm running late", or " shall we meet up for lunch?"

But it's important that you don't use private chats for business-related discussions that could be of interest to others in the channel. Those discussions should be in the channel posts - where they are visible to others.

5) Think of "Tabs" as posters pinned on the wall

In your various rooms, you can pin things on the walls. This helps the ones in your room focus on what's most important and it helps them find what they need. In Microsoft Teams this corresponds to "Tabs". Here you can pin things of importance - such as Excel spreadsheets, shared notes and other apps.

Succeeding with Microsoft Teams

Understanding how Microsoft Teams works is an important step in order to succeed with your Microsoft Teams adoption. But it's important to acknowledge that Teams drastically changes the way people work, and changing behavior is difficult. I recommend you read our previous blog post or see the video, How to succeed with Microsoft Teams to get more insights, and also check out our other blogs on Teams. Good luck with your adoption and feel free to reach out to us if you need help! Or click on the "Book a demo" button below if you are interested to see Storyals in action!

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