Microsoft Teams

What is Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform where people including those outside Princeton University, can actively connect and collaborate in real time to get things done. It includes persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage (including collaboration on files), and integrations with other Office365 applications.

What Microsoft Teams Offers at Princeton

Teams offers your group/project the tools needed to be successful and stay organized.

A new Office365 group
A document library to collaborate and store team files
A shared mailbox and calendar
A group OneNote and group planner
Ability to create Channels for tracking different topics of conversation
Online Meetings with ability to record meetings
Audio conferencing
Screen sharing
Integrations with other Office365 applications

Collaboration with Guests

Microsoft Teams can also be used to collaborate with guests outside the University. Please see the Guest Access in Microsoft Teams page.

How to Request a Microsoft Teams Site

Request a new Microsoft Teams or SharePoint Online site here.

Compare Microsoft Teams to SharePoint

Teams	SharePoint

Audio, Video and Chat-based workspace	Site and content management in an Intranet portal
Designed for Peer-to-peer collaboration	Can be built to support operations based on Organizational structure
Enables group self-governance	Offers forms, workflows, calendars and approval routing
Multiple channels promote focused discussion and content sharing	Enables management of lists and views

Great for:	Great for:
Project Groups	Cross organization communication, content and activities
Ad-hoc teams	Departmental news and information
Area of expertise groups	Employee directory
Boards, committees etc.	Departmental documents/file storage and search
On the go, real-time communication	Employee facing processes
	Process automation via workflows, forms and notifications

Not great for:	Not great for:
Department/organization level content management	Real-time communication
Intranet or division sites	Meetings and active collaboration
Content/collaboration that is open to everyone	Closed-group discussions
Platform to provide services department/organization wide	Short term projects