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Teams Manager

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What is Teams Manager?

Teams Manager for Microsoft Teams is a software tool designed to enable companies to manage their internal structures while facilitating the creation of new teams on Microsoft Teams. The application ensures that users adhere to naming conventions and governance policies set by the company, which helps enforce standardization across all teams in the organization. The software offers pre-defined templates with channels, tabs, permissions, settings, and apps that help streamline team creation.

Teams Manager has an authorization process built-in that automatically forwards requests for new teams to predefined personnel for approval or denial. Additionally, master templates can be updated without IT support, making it easy to keep track of changes and maintain consistency throughout all existing teams in the organization. The software provides complex preconfigured templates aimed at improving collaboration and team structure right from the start. With its synchronization capabilities and one-click installation through Teams Store, Teams Manager is a valuable tool for managing internal structures while allowing users flexibility when creating new teams on Microsoft Teams.

Categories & Use Cases

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Governance Dashboard and Reports – for an overview of Microsoft 365 environments
Automated request and approval process for new teams, M365 groups and SharePoint sites
Templates and provisioning for teams and SharePoint Sites (with channels, tabs, apps, folders, Planner with tasks, OneNote with content and more)
Lifecycles for teams: inactive or obsolete teams can automatically be archived or even deleted after a specified period of time
Naming conventions for teams, OneNotes and Planners: rules for uniform, relevant names with predefined prefixes and suffixes
Mobile view for all functionalities

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Teams Manager is a must for growing Teams!

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Teams Manager is used to track our experimental workflow through OneNote. Since it allows for OneNote integration into teams, this gives us the capability to streamline access and make sure that all data is captured in a managed way. This is the primary use case, but other templates are also available.

Pros

  • OneNote integration.
  • Template creation.
  • Workflow management.

Cons

  • Tool tips.
  • Ability to have multiple windows open.
  • Guided videos.

Return on Investment

  • Estimated labor savings of ~2-4% for project managers.
  • Streamlined access to data.
  • Post data acquisition analysis is easier.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ProofHub

Other Software Used

OneNote, Miro, ACE

Teams Manager for Microsoft Teams

Ahmad janView profile
Customer service rep in Customer Service at Zones LLC (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Teams Manager is an online collaboration tool to connect within anyone with ease within and outside the organization it helps people to share their projects and thoughts through online video call and Audio call. I am currently the user of Microsoft Teams, and we use this for the internal conversation of organization you can see the employee current status their organization hierarchy their email address and their other contact details.

Pros

  • AUdio calls
  • Video calls
  • Meetings

Cons

  • Microsoft Teams should add some more features like locking the personal conversation chat.
  • Delete chat Options

Most Important Features

  • online collaboration between employees

Return on Investment

  • there is no negative impact but our business has improved with Microsoft Teams Manager

Alternatives Considered

Skype for Business and now part of Microsoft Teams

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Defender, Webex App

Teams Manager a Centralized Platform for Team Work

Incentivized
Rehan AnsariView profile
IT Manager in Information Technology at Gammastack (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Teams Manager for Microsoft Teams helps create different teams, giving them permission of what to access and define their limit. It is a platform that keeps the whole organization at one place. Previously when Work from home started it was a tough task to handle different teams in one place. You have to separately take the feedbacks of the projects etc. Now through this everything is centralized. Assigning tasks and seeing the progress of any project is easy now.

Pros

  • Handles different teams and teams members
  • Giving them permissions as per their job profile and necessity
  • Seeing the projects' progress through one platform

Cons

  • There should be a privacy for users chat in a team
  • Every user should not be allowed to create a team, but only Team managers should do this
  • Many channels which are inactive for long time should send notifications to the manager about the inactivity and thus should be deleted if not in use

Most Important Features

  • Managing every user on the same platform
  • adding members according to their projects in a particular channel
  • Adding a person in multiple channel according to their projects assigned

Return on Investment

  • A centralized platform for the Operation Manager to handle and see the progress of different projects
  • This makes it easy to handle everyone at one place thus reducing time in contacting individuals and taking the feedback on progress
  • Knowing of any hurdles or bottlenecks in any project by just clicking on any channel and seeing their discussion. Thus guiding them then and there only.

Other Software Used

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), greytHR

Teams Manager for MS Teams review

Incentivized
Mukhtiyar AhmedView profile
Associate-IT in Information Technology at Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt. Ltd (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Teams Manager to manage Microsoft Teams across the organization, we are able to comply with the templates, channels. Users can raise a request to us to create new teams channel, planners according to these templates.

Pros

  • Effective management of Users and Teams group.
  • Creating templates for Groups, planner.
  • Naming convention to make sure the inactive groups are archived.

Cons

  • None

Most Important Features

  • Managing Users.
  • Creating Templates.

Return on Investment

  • We are able to archive the inactive groups.

Teams Manager for Microsoft Teams is great for the organization!!

Incentivized
SAVANNA SIBLEY
Volunteer Enagagement and Events Manager at United Way of Southern Nevada (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Teams is user-friendly and convenient for all employees within your company. It allows employees to chat, send documents, schedule meetings, reminders, and SO much more. Microsoft Teams helps our organization be more efficient in a timely manner. We use it on a daily basis several times a day.

Pros

  • Allows employees to chat
  • Allows employees to send documents
  • Schedule meetings/reminders
  • Allows to use emojis, which makes light of any situation :)
  • Allows to video chat and call with multiple coworkers

Cons

  • Learn the platform
  • Use the platform to your advantage

Most Important Features

  • Helps control Microsoft teams for all employees
  • Planner
  • OneNote
  • Allows channels, tabs, emojis, etc.

Return on Investment

  • Positive Impact on our work environment
  • Positive Impact for efficiency
  • Positive Impact with punctuality

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