Microsoft will soon be discontinuing support for Skype for Business and is replacing it with their new service called Teams. Teams is a part of the Office 365 Cloud service and can be access via a web browser, via the desktop client, or by installing the app on your mobile device. You can stay in contact with your colleagues, create discussion groups, and store files from any of these devices.
- To get started you first need to activate your Office 365 account by logging in via your TAMU NetID credentials: gateway.tamu.edu/office365/
- Once your account is created, you can use Office 365 features, including Teams.
- Using the Teams client at your desktop allows Teams to start up when you start your computer and run in the background.
- You can also download the mobile app to your mobile device by going to the App Store for iOS devices or the Google Play Store for Android. Search for and install the Microsoft Teams app.
- There is a good Teams Training Video from LinkedIn Learning that describes how to use all of the Teams features:
- Microsoft Teams Essential Training (1h 56m)
- Sign in to Linkedin Learning using your TAMU NetID credentials. You need not have a Linkedin account or profile.
Standardized Naming Convention for Team Group Names
When creating your own Team names in Teams so that they will be easily identified for our Division, Unit, and function, please follow this naming structure:
Team – [college/division]-[deptcode]-[function]
- The word "Team –" is fixed and will automatically be inserted at the front (you do not need to add the word "Team –")
- [college/division-] for our Division should be "VPFO-" (note the hyphen on the end)
- [deptcode-] should be the FAMIS code for your unit (note the hyphen on the end)
- [function] is something meaningful to describe the team function
Examples:
- Team – VPFO-SFSV-Leadership
- Team – VPFO-HUMR-All_Staff
- Team – VPFO-FISC-OPS-Accounts_Payable
- Team – VPFO-FISC-ACCT-Property
- Team – VPFO-PTTS-Counter_Staff
- Team – VPFO-PAYR-Leadership_Group