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25 reviewers had the following to say about Microsoft Teams's features:
Teams is also allowing us to collaborate and share files more efficiently.
Pros
My favorite feature is the chat function and the searchable history it keeps for conversations.
Cons
I wish Teams had a bit more granular control over permissions for managing created teams and file management.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
A good feature is chat search, allowing you to lookup previous chat messages to track discussions and verify plans and information shared in chat.
Pros
The software/service provides ad-hoc meetings and conferencing along with text based chat, document management and integration with other Microsoft products.
Cons
Most users will only utilize basic chat and conference features as document sharing and management is almost an afterthought.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Great, easy to use, have all the functionalities I needed
Pros
Easy to use, have all the functionalities I needed for collaborations, easy to manage and install, cross platform
Cons
Files management, folders, file sharing, team sharing interface, customise the look and feel, plug in of 3rd parties tools
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
- Great interface - East access to different channels and files that exist within the subgroup - Plugs into the Microsoft Ecosystem for embedded application access - Better management of conversations - Third-party apps and API integration
Cons
- Does not support guest access - Requires installing a local desktop application for an optimal experience.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Collaboration and central documents repository is one of area my team is using with wikis for Knowledge sharing
Pros
Teams available in desktop, web and mobile is one of the greatest advantage.
Cons
Plus sometime notification are missed causing missing if info
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Great product if you are only needing a collaboration and communication hub for your team.
Cons
I really wish this had more project and calendar management abilities.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Chat is OK. File management is OK for simple use cases, horrible for complex use cases but can be "fixed" if you're willing to look at SharePoint that sits behind Teams.
Pros
Quick to set up initially, pleasant looking user interface, significant functionality out of the box.
Cons
I must switch what's showing in my one window to move back and forth -- how incredibly primitive! File storage is stilted and awkward in Teams.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I am happy with the product and expecting more improvement and integration.
Pros
. - Complete package (chat, collaboration, audio, screen-share & meetings - Mobile application is also very easy to use.
Cons
. - Addition of video functionality will be a plus.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Team meetings are easier and more organized. File sharing also had improvments.
Pros
There are a lot of apps that you can integrate with it also. The mobile application is also good.
Cons
Because of all the features and capabilities the software does not run so smothly on not brand new computers.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Has made coordinating and collaborating within our team much easier and improved overall communication.
Pros
Makes quick communication seamless and helps organize accounts by giving options for different chats and subgroups within those.
Cons
Sometimes file management can be difficult in sharing between chats and Teams with file overwriting in different groups.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Very good, it increased productivity, good online meeting experience, some flaws like file storage and creating new channels but overall it is a great product.
Pros
Integration of third party applications ensures that we don't need to leave the application to use the other apps.
Cons
We have to create new team channels from scratch and cannot replicate one, it has to be done automatically.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Meeting functionality works well.
Pros
Best feature is that it's a single app for messaging, collaboration, and meeting.
Cons
On occasion (perhaps once or twice a month), a user is unable to unmute themselves while in a call, and needs to drop and rejoin in order to be heard.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Teams quickly became the backbone of our organization's daily workflows, facilitating the transition to remote working during the pandemic.
Pros
Seamless integration into daily MS Office workflows. Complete and user-friendly conferencing and collaboration solution.
Cons
The interface tries a little too hard to incorporate everything, from video calls to chat to document editing.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We need a good software for team collaboration and also replace our existing enterprise messaging software.
Pros
Fully featured. with chat, meetings, channels, integrations with many third party softwares, user friendly
Cons
By default channels you are in does not show notifications unless configured.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
A ton of gifs can be searched and used in the chats and that is a lot of fun.
Pros
Calendar and notifications are easy to setup and work efficiently.
Cons
Adding attachments to chat is sometimes difficult as the drag n drop feature doesn't seem to be consistent for some files.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We use it on daily basis to facilitate work from home, and for management meeting.
Pros
Record a presentation, can connect online without install application on the computer.Available on mobile (Android, IOS).
Cons
Messaging interface it not easy to use.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
The software interface is difficult to figure out, with obvious design conflicts of the classical and the metro app era.
Pros
It has a decent authorization feature, fairly well integrated with the other parts of the Microsoft ecosystem.
Cons
While claiming, much like the fictional machine, that this software can cover all your team management needs, it fails spectacularly at all of them.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Still more work to be done to make it a all-round team collaborative tool , We just started this tool for Team Collaboration need but i am not so happy with the features.
Pros
Nice Design , Integrated with Office and Skype for Business to make communication easy Good collaboration tool and share Documents among teams Have feature to create different groups and channels
Cons
Content Search option is not good Sometimes slow and bulky to load Navigation is not so easy Mobile app is not upto the mark
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I use it every day for project management, team management, task delegation, communication, and information sharing.
Pros
Easy permission management using Office365 Groups.
Cons
The interface feels quite clumsy when coming from Slack, notifications about new messages do not work properly (so you will need to actively check), no easy way to create rich-messages from a custom integration (e.g. links are not automatically detected in message body, a action must be explicitly added)
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
We are saving a ton of time chatting in Teams, versus email back and forth.
Pros
I love that Teams is integrated to all of Microsoft Office 365 and enables you to not only chat with co-workers in user-friendly ways.
Cons
I do think that the notification windows should disappear automatically when you click on a chat.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Enables easy collaboration among large groups of people and allows sharing of documents and notes.
Pros
Really enjoy the user interface as well.
Cons
Live editing within documents does not always sync when there are multiple people editing at the same time.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Mainly used to ease communication between teamworkers and stay updated on each others tasks ! Microsoft Teams has proved to be efficient, reliable and a great source of evidence.
Pros
- Easy to easy - Good memory management - Good UI ( dark mode/ light mode) - apps integration
Cons
- In my opinion the search system can be better
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
would definitely recommend Microsoft Teams to other institutions looking to enhance teamwork and collaboration
Pros
It also works on mobile devices making it even more convenient
Cons
I would recommend the Calendar management feature to allow follow up on tasks and project milestones
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
My team uses it primarily for the text chat feature, so that is what I am focusing my review upon.
Cons
I can't comment on how well the call interface works because I use this almost exclusively for text group chats.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
