{"id":225176,"date":"2016-11-02T08:25:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=225176"},"modified":"2022-08-25T16:13:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T23:13:11","slug":"introducing-microsoft-teams-the-chat-based-workspace-in-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2016\/11\/02\/introducing-microsoft-teams-the-chat-based-workspace-in-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Microsoft Teams\u2014the chat-based workspace in Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today, at an event in New York City, we announced Microsoft Teams\u2014the new chat-based workspace<\/a> in Office 365. Microsoft Teams is an entirely new experience that brings together people, conversations and content\u2014along with the tools that teams need\u2014so they can easily collaborate<\/a> to achieve more. It\u2019s naturally integrated with the familiar Office applications and is built from the ground up on the Office 365 global, secure cloud. Starting today, Microsoft Teams is available in preview in 181 countries and in 18 languages to commercial customers with Office 365 Enterprise or Business plans, with general availability expected in the first quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n

At Microsoft, we are deeply committed to the mission of helping people and organizations achieve more\u2014and reinventing productivity for the cloud and mobile world is core to our ambition. We built Microsoft Teams because we see both tremendous opportunity and tremendous change in how people and teams get work done. Teams are now more agile and organizational structures more flat to keep communications and information flowing. With Microsoft Teams, we aspire to create a more open, digital environment that makes work visible, integrated and accessible\u2014across the team\u2014so everyone can stay in the know.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Teams delivers on four core promises to create a digital workspace for high performing teams.<\/p>\n

Chat for today\u2019s teams<\/h3>\n

First and foremost, Microsoft Teams provides a modern conversation experience for today\u2019s teams. Microsoft Teams supports not only persistent but also threaded chats to keep everyone engaged. Team conversations are, by default, visible to the entire team, but there is of course the ability for private discussions. Skype is deeply integrated, so teams can participate in voice and video conferences. And everyone can add personality to their digital workspace with emojis, stickers, GIFs and custom memes to make it their own.<\/p>\n

\"Chatting<\/p>\n

A hub for teamwork<\/h3>\n

Second, Microsoft Teams brings together the full breadth and depth of Office 365 to provide a true hub for teamwork. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneNote, Planner, Power BI and Delve are all built into Microsoft Teams so people have all the information and tools they need at their fingertips. Backed by the Microsoft Graph, intelligent services are surfaced throughout the workspace to help with information relevancy, discovery and sharing. Microsoft Teams is also built on Office 365 Groups\u2014our cross-application membership service that makes it easy for people to move naturally from one collaboration tool to another, preserve their sense of context and share with others.<\/p>\n

\"Microsoft<\/p>\n

Customizable for each team<\/h3>\n

Third, since all teams are unique, we\u2019ve invested deeply in ways for people to customize their workspace, with rich extensibility and open APIs available at general availability.\u00a0For example, Tabs provides quick access to frequently used documents and cloud services. Microsoft Teams also shares the same Connector model as Exchange, providing notifications and updates from third-party services like Twitter or GitHub. Further, we are including full support for the Microsoft Bot Framework to bring intelligent first- and third-party services into your team environment.<\/p>\n

\"Messaging<\/p>\n

Today, we are also announcing the Microsoft Teams Developer Preview program, allowing developers to extend Microsoft Teams. We will have integrations with over 150 partners at general availability\u2014including our early partners Zendesk, Asana, Hootsuite and Intercom.\u00a0This is the first step in providing the customization users want and the tools and support our developer community will need to integrate with Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n

Security teams trust<\/h3>\n

Finally, Microsoft Teams provides the advanced security and compliance capabilities that our Office 365 customers expect. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Like all our commercial services, we have a transparent operational model with no standing access to customer data. Microsoft Teams will support key compliance standards including EU Model Clauses, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA and more. And, as customers would expect, Microsoft Teams is served out of our hyper-scale global network of data centers, automatically provisioned within Office 365 and managed centrally, just as any other Office 365 service.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft Teams joins the Office 365 universal toolkit<\/h3>\n

Microsoft Teams joins the broadest and deepest portfolio of collaboration applications and services to help solve the diverse needs of people and organizations globally. As we\u2019ve learned from our 85 million active monthly users, all groups have a diverse set of needs when it comes to working together. Office 365 is designed for the unique workstyle of every group and includes purpose-built applications, all deeply integrated together.<\/p>\n