What is Microsoft Teams?

[MUSIC PLAYING] When Microsoft is talking to customers about Teams, the funny thing is the biggest question that some customers have is, what is Teams? At Microsoft, we'd like to say Teams is your hub for teamwork in Office 365. But what does that actually mean? The best way to think about Teams is Teams is a unified client that sits atop all of the Office 365 services. So regardless of whether I need to plug into files, or chat, or meetings, Teams provides a common interface across mobile clients, desktop, and web to unify all the different services of Office 365. One of the things that you have to understand about Teams is that it's very much a citizen of the Office 365 world. And by that I mean that Office 365 has pretty deep and wide data governance capabilities. And Teams picks up pretty well all of them. So there are things like the strong auditing there and strong capture of compliance records. And data loss prevention is supported. Retention policies are supported, and so forth, and so on. So all of those type of things are available. And it means that if people go and they put stuff into Teams, that information can be tracked. That information is indexed. It's discoverable. It can be found again. First of all, if you're not using Teams, I mean, you've got to. It is-- I know everyone keeps saying "Teams." It's probably deafening, a lot of noise-- Teams, Teams, Teams. But it really does take collaboration to the next level. It really allows you to communicate with a small group of people that you're working on a project with or maybe for a specific goal, but it gets those conversations out of your email. So let's put those conversations in Teams. If you want to go back and read those conversations, they're easier to find in Teams. You do get the SharePoint site behind the scenes, so you can store your files there. You can collaborate on those documents. You can create web parts that you've serviced in Teams for doing dashboards and stuff. So Teams gives you the ability to do all your work in one place so you don't have to hop around to Outlook, to Explorer, or Edge, or Chrome, or whatever you're using. You can do it all from within Teams. [MUSIC PLAYING]