Not a fan of Teams - we have Teams, Sharepoint, OneNote and an old Shared Drive.

Good Luck finding a file when you need it, it can be anywhere.

Search in Slack is better. The big thing people miss in Teams is conversation threads. Slack does it well so you don't need to juggle multiple conversations at the same time.

I'm used to it. There isn't anything additional I need it to do. It sends out meetings super easily and adds it to people's calendars. You can easily share files and make calls. I can do anything on my phone or desktop. I don't love it, but I don't hate it.

The one thing I hate is getting 200 thanks for the presentation messages when we do company wide meetings. I'm sure there's a button to ignore the meeting chat I just haven't looked yet.

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Originally posted by bryan11:
Search in Slack is better

Your version of Slack must be way better than ours.

I miss being able to monitor multiple mtgs concurrently.

And being able to easily export IM sessions.

Had to use it for work today for a class.
First window crashed. Second window crashed. Just got audio.

had to install it on my phone so I could finish the class.

After class, I promptly deleted it from my phone and pc.

We have to transition to Teams from Webex to save the company money

We use it for internal chat & meetings.
No real complaints, but my profile/account never played well with Skype for Business. Very little grumbling from end users.

Teams sucks but you just have to go with it.

Frankly I barely use it, while others in my company are on it all day, everyday.

We use it mostly for quick chat messages, we are a small law firm so it works well. Our files are on sharepoint which we all have access to so we never share a file, just tell someone where it is and they go get it and work on it.

I tried the "new Teams" button about a week ago. Yeah, do not do that. It's like a beta version designed to crash your MS login credentials across all MS programs. Just do not

So, after reading this thread that I started, my conclusions are:

—99% of users think Teams is a clunky unintuitive POS

—IT orgs love it because it’s one unified application to manage instead of several

—We just need to embrace the suck and do our best using it even though it actually hinders communication and productivity

When Covid hit and we all got told to work remotely, we used Skype (briefly) and then Zoom. About six months before I retired we switched over to Teams. I hated it, for all the reasons others have already listed. Most of all, the video had serious resolution problems when somebody else was displaying a screen shot. A lot of the time I couldn't make out what it was. Hated it. Never did get that resolved.

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Originally posted by konata88:
Each day brings an new way to hate Teams. It has to be one of the sloppiest, laziest applications they've brought to market. Teams should have been named "Why can't I ....?"

This is how I feel about it. We use Webex since we’re a Cisco gold partner, yet we have a swath of the company that feels like Teams is the gold standard and wishes to see us migrate to the Teams platform.

In a meeting I said that the efficiency losses alone, from a user standpoint, would equate to moving our server cabs to customer sites via a single Prius, instead of our current freight carriers.

Everything Microsoft releases has a “designed and approved by a 1000-person committee” feel about it.

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Originally posted by PASig:
So, after reading this thread that I started, my conclusions are:

—99% of users think Teams is a clunky unintuitive POS

—IT orgs love it because it’s one unified application to manage instead of several

—We just need to embrace the suck and do our best using it even though it actually hinders communication and productivity

You nailed it, precisely.

Not sure if a user can resolve audio/video issues without an update on their desktop or VM. (we have to have permission to install and update apps) About a year ago the Teams desktop app would ask for a 1-5 star user rating on video and audio after a meeting. We get mandatory desktops pushed out about twice a month by our NOC folks. I never really check to see what gets updated but the video and audio quality started taking major strides forward really fast. Also a few niceties that allowed multiple conversations with screen sharing. Problem we had was we didn't know it was available until IT let us know.

Even with all the improvements that all have made (Teams, Zoom, Slack, etc), and they have, IMO all suck total shit compared to face to face when close collaboration with team members is needed. Zoom pretty much proved my point, their work from home has bee drastically reduced. My software developers are now coming in three days a week. If collaboration is not really important and a few conversations with other members of the org are all that is needed the app doesn't matter. I'm guessing most fall somewhere in between the two points I just described.

On a side note, Zoom can apparently join teams meetings and conversations now. We've never really pursued it but it may be worth following up on if you hate Teams and don't hate Zoom as much, and your organization will allow it. I'm guessing it would be a bit weird where not all features on both ends are available?

IT also knows teams is shit. Legal is who likes it. If someone says something in teams that they should get fired for and deletes it, they still get fired for it. There's no such thing as delete, it's all kept to be used against you.

I use it almost daily.

It takes a while to get used to.

It does what it needs to do.

You learn to work around its quirks.

Use it mostly for meetings with a dispersed team.

It integrates well with the Outlook calendar, making it really easy to schedule meetings