Microsoft Teams Reviews

We use Microsoft Teams for internal calls and customer-facing calls.

The most valuable features of Microsoft Teams are the calendar integration and the integration of chat and chat history into events. The integration of chat and chat history into events that I don't attend is useful because it allows me to find the dialogue in a call easily. It also allows me to go back and view recording videos.

Microsoft Teams should include better integration of the multi-viewer webinar-type system.

I have been using Microsoft Teams for probably three years now.

Microsoft Teams is a stable solution. I rate Microsoft Teams ten out of ten for stability.

Microsoft Teams is a scalable solution. I rate Microsoft Teams ten out of ten for scalability. Around 1,000 users are using Microsoft Teams in our company.

We previously used Webex and Zoom. We switched to Microsoft Teams exclusively since it is included in the Microsoft package and subscription and has improved features.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

Microsoft Teams is a cheap solution because it's included in the Microsoft 365 suite.

We are using the latest version of Microsoft Teams. I recommend Microsoft Teams to other users.

Overall, I rate Microsoft Teams an eight out of ten.

We use Microsoft Teams for any work-related activities.

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Teams is that it is integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem.

Because it's cloud-based, sometimes Microsoft Teams will have outages. The solution's customer support should be faster and more responsive.

I have been using Microsoft Teams for four years.

I rate Microsoft Teams a nine out of ten for stability.

Microsoft Teams is a scalable solution. Around 50 users are using the solution in our organization. I rate Microsoft Teams ten out of ten for scalability.

The solution's initial setup is easy.

Microsoft Teams takes only a few minutes to deploy, and just one person can download and install the solution. The solution does not require any maintenance.

Microsoft Teams is a cheap solution. I rate Microsoft Teams a five out of ten for pricing. The product has a monthly license, and there are no extra costs besides the license fee.

I recommend other users to use Microsoft Teams as it is a really good software from Microsoft.

Overall, I rate Microsoft Teams ten out of ten.

Microsoft Teams is a very good collaborative tool. The solution provides instant messenger, collaboration with teams, and you can do calls. You can use Microsoft Teams to share files and store files. You can use the solution to create your own channel from the perspective of topics and share discussions and files.

The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved.

I have worked with Microsoft Teams for eight years.

I rate Microsoft Teams a nine out of ten for stability.

I rate Microsoft Teams a nine out of ten for scalability.

I rate Microsoft Teams an eight out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

Microsoft Teams gives the best return on investment.

Microsoft Teams is the best collaboration tool in the market today.

On average, five people would be required to deploy and maintain Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Teams is very user-friendly compared to Slack.

Overall, I rate Microsoft Teams a nine out of ten.

I use the solution for messaging and chatting. 

The solution needs to improve the APIs. 

I would rate Microsoft Teams stability a nine out of ten. 

We have an internal technical team and at times it gets resolved before escalation. 

The product setup is easy. 

I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. 

For all the meetings and events we are using Microsoft Teams.

The most valuable features of Microsoft Teams are the ease of use. It is very good for a small virtual office for meetings and calendars which sync well together.

Microsoft Teams could improve because it is heavy on bandwidth. We have some access points and when we have 30 or 40 users on it with Microsoft Teams calls can drop. WebEx does not use as much bandwidth.

When someone joins a meeting we are not able to kick them out.

I have been using Microsoft Teams for approximately three years.

Microsoft Teams is stable.

The scalability of Microsoft Teams is good and is easy to do.

We have approximately 450 - 500 users using the solution.

I have used Skype for Business and WebEx.

The initial setup of Microsoft Teams is straightforward.

We have a license needed to use Microsoft Teams.

I would advise others to set the parameters correctly for security. You can transfer files between users in the chat window which is helpful.

I rate Microsoft Teams a nine out of ten.

I use Teams for meetings, chats, and outgoing calls.

Teams' most valuable feature is the ability to choose from multiple numbers to show when calling.

Teams doesn't always sync to show as Do Not Disturb during Outlook meetings. In the next release, it would be useful to see other users' availability.

I've been using Teams for a year and a half.

Teams is stable, though there are very occasional problems with flashing when screen sharing.

We previously used Skype, but Teams is more user-friendly and syncs with Outlook.

The initial setup was challenging because Teams was a new platform for us, but it was that hard, and the training provided helped us understand better. Deployment took three months.

Teams is really user-friendly and not that complex. I would give it a rating of nine out of ten.

We mainly use Teams for meetings and video chatting.

In general, Teams allows me to connect with anyone in the organization and share files with the team.

The call quality could be better sometimes. Microsoft could improve the quality of the backgrounds. File sharing could also be smoother. It takes a lot of clicks to download and copy the links. It should be only one click. 

It's also problematic to get people outside the organization into the chat or groups. I can define my own team irrespective of the organizational structure. Still, if I need to work with external partners or colleagues at my company and want them on one team, it's relatively complicated to add external people to the team.

I've been using Teams for about four years. 

I can't say that Teams isn't stable. The only issue we have is the call quality. Sometimes it blurs, or the video stops. However, that could be a connectivity issue that isn't directly connected to the tool. 

I rate Microsoft Teams eight out of 10. 

We use the solution for group meetings.

One big advantage of this solution over competitors is it is bundled with Office 365. This makes it more convenient. Additionally, this solution integrates well with Outlook, which is part of the bundle, and other applications such as your calendar.

This solution is not as popular for companies to use as other solutions making it a disadvantage.

I have been using the solution for a couple of months.

We have approximately 260 people in my organization using this solution.

I have used Zoom previously and I have found there are technical problems frequently, such as the meeting or voice cuts out. This can happen even if the same network is used. The quality of voice is better with this solution.

I would recommend this solution to others because I have had good experiences.

I rate Microsoft Teams an eight of out ten.

We primarily use the solution for team conversations.

For example, I use it for filing team documents, although, for individual notes and things of that nature, I might use OneNote. I'm using it more and more now for video conferencing within the organization. I haven't really used it too much outside of the organization, although my plan is to use it outside of the company in the near future.

Began using for team documents and plans.  

Teams provides a strong capability to consolidate all collaborative capabilities related to a team in one platform.  This is especially important for project teams where the team members are spread across geographic locations and time zones. 
Incorporates improve and new collaborative tools such as Lists, Plans, Tasks into the tool that integrate into Outlook for notification and response to the assignements.  These capabilities are truly game changing in project management and delivery in the COVID-19 world

In the past three months of continuous improvements the tools have improved and simplified collaborative efforts dramatically

This solution is great for ad hoc video conferencing. It's so easy to start a meeting. We're finding more and more uses for the Teams video conferencing features. I'll be honest, it's a bit of a challenge for people to use the video aspect. The tendency for people is to not turn on their camera because they don't like the way they look or they're not able to sit in their pajamas during meetings if there's video involved. However, it's been a game-changer since the pandemic as it allows us to keep in touch with our teams remotely.

Microsoft has delivered integrated tools and collaborative capabilities that continue to strengthen and bring great value to Teams.  This positions Teams as the collaborative tool that will soon become the standard in the market for capabilities.  The document and plans/assignment improvements are game changes from a simplicity and functionality perspective.

I really like the video conferencing, and the reason is because of the simplicity of scheduling and using the software. Since I'm using Outlook for my email and calendar management, and it's connected with everything. It's just a click of a button to schedule a meeting, and then, to activate or to start the meeting, it's just another click of a button. Everything is streamlined and simple. 

The seamless integration and easy coordination with mobile devices is a wonderful aspect of the solution. It's great that, even if I'm not at my desk, I can still attend the Teams video conference and interact in the same way that I would if I were at my desktop.

There's an option to blur the background or to completely change your background. That's very helpful as we now use the solution to replace stand-up meetings. It removes background distractions for other users and allows participants to have a bit of privacy.

I have a regular meeting with a couple of people on my team, and normally, we would meet at somebody's desk or in an office or in the conference room. With Teams, we can all attend, and all see each other and we can have the same outcome as we would if we were all in the same room. While digital meetings as opposed to in-person meetings takes a bit of time to get used to, the learning curve is short because of the seamless integration.

What would really help is extending the time that you're active on the mobile device because I can't find a way in Teams to restart the app automatically. For instance, in Teams, we use it as an organization for instant messaging and for text messaging. The problem is if I restart my mobile device, I have to remember to restart Teams in order to get the text messages on my device. It's not automatic.

The solution should standardize the options across platforms. What I mean by that is, sometimes, on the mobile, there are not the same options and set up features and functions as are available on the web or on the desktop app. Everything should have the exact same functionality, otherwise, it's difficult if some people are on mobile and others are on desktop.

I've been using the solution for year now.

I haven't run into a problem with stability and I have not experienced any crashes, bugs, or glitches in the Teams App. You must remember this is a web app though.  Any performance or stability issues that I have experienced were related to Internet service issues and not the Teams App.

I haven't run into a problem with the scalability of the solution. I've used it at my last job with teams that are as small as 15 people and the thing that's nice about it is that I can be part of a dozen teams and it easily maintains the communication to all the teams separately so conversations stay organized.

We're business consultants, and, right now, there are about a dozen of us using it. The consultants are located in different geographic areas of the US, and there are even people working in India that are using Teams. Geographically, the solution expands to make communication possible anywhere.

The organization I work with now, as I understand it, has plans for increasing usage. Right now, it's rather limited in terms of who is using it. Maybe 20% of the people on staff are and there's about a hundred people on staff in total. 20% of those people using Teams in a relatively limited way. Frankly, I'm trying to encourage people to use Teams and drop other video conferencing tools.

I don't know how technical support is, to tell the truth. The type of technical troubleshooting I use for Teams is basically just seeking answers on the internet. I typically Google something if I don't understand an aspect of the solution.  There are community boards and that sort of thing. It's worked out pretty well for me. I've never had a crash or a bug though, so I've never had to reach out to technical support to get them to get me back online or to sort out an issue of that nature.

We haven't used a different solution previously. This is the first video conferencing suite we've adopted in the company.

The initial setup is web-based in terms of the style of set up and is very straight forward. I use the web-based setup because I wanted my experience to be the same no matter what device I use. As an example, I can use my work laptop, or my Chromebook or tablet and I have the capabilities to see and interact in the same way.

There's an initial challenge though because if people that have the app have it installed on their laptop, for instance, and they're running an application on their device, it has a different look and feel compared to what's on the web version.

We have one person to deploy and maintain the solution. It's actually a part-time role. It's one of the consultants who maintain it as part of his other duties. He's in charge of desktop devices and desktop applications. 

When a new person needs to be added, he just sets up the laptop and gets everything ready. He also maintains the license. With Microsoft 365, it's pretty straightforward. I just access the Office app or service and it installs directly. I may access the app through the cloud anyhow, so there's really no maintenance to do.

We have an employee in house that maintains the licensing, however, we install the solution ourselves for the most part.

I don't handle the payments for the service. It's not my department.

We're using the latest version of the solution. We just get the solution from the cloud, so it's always the most up-to-date option.

I've noticed, since the pandemic, that, as of maybe three or four months ago, Teams was much more widely accepted in Europe than in North America. I believe this is starting to change.  Recently though (late 2020) this has changed and especially since the roll-out over the summer and fall of improvements in collaborative document, planning and tracking capabilities.

I would recommend marketing the tool to people by showing demos of the capabilities for people and actual use cases. If I were trying to bring this into a new company I would ask people what they were doing for communicating with teams, or how they were using text messages, collaboration tools, video conferencing currently, etc., so that I could actually demonstrate how to do that same thing. 

There's literally hundreds of text tools, collaboration apps and video conferencing options on the market. The key to a business' success at communication is to ensure the various teams are all on the same platform or using the same tool.

That doesn't mean everyone in the company needs to use it the same way. If they're using the same tools, then at least, the base platform is the same and your company can build on that. Rather than Google docs for one thing and Microsoft Teams and, OneDrive, SharePoint, and all of these different tools, you've got to kind of pick a lane.

I would rate the solution overall at about an eight out of ten. That's due to the simplicity and ease of use. There are great features available. However, it loses a few points because the setup and the admin capabilities are different across platforms.

Our use case is mostly for screen sharing and video conferences. I'm a solutions architect/systems engineer and we're a customer of Microsoft. 

The video conferencing would be the best feature. One of the main reasons for moving to this solution is that it's included with our Office365 subscription. As a company we were already paying to use it. 

I would like to be able to see a larger number of participants in the gallery view, that would improve the product. I think the ability to integrate with other team's scheduling, for example, with people outside the organization would be a good feature. For example, most of our business partners work for Dell and EMC and they also use Teams. It would be great if we could pop on a video conference with them where screens were shared and we could at least see information on each other's calendars or some sort of external scheduling feature.

I've been using Teams for the last seven months. 

It's a stable solution. 

The scalability is pretty good, our entire company uses it and we're about 60 people which includes engineers, sales, administrative, accounting, shipping and receiving.

We used Skype previously and switched because Teams is included in our Microsoft package so we were paying for it anyway. 

The initial setup is pretty straightforward, it's part of an easy to manage subscription.

(November 2020)   Now, several months and a pandemic since my original review, I'm happy to say that the product has improved with better performance and increased functionality.