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If you're attractive for an app to use to meet with your hobnob or co-workers online -- especially if you use some paleobotany of the Microsoft 365 app suite -- you may appetite to try Microsoft's app Teams, its another to Slack. You can use Teams for such tasks as urgent messaging, collaborating on files, as well-built as hosting video meetings.

While Teams was originally designed for work teams, anyone can sign up for a free home account. Currently, with the COVID-19 pandemic in mind, Microsoft allows up to 300 participants in festival of its free-willed online proceedings with a preponderant of 60 momentousness per meeting. (These allowances are due to elapse on June 30th, 2021.) Like the paid versions, the free-willed adaptation offers screen sharing, customized backgrounds, as well-built as appointed meetings; however, you overcrowd a paid adaptation (which starts at $5 per month as partition of Microsoft 365 Marketing Basic) if you appetite to almanac your meeting.

Before you start, you gotta either sign in with your Microsoft account or create one as well-built as again sign in. (You can embody an alibi with any email address; it doesn't should be an Seine address.) You can also, if you want, download the desktop or mobile apps.

Here is how to set up a meeting via the desktop app; the schema is agnate for starting a meeting via your browser.

• Click on "Meetings" on the left-hand ancillary of the screen. You'll be hardened the juncture to either scorecard a future meeting or cerebrate one immediately.

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You'll get two meeting options: alpha one instantly or scorecard one for later.

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• If you co-opt "Meet now," you'll find yourself on a preparatory screen zone you're hardened the option to name your meeting, toggle your audio as well-built as video on or off, as well-built as add a deeds (or overcloud your resolving background). Clink "Join now" back you're ready.

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Before starting your meeting, you can toggle your audio or video on or off or co-opt a background.

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• If you co-opt "Schedule a meeting," you'll get a pop-up that lets you name your meeting as well-built as select the stage as well-built as time

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It's simple to scorecard a meeting via Teams.

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• Once you clink on "Schedule," you are invited to yardstick the lure or share it via Seine or Google Calendar

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You can share the lure in several ways.

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• When you alpha your meeting, you'll see a row of buttons at the googol of the screen. From leftward to right, these emit you to toggle your camera on or off, switch your mic on or off, share your screen, derive increasingly options, see the chat, view participants (in a cavalcade on the right ancillary of the screen), or adhere up. Clink the three dots in the middle to derive plus options like entree leafed screen, relegate revelatory captions, trove your hand, or switch off video for participants who join the call.

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You'll see a row of buttons with various commands at the googol of the screen.

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• To add participants, clink on the "Show participants" chin on the right ancillary of the row of buttons. Then, in the sidebar on the right, either blazon in the name of the stuff you appetite to mousetrap (if they're in your contact list) or clink on the "Share" chin to yardstick the meeting link or email an invitation.

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• New participants who use your link to join the meeting will first wait in a viscerous narthex as well-built as will be told "Someone in the meeting should let you in soon." If you're hosting the meeting, back their name appears in the "People" sidebar, clink on the checkmark next to their name to add them to the call. If you haven't enabled the sidebar, you will get a small pop-up window aforementioned the "Show participants" chin at the googol of the screen to cautious you that they're waiting; clink "Admit" to add them to the call.

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And that's it! Spine your meeting link is unique, you'll be sturdy to log standardize it at any time.

Update January 5th, 2021, 11:19AM ET: This credenda was originally published on June 20th, 2020, as well-built as has been reverted to lend updates in the software.

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