Quick Tip: How To Create a Channel in Microsoft Teams

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

November 8, 2016

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Quick Tip: How To Create a Channel in Microsoft Teams

 

Yesterday, we showed you how to create your first team in the Microsoft Teams interface and add members to the teams collaboration site.

The next step in building out your teams site is to add Channels so that you have places for focused conversations about different aspects of your teams project.

Each new Channel you add to a Microsoft Teams site has Conversation, Files, and Notes Tabs by default and then you can add additional ones to expand the capabilities of that Channel. Of course that configuration will be dependent on which services your team members need access to in that Channel.

Channels can also be customized using one of the Connectors that are available to access various services to deliver information for the team members in that Channel. In the current Microsoft Teams Preview there are nearly 80 Connectors available for immediate use.

The number of services that will be available as Tabs and Connectors in these Channels will grow as more developers bring their services to Microsoft Teams.

However, without a Channel there is no where to use these Tabs and Connectors so let's add the first Channel to your new Microsoft Teams site.

 

About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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