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1. Link Officevibe Teams with Slack Channels (optional) If you create teams in Officevibe, you can then map them to your existing Slack channels so new employees can automatically be added to the appropriate Officevibe teams and if an employee is removed in Slack, they will then be removed from the Officevibe team.
2. In this article, we will see and go through each and every aspect of the Slack app. It is an ultimate guide that will help you know how to use Slack.

Like many other companies, we have embraced Slack as a primary means of communication. Email traffic has gone down considerably for internal communications. We have found that our PMO and Development teams pretty much only use Slack, but the business side of the house is lagging behind and still lives a bit too much in email. Skype is used much less for messaging as well. It’s been good with Slack. We all love using it, and it simply works everywhere for everyone.

We get enough from Slack for free that we haven’t bothered paying for it. When you don’t pay for Slack, your organization can only store a limited number of messages, but that amount is large enough that we never felt we were missing information. Because we know messages will atrophy, we think of Slack as more for replacing conversations versus information to be archived. Information naturally atrophies after a couple weeks anyway, so we have felt no pain with this. Surely if we were paying for Slack, we would be thinking about it more as an information archive.

When MS Teams released for preview, we were intrigued primarily because we use so many other Microsoft products. We are an Office 365 house and use Visual Studio Online. We use Visual Studio for XAML, Xamarin, and Azure apps. We also build Unity apps. SharePoint for document storage and OneNote for Wiki’s are also part of how we run our projects and collaborate. All of our project tasking is managed in Visual Studio Online. So we took it upon ourselves to kick MS Teams around to see if Slack lovers could be converted. Across the board, we were all surprised.

What we found is that the people who used Slack the most (our developers) took less than 5 minutes to say “I think this could work”. After understanding how MS Teams integrates into everything we already use, which basically is just another 5 minutes, then it changed to “we need to use this”. We began to focus on what we would be missing by leaving Slack, and if MS Teams is ready, even in a preview state, for prime time. How are the MS Teams mobile apps? Where does all this information live? Here are our first impressions:

External users. We do not integrate external users into our internal conversations because they are sensitive. Slack has been great for times when multiple teams need to get together, such as for a large deployment. For a few days it was a great way for us to communicate with people across organizations. Slack beats MS Teams hands down in this area from what we can tell. MS Teams is centric to your company. Granted you can add external users to Office 365, but there is still so much friction to that process that it does not make it viable (at least for us). Slack is simply better when dealing with external users. Hopefully there is something on the roadmap for MS Teams to manage this better.

It’s good to be free. MS Teams is a feature of Office 365. That means if you are a paying customer of Office 365, it’s free. We can now think of our messaging and conversation platform as a place to archive data because there is virtually unlimited storage. No more 10,000 message limit that would cause the messages to atrophy in Slack. Office 365/user is $8/month. Slack/user is $7/month. Office 365 is so cheap it actually made us not ever want to buy Slack licenses – it never felt worth it to us.

Teams v Channels. This one is an interesting difference and was a source of confusion. In Slack, we have an InterKnowlogy team and a bunch of channels. Channels can be managed to specific users. It’s a flat approach that works well because you have visibility across all the channels quickly with a simple glance down your channel list. With how MS Teams works, it feels more natural to have more teams and fewer channels. Users are managed to the team level. Once we shifted to that line of thinking, the way MS Teams integrates started making a whole lot more sense. MS Teams has different ways of seeing messages you care about, including aggregating them all together. There is also a way to favorite different levels of items (teams and even certain people) to elevate their visibility in the MS Team apps.

Mobile. We have Android and iOS users, and the MS Team mobile apps are solid. We keep commenting how well the mobile and desktop apps are working for a preview product.

Unrecoverable Deletions. Probably our single largest gripe about MS Teams is that it appears to have unrecoverable deletions. This is why we are turning off channel deletion within teams after a team is created. However, when you upload files to a team, which is awesome in itself, it stores the information in a SharePoint group that is automagically created for you. If a team owner goes into SharePoint behind the scenes and deletes the group, there is no way to currently recover that group. Granted people can be taught to be good citizens and probably never run into these problems, but as a company we are little concerned that something that we will rely on day in and day out might be accidentally deleted without being recoverable. It is highly likely that if you had not known about this, it would never have been encountered. However, it’s good to know where risks are. We see that Microsoft has the feature of recovering deleted SharePoint groups on their roadmap. As an alternative, since we already use a SharePoint site per project, you can easily add a view in a team (of MS Teams) to a document library of a site.

Slack V Teams Login

Connectors. I think this was probably the largest “OMG” moment across the developers. When we connected Visual Studio Team Services to MS Teams in under 30 seconds, did a build, and watched the build results get published into MS Teams, it was simple awesome. Granted Slack can be connected as well, but this was so frictionless that we all felt that Microsoft nailed it. The connector list is super long and includes the following (sorted by popularity): Wunderlist, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Visual Studio Team Services, Chatra, Zendesk, Dynamics 365, MailChimp, BitBucket, Aha!, Airbrake, Aircall, AppSignal, Beanstalk, Beeminder, BMC TrueSight Pulse (Boundary), Buddy, Bugsnag, Buildkite, CATS Applicant Tracking System, CheckMarket, CircleCI, Cloud 66, Codeship, Constant Contact, Crashlytics, Datadog Doorbell, Enchance, GetResponse, GhostInspector, Google Analytics, GoSquared, Greenhouse, Groove, Help Scout, Heroku, Honeybadger, Insping, Intercom, Jenkins, Librato, Logentries, Magnum CI, New Relic, OpBeat, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Papertrail, Pingdom, Pivotal Tracker, Promoter, Ramen, Raygun, Rollbar, Runscope, Salesforce, Satismeter, Semaphore, Sentry, SimpleInOut, Stack Overflow, StatusPage.io, Subversion, TestFairy, Travis CI, updown.io, UserLike, UserVoice, XP-Dev, and Yo. Pretty impressive list for a preview product.

So we are excited about switching to MS Teams. We will be proactively moving all Slack and Skype conversations into it. As a preview product, we find it stable enough to rely upon. It only took 30 minutes to configure all the teams and channels in MS Teams, and that even included many redo’s as we were fumbling around when to use channels and when to use teams. We are pleased with the quality of this preview and look forward to the additional features Microsoft will be adding.

Ms Teams Vs Slack

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