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Explains how to download and install the Microsoft Teams desktop app on a personal or home computer running macOS or Windows 11. Applies to Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students installing Teams on a computer that is not Bowdoin-issued.

Explains how the owner of a video recorded in Microsoft Teams can download that video from Microsoft Stream to share it on another platform or keep a personal archive. Covers signing in to Microsoft 365, opening the Stream app, and downloading a video. Applies to Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students who own recorded Teams content.

Explains why a Teams meeting organizer might want to limit participant privileges and how to use Meeting options to choose who can present. Applies to Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students who organize Microsoft Teams meetings.

Explains the different ways to start or schedule a Microsoft Teams meeting, including an ad-hoc video, voice, or screen-sharing session from a chat, and scheduled meetings created in the Outlook desktop app, Outlook on the web, or the Microsoft Teams calendar. Applies to Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students using Microsoft Teams.

Instructions for team and channel owners on adding, removing, and changing the roles of members in Microsoft Teams. Covers managing members of a team, a private channel, and a shared channel, explains owner, member, and guest roles, and lists reasons membership may not be editable. Applies to Bowdoin team and channel owners.

Explains how to find a direct link to a folder or subfolder inside a Microsoft Teams channel by opening it in SharePoint and copying the browser address. These links are useful for automation, integrations, sharing, or troubleshooting. Applies to Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students using Microsoft Teams on the desktop or web.

Whether to add a shortcut or sync when you want Microsoft Teams channel files and shared folders to appear in File Explorer or Finder. Compares the two options, explains which one follows you between computers and which is tied to a single machine, and covers switching from one to the other.

Step-by-step instructions for creating a new team in Microsoft Teams for department or project collaboration and file storage. Covers opening Teams, choosing a template and privacy setting, naming the team, adding members and assigning roles, setting up channels, and customizing the team. Applies to Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff.

An explanation of how Microsoft Teams organizes work into channels, how permissions work across teams and channels, and where files are stored in the linked SharePoint site. Covers standard, private, and shared channels, owner and member roles, the folder structure behind Teams, managing channel settings, and best practices. Applies to Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff.

Explains how OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint fit together, where a file actually lives depending on whether you put it in OneDrive, a Teams chat, or a Teams channel, and how to decide where your own work belongs. Points to the step-by-step articles for moving files and for reaching them from File Explorer or Finder.

Step-by-step instructions for scanning a document from a campus multi-function device (MFD) directly to a Bowdoin OneDrive account using PaperCut. Includes first-time setup steps for authorizing PaperCut access to OneDrive.

Step-by-step instructions for scanning a document from a campus multi-function device (MFD) and sending it directly to a Bowdoin email address using PaperCut. Includes information about page count limits and how to reduce file size for larger documents.

Explains how to use metadata columns to organize and find files in a Microsoft Teams channel, and how to create and use tags to @mention a group of team members. Covers adding metadata in grid view and managing tags for a team.

How to sync a Microsoft Teams channel folder or a folder shared with you so it appears in File Explorer or Finder, what a live two-way sync connection means for shared files, how to choose which folders come across, and how to stop syncing and reclaim the space.