Microsoft Teams Reviews

We use it for many things, including chat, video conferencing, meeting rooms, and file storage. We've got lots of apps loaded in it. We're quite heavy users of it.

We like it because it makes it easy to communicate, chat, make video calls, and schedule meetings with people. It is a hell of a lot easier than the business used to be.

There could be performance spikes and better reliability. We saw a lot of stability issues.

Microsoft Teams rooms and their updates are highly unreliable. They don't release enough notes about it. They're very buggy, which we find highly frustrating.

I have been using Microsoft Team for a long period.

There are a lot of bugs. The app they release is often buggy and frequently experiences downtime. 

We have many users on Mac, and Teams for Mac App often crashes. There are still some bugs until you raise a ticket, they fix them, and then they release an update, and it will break again. It's not reliable.

I rate the solution’s stability probably six or seven out of ten.

If you want to include other people, it's so complex. Sometimes, if you want to add guests, they appear as external. You can add individuals as external or guests; they are quite different. 

Additionally, the licensing process for adding people can be really complicated; it can take hours to show up. Sometimes, we create a user, and it may take 24 hours before they gain access to what they need. So, it's definitely not easy to scale.

I rate the solution’s scalability a six out of ten.

We have at least 300 people, including all of our external or guest, using the solution.

The customer service is terrible. We've joined a group of 17 other companies with a joint ticket raised with Microsoft for issues with logging people out because of some issues. A big accounting firm was also part of the group, and big law firms were with us. Microsoft has done nothing. It's been three months, and they've not done anything.

My initial response would be to describe the setup as highly complex.

I rate the initial setup a five out of ten, it wasn't simple, it wasn't complex. It fell somewhere in the middle, especially when compared to Zoom. We have extensively used Zoom before, and Zoom is genuinely easy to use, while Microsoft Teams is comparatively more challenging.

Microsoft Teams’s pricing is low.

I rate the pricing four out of ten, where one is low and ten is high.

I’ve used Zoom before.

I better recommend Zoom to other users.

Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

I use the solution to chat with my team. 

I would like to see more customization options in the product such as more integration with other tools. 

I have been using the product for five years. 

I would rate the solution's stability an eight out of ten. 

I would rate the product's scalability a seven out of ten. My company is a start-up and has 12 users for the product. 

I haven't contacted technical support yet. 

Neutral

I would rate the solution's setup a seven out of ten and we have deployed it on the cloud. 

I would rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten. 

I would rate the product a seven out of ten. It is a good tool and I don't have any problem with Teams. 

We use Microsoft Teams for messaging, group chats, and video calls.

You can coordinate meetings more rapidly with Microsoft Teams. You can use the solution to get a group of people together quicker.

The most valuable features of Microsoft Teams are video conferencing, chat function, and the one that shows you that you've got new messages.

Microsoft Teams withdrew the Wiki function, which was quite a good and useful feature. The solution has withdrawn the Wiki function in favor of SharePoint.

I have been using Microsoft Teams for two years.

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

Microsoft Teams is a completely scalable solution. Every employee in my organization uses the solution, and I use the solution every day.

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

Microsoft Teams is deployed on-cloud in our organization. My advice to someone considering Microsoft Teams for their company would be to check it out against their use case requirements.

Overall, I rate Microsoft Teams a six to seven out of ten.

We use Microsoft Teams for internal and external meetings.

Compared to Zoom, Microsoft Teams is a very good solution and works well. The issues which were there earlier are much better now.

The solution's recording could be improved because it is not as good as other products. Some more advanced switches can be introduced in the solution to make the recording more usable or editable.

Microsoft should make available some option with the product to cut a part of a meeting video at a specific time instead of using the entire video. An option should be made available to trim the video and convert it into a different kind of extension like MP4 OR MP3, which we can use in the website recording or keep for future reference.

I have been using Microsoft Teams for three years.

Microsoft Teams is a stable solution. However, sometimes we face issues because the user's status doesn't update properly, which causes some syncing problems. Sometimes the user's status doesn't update very quickly, and it shows a user's status as offline when the user is online.

Microsoft Teams is a scalable solution, and more than 300 to 400 users use the solution in our organization.

The solution's technical support depends upon the call volume. Mostly, it's good, but sometimes you may face issues with the technical support's response time.

Positive

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

Installing Microsoft Teams for our entire office takes five to ten minutes. The solution does not require any special maintenance.

Microsoft Teams comes with a yearly subscription, which is not very expensive. In addition to the subscription cost, if you want to buy some additional service, you must pay for it. Options are available for adding, removing, and scaling the license based on our requirements.

Microsoft Teams is installed on-cloud in our organization.

Microsoft Teams is a good solution. It is a good solution for someone with a basic need and not a very high-end need for HD video. The solution is good for a conference of around thirty to forty people. However, the solution is still not scalable for bigger organizations with a huge number of users. Microsoft Teams is an ideal solution for smaller organizations and smaller meetings.

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

Microsoft Teams is used, in our case, to collaborate with all internal employees, to work on offering some proposals, and to work together online on files in Word and Excel. We largely use it to collaborate online and to have video meetings with customers. 

We can integrate SharePoint sites with other people. We have libraries that are available within Teams so that people can sync those libraries to their local drives and therefore will have the most up to date information and documents at their disposal.

The integration of online jobs and documents is one of the most valuable aspects of the solution. The ability to integrate tasks and to assign tasks to certain people is great. 

I'm really waiting for the release of Lists to be included. Lists is a new feature that will probably come into Teams in August. It will be a way of using some sort of database to enter interlinked lists.

I don't like the online version of Word and Excel. It skews the layout. It is no longer representative of the layout that you actually have in a document. You always have to open it in the desktop application to get an accurate representation of how the document will look. 

If you open a document in Teams, it opens online first. If you have, for instance, an entire image on the front page, that image is descaled to the right and to the bottom. So you have a lot of white space on the page, while in reality, it's pretty nicely aligned. You basically have a borderless page. That's one of the main things that they can improve on. If they had a workaround where you can open it in the desktop apps first, it would be better. 

The solution needs to adjust the number of protected channels within a team.

The solution should maybe include breakout rooms within a team meeting. For example, let's say you are with 10 people, within one meeting space. You can have three accounts in separate smaller "meeting rooms" with just two or three people accessing them and still be within the same larger meeting environment. Let's say if you have a team where you have some technical members, some solution architects, a bid manager, a capture manager, an account manager, etc., you should be able to break up a meeting into multiple smaller sessions on certain topics, and yet still stay within the same meeting space. 

They should include a visual application also within Teams, so drawings that are made can attach to that space within the proposal with the ability to add Word or Excel files, as well as tasks, etc.

We've been using the solution for two years now. That's well before everyone started using conferencing systems during COVID-19.

It's a stable solution. We haven't had any hiccups. Its been working flawlessly for the two years that I'm using it now.

The solution is easy to scale, however, you need to take into account best practices so that you don't lose oversight on the number of teams that you have. 

There are other things that can be improved of in terms of scaling. For the moment, you can have approximately 5,000+ different teams within your Office 365 license. In each team, you can have multiple channels. The number of channels with limited access rights is limited to 256 or 250. If you create a channel where you want to find all your different projects and you have more than 250 customers within one team, you run into issues. Then you have to create separate teams for each customer. In those teams, you have various possibilities on channels. We started using a team, for instance, for customer projects. However, in customer projects, you are limited. It's only on about 25 channels that you can give access rights to certain people. If you are working on the project with company X together for a customer, you don't want them to see another project for another customer with a competing solution. That's the tricky part.

That was a limitation that we encountered with scaling. We changed the approach from having a team customer project to creating teams for each customer where we have projects.

Currently, in our organization, we have 250 employees using Teams. We use it quite extensively every day.

We haven't really reached out to technical support. If we need support, we first reach out to our IT department and they will figure it out on our behalf, or contact Microsoft directly. In my experience, until now, with Office 365, I haven't had any issues. I'm satisfied with the product but I can't speak to any specific experience related to customer service.

We use a bunch of solutions at any given time. We have Cisco Webex, for example. We also have the Mitel My Call app and for some of our customers, we also need to use Zoom and BlueJeans. So we have quite a few solutions that are active.

If you look at just the feature of video conferencing and you look at Zoom and BlueJeans and Microsoft Teams, they're all pretty much alike. It's mainly the integration of everything document-wise and the consistency that I really liked within Microsoft Teams.

Out of all of the other solutions, BlueJeans is the one that I found the least reliable. We had quite a few hiccups where we eventually fell back to Cisco WebEx for video conferencing instead of the BlueJeans solution.

Then we have Zoom, which I have less experience with. It's used by a few vendors with whom we collaborate from time to time. They use Zoom predominantly, so when we conference with them, it's largely through that.

In terms of Cisco WebEx, the thing that I don't like is that if someone invites you for a meeting and you connect to the meeting early, you don't get notified when the meeting actually starts, so you constantly have to reload until the meeting organizer starts the meeting and accepts you. For instance, last week, I went into a Cisco WebEx meeting. I connected two minutes before the actual time that the meeting should have started. I opened the WebEx application and the meeting didn't start. 10 minutes later, I reloaded the application and reconnected to the session and they were already actively meeting. The application didn't notify me when the meeting actually started. That's a big drawback.

The solution is installed by our IT department. In the beginning, we had some issues with assigning rights. Not everybody was able to create a team or to invite people into a team or to share files. However, now they have changed a few things around. There are quite a few people now that can create teams, add members, etc., and you can add external members and there are a few new policies internally about best practices.

I was one of the first parties to implement a solution like Teams. Our company bought a few companies and every company was using different tools as their main resource. The one thing that they all had in common was Microsoft Office 365, and yet they didn't use Teams at that time. I was one of the people asking our organization to implement Teams because my position requires me to have to collaborate with people from all of the different companies that our company bought.

The deployment was done in less than a week. That was due largely due to the availability of our IT staff. Once they began doing the implementation, however, it was done within a few hours. It was activated, rights were assigned, and people with rights could begin working and downloading the team's application on smart devices, on their computers almost right away. 

It's as easy as using Skype for a private person. You just download the application and you can start.

I believe we've been using the latest versions of the solution. We use whichever version is pushed out with Office 365.

I would recommend the product. It works with everything. I have an iPad Pro, I have an iPhone, I have my computer. It's installed on all three devices. It works flawlessly. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten, simply because there are a few things the solution still needs to improve upon.

We use the solution for internal communication purposes. 

The solution helps with collaborative communication. You can use it to chat and book calls. You can even set the status as away. It also has a transcript feature integrated. 

The solution needs to integrate ChatGPT so that the solution can summarize the meetings. The solution needs integration with AI. Copilot is already in the pipeline. 

I would rate the product's stability an eight out of ten since at times I need to reconnect the solution. 

I would rate the solution's scalability a ten out of ten. My company has 800 users for the solution. 

My vendors use Google Meet and Zoom which have compatibility issues. The system gets confused and asks whether to continue with the browser or go to the app. We have also encountered login issues with the app. I prefer Teams to other apps. 

The solution's setup is easy. You need to put in your registered email ID to configure it. We have deployed it on the cloud, so I have it on my desktop and mobile. 

Our internal IT team did the configuration. 

The solution's pricing is reasonable and I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

I would rate the product an eight out of ten. 

Microsoft Teams is used in our organisation for internal communication and also for managing the meetings and other communications as well. 

Managing meeting on Microsoft Teams is better than managing traditional face to face meetings.

There can be more customization and also the task management tools needs better tools for integration.

I have been using Microsoft Teams since 2019. 

It is a stable solution. I rate it eight out of ten. 

It is a scalable solution. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten. 

The technical support team is fair. I rate them an eight out of ten.

The initial setup is straightforward. I rate it nine out of ten.

The solution is fairly priced. 

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. 

Teams is mostly for internal purposes. We use it to communicate between our company with colleagues. Instead of sending emails all the time, we have Teams just to send documents or communicate for anything, even creating groups.

It’s very easy to set up. It doesn't take that long.

You can either use it on your phone or on your PC.

You can make phone and video calls.

It makes it easy to communicate with colleagues.

One time the product was basically freezing. I couldn't send a message to my colleague for some reason. I had to restart the PC or restart my phone for some reason. I don't know why it was buggy. Maybe it was overloaded or something.

The desktop and mobile apps are quite different. They should work to make both virtually the same.

I have had an issue in the past with it being buggy and freezing. I had to restart my devices to get it going again.

Everybody in our organization uses the solution. It’s on every PC in the company. It’s, give or take, a bit less than 100 people.

Usually, I contact my IT team to share any issues. I haven't used the support from Microsoft Teams. Usually, it doesn't have that many issues. It's just straightforward.

I’ve also used Slack.

Teams can be used as an internal tool, whereas Slack might be considered more public. We are able to share internal documentation more effectively with Teams.

The initial setup is effortless and straightforward. It’s not complex at all.

I don't know how much it costs. That’s not an area I am involved in.

I’m not sure which version of the solution we’re using.

It’s good to use it internally with colleagues. You do not have to share anything with external organizations. It gives you basically the advantage of not having any external partners or anything. It's just for internal purposes with nothing to communicate with other partners. It’s a great internal tool.

I’d rate the solution nine out of ten.