Microsoft Teams
Remember, the use of personal devices to access your ESDC Office 365 account is restricted; only ESDC-furnished equipment can be used to access your Office 365 account. In the coming weeks, ESDC will begin enforcing this directive by blocking personal devices from accessing ESDC Office 365 accounts altogether. If you do not have an ESDC managed smartphone, tablet, or laptop, you can access the ESDC network, including Office 365, by connecting your personal computer to AppGate or via Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Out of the box, Teams and Office 365 give all employees a powerful, integrated suite of tools that will save you time, make remote work more engaging, and improve collaboration and decision-making.
Teams is the one application from Microsoft that brings all your Office applications together in one platform. It is effectively a "virtual office space".
Features
Teams incorporates features from Skype and social media and integrates other Microsoft applications in one digital workspace to enable remote collaboration and facilitate teamwork. Visit our Features page to find out how you can reduce meetings and emails, make remote work engaging, and discover new and exciting audio and video features.
Key Topics
Below are key topics and updates currently affecting Microsoft Teams. For information on Key Topics regarding Office 365 and Teams, please visit the Office 365 iService page.
Skype Decommissioning
As part of ESDC's ongoing investments to modernize the workplace technology available to employees, ESDC is decommissioning Skype for Business. Microsoft Teams is the department's new standard for instant messaging and audio/video conferencing. Visit the Skype Decommissioning overview page to learn more about how this affects you.
Automated Chat Deletion
Starting June 30, 2021, the instant messages that you create in the chat feature in Microsoft Teams will be automatically deleted when they are 15 days old. This applies to all messages that have been created since this tool was adopted by ESDC. Visit the Microsoft Teams – Instant Messages overview page to learn more about how this affects you.Restricted Devices
Employee access to the Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) network and our collaboration tools, such as Microsoft Teams (Teams) and Office 365 (O365) will soon be restricted to ESDC-issued devices.
Access to cloud applications (e.g., O365 and Teams) from personal devices will be blocked.
Restrictions will be enforced starting in summer 2021.
Please visit the Restricted Devices iService page for more information.
Getting Started & Learning
Visit the Getting Started and Learning page for guidance on how to get your Teams app ready to use, on where to get more information on Teams basic, and resources to continue learning about Microsoft Teams.