How to Ping Someone on Teams?

Quick summary

Pinging someone on Microsoft Teams uses the @mention feature to send a direct notification to a person, channel, or entire team. You can use @general, @teamchannel, or @channelname to control who gets alerted in any conversation.

Steps

1. Open any Teams channel and compose a message you'd like to share with your team.
2. Type @general in your message to notify everyone in the general channel, then click Send to deliver it.
3. Use @teamchannel in your message to ping everyone belonging to a specific team.
4. Use @channelname to notify all members of a particular channel and mark the message as important for them.