Balu N Ilag - Configure, Customize, and Manage the Teams Experience

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Teamwork is essential in the digital transformation of any organization to a modern workplace. Through teamwork, places can pull together using working tools and well-channeled communication methods. However, even as the team plans to work together, there are challenges in team collaboration. There are several approaches Microsoft Teams uses to ensure it can solve communication and collaboration challenges. For instance, Microsoft Teams facilitates proper communication and collaboration in an organization. Using Teams, users will be able to communicate through voice, video, real-time chat, content sharing, and meetings with dial-in and desktop sharing. The applications in Microsoft Office 365, such as Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Planner, Task Management, OneNote, Exchange, and SharePoint, are also integrated with Teams to bring together work tools and resources.

Microsoft Teams is a vast product, and it does have several features that make administration challenging. This book is a reference guide that provides solutions, tips, and workarounds for all you need to plan, customize, implement, and operate Microsoft Teams in any environment. This book on Microsoft Teams unified communication and collaboration technology is devoted to a Teams workload, administration, tools, and technique during the various deployment and migration phases of Teams.

This completely rewritten book thoroughly reviews the administration tools and capabilities available in the latest versions of Microsoft Teams, and adds extensive new coverage of Teams services, Phone System Direct Routing, calling, Meeting, and most important, problem-solving approaches. Learn how professionals solve unified communication and collaboration challenges by architecting the Teams experience effectively.

This book is for everyone who uses or supports Microsoft Teams. You will learn about the user experience effective Teams management, requirements, and essential considerations for deploying Teams as part of a Microsoft 365 installation. Youll also learn about Teams governance policies, such as expiration, retention, and archiving [73].

These tasks are essential for the successful management and deployment of Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Teams administrator is a new role Microsoft introduced based on extensive market research [72]. Many organizations have started thinking about a Teams administrator role because Teams is a comprehensive product that requires multitechnology knowledge including, but not limited to, Office 365, Teams services, Web service, Azure Active Directory (AAD) , basic networking knowledge, public switched telephone network (PSTN) and phone system knowledge, and more.

The Microsoft Teams administrator configures, deploys, and manages Office 365 workloads for Microsoft Teams that focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in an enterprise environment. The Teams administrator must be able to plan, deploy, and manage all Teams features. The Teams administrator would also be responsible for upgrading from Skype for Business to Teams and must be familiar with telephony integration and Teams Direct Routing using Session Border Controller (SBC) , and phone system calling plans and audio (dial-in) conferencing.