Microsoft Teams Administration: Plan, Configure, and Deploy

Introduction

• Need to install and secure your Microsoft Teams sessions?

1. Upgrade from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams

• Introduction to Teams admin center
• Configure coexistence mode for the organization and user

2. Plan and Configure Network Settings for Microsoft Teams

• Plan for successful network deployment: Network Planner
• Bandwidth capacity: Voice, video, meetings, live events
• Assess and troubleshoot network readiness
• Configure network ports and protocols used by Teams client
• Configure media optimizations by using QoS
• Configure and manage locations

3. Identify Licensing Requirements for Microsoft Teams

• Required licensing for compliance features
• Appropriate licensing for guest access
• Appropriate licensing: Calls, phone system, resource account
• Appropriate licensing for Teams Rooms, common area phones
• Appropriate licensing for apps in Teams

4. Governance and Life-Cycle Management for Microsoft Teams

• Plan policy assignment for users and groups
• Create team templates
• Set up policies for Office 365 Groups creation
• Configure Office 365 Groups: Classifications, expiration policy, naming policy
• Archive, unarchive, restore, and delete a team
• Configure and manage app policies
• Perform bulk user operations with PowerShell
• How to add a Team from scratch

5. Configure and Manage Guest Access

• Configure guest users, prevent users from adding guests
• Configure permissions for Teams
• Configure guest and external access for Teams
• Remove guests from a team organization or Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)

6. Manage Security and Compliance

• Assign Microsoft Teams admin roles
• Plan threat policies
• Creating and managing retention policies
• Plan for conditional access and MFA for Teams
• Create security and compliance alerts for Microsoft Teams
• Create an information barrier policy
• Creating sensitivity labels

7. Deploy and Manage Microsoft Teams Endpoints

• Deploy Teams clients to Windows and mobile devices
• Manage configuration profiles
• Manage Microsoft Teams device tags

8. Monitor and Analyze Service Usage

• Interpret Microsoft Teams usage reports
• Interpret Microsoft 365 usage reports
• Optimize call quality by using Call Analytics
• Configure Tenant Data Upload in the Call Quality Dashboard
• Monitor and report on creation and deletion of teams

Conclusion

• Next steps