Managing Microsoft Teams: MS-700 Exam Guide

Configure and manage Microsoft Teams workloads and achieve Microsoft 365 certification with ease

Peter Rising, Nate Chamberlain

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781801079532
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Informatik
• Subtopic: Systemverwaltung

Discover how to plan a Microsoft Teams deployment within a business environment and manage Teams administrative functions on a day-to-day basis

Key Features

• Plan and design your Microsoft Teams deployment
• Prepare, deploy, and manage policies for Microsoft Teams and for apps within Teams
• Pass the MS-700 exam and achieve certification with the help of self-assessment questions and a mock exam

Book Description

Do you want to build and test your proficiency in the deployment, management, and monitoring of Microsoft Teams features within the Microsoft 365 platform? Managing Microsoft Teams: MS-700 Exam Guide will help you to effectively plan and implement Microsoft Teams using the Microsoft 365 Teams admin center and Windows PowerShell. You'll also discover best practices for rolling out and managing MS services for Teams users within your Microsoft 365 tenant. The chapters are divided into three easy-to-follow parts: planning and design, feature policies and administration, and team management, while aligning with the official MS-700 exam objectives to help you prepare effectively for the exam.

The book starts by taking you through planning and design, where you'll learn how to plan migrations, make assessments for network readiness, and plan and implement governance tasks such as configuring guest access and monitoring usage. Later, you'll understand feature administration, focusing on collaboration, meetings, live events, phone numbers, and the phone system, along with applicable policy configurations. Finally, the book shows you how to manage Teams and membership settings and create app policies.

By the end of this book, you'll have learned everything you need to pass the MS-700 certification exam and have a handy reference guide for MS Teams.

What you will learn

• Explore Security & Compliance configuration options for Teams features
• Manage meetings, calls, and chat features within Microsoft Teams
• Find out how to manage phone numbers, systems, and settings in Teams
• Manage individual team settings, membership, and guest access
• Create policies for Microsoft Teams apps and features
• Deploy access reviews and dynamic team membership

Who this book is for

This Microsoft Teams book is for IT professionals who want to achieve Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate certification. Familiarity with the principles of establishing and administering the core features and services within a Microsoft 365 tenant and a basic understanding of Microsoft Teams features are required before getting started with the book. Prior knowledge of other Microsoft 365 workloads such as Security & Compliance will also be beneficial.

Section 1: Planning and Designing Your Microsoft Teams Deployment

Here, you will learn how to plan and design your Microsoft Teams environment within Microsoft 365. Upon completion of this section, you will be able to describe the upgrade paths to Microsoft Teams and plan network, security, compliance, and governance settings. Additionally, you will understand the principles of service usage within Teams along with guest access settings and how to deploy and manage endpoint devices to use Teams.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Planning Your Migration to Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 2, Assessing Your Network Readiness for a Microsoft Teams Deployment
• Chapter 3, Planning and Implementing Governance and Life Cycle Settings in Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 4, Configuring Guest Access in Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 5, Managing the Security and Compliance Settings in Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 6, Managing Endpoint Devices in Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 7, Monitoring Usage within Microsoft Teams

Chapter 1: Planning Your Migration to Microsoft Teams

If you are planning to start using Microsoft Teams within your organization, there is a strong chance that you will be upgrading from Skype for Business. If this is the case, then it is critical to plan your upgrade to Teams in a diligent and thorough manner in order to ensure a seamless transition for your users. In this chapter, we will explain the principles of upgrading from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams.

We will demonstrate the concepts of coexistence modes within Teams, and how to choose an appropriate upgrade path. This will include an explanation of the differences between coexistence mode at the organizational level and per-user level. We will also explain the process of migrating Skype for Business meetings to Teams using the Meeting Migration service, along with how to set Teams upgrade notifications and meeting application choices.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

• Planning an upgrade path and coexistence mode from Skype for Business
• Understanding coexistence mode at both the organization and per-user level
• Configuring the Meeting Migration Service to migrate Skype for Business meetings to Teams
• Setting the Microsoft Teams upgrade notifications and default apps while in coexistence mode

Technical requirements

In this chapter, you will need to have access to the Microsoft Teams Admin Center, which you can reach at https://admin.teams.microsoft.com. You will need to be either a Global Administrator or a Teams Service Administrator in order to have full access to the features and capabilities within the Teams admin center.

You will also need to be able to connect to the Skype for Business Online PowerShell in order to run the commands required to configure hybrid connectivity between Skype for Business on-premises (if you have one) and your Microsoft 365 environment.

Planning an upgrade path and coexistence mode from Skype for Business

Skype for Business Online will reach its end of life on July 31, 2021. Because of this, many organizations will need to plan how they are going to introduce and transition to Microsoft Teams. There is the option to complete this journey gradually by running Skype for Business and Teams alongside each other for a time, or by moving fully to Teams.

In this section, we will help you to understand the methods and tools that are key to a successful transition, and the principles of coexistence between Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams.

Choosing your upgrade path

The steps required to complete your migration to Microsoft Teams are largely dependent on which version of Skype for Business you are currently running in your organization. If you are running Skype for Business Online, then you will need to complete a coexistence mode setup with Teams.

However, should you be running Skype for Business on-premises, the process is more complex and requires not only setting up coexistence, but first establishing hybrid connectivity with your Microsoft 365 environment. This is required because Skype for Business on-premises users must be moved to the cloud in order to function correctly during the subsequent coexistence mode setup.

Understanding hybrid connectivity

In order to configure hybrid connectivity between your Skype for Business on-premises environment and Microsoft Teams, there are three key steps that need to be completed. These are as follows:

1. Federate your on-premises Edge service with Microsoft 365. This will allow your on-premises users to communicate with your Microsoft 365 users. To enable federation, you need to run the following command from the Skype for Business Server Management Shell:
   Set-CSAccessEdgeConfiguration -AllowOutsideUsers $True -AllowFederatedUsers $True -EnablePartnerDiscovery $True -UseDnsSrvRouting
2. Set your on-premises environment to trust Microsoft 365 and configure a shared Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) address space. This will allow Microsoft 365 to host users who have an SIP domain address from the on-premises environment. To achieve this, we need to set a hosting provider by running the following commands.
3. First, check to see whether there is an existing hosting provider, and if so, remove it:
   Get-CsHostingProvider | ?{ $_.ProxyFqdn -eq "sipfed.online.lync.com" ...

Table of contents

• Managing Microsoft Teams: MS-700 Exam Guide
• Foreword
• Preface
• Section 1: Planning and Designing Your Microsoft Teams Deployment
• Chapter 1: Planning Your Migration to Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 2: Assessing Your Network Readiness for a Microsoft Teams Deployment
• Chapter 3: Planning and Implementing Governance and Life Cycle Settings in Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 4: Configuring Guest Access in Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 5: Managing the Security and Compliance Settings in Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 6: Managing Endpoint Devices in Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 7: Monitoring Usage within Microsoft Teams
• Section 2: Administering the Meeting, Calling, and Chat Features within Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 8: Managing Collaboration and Chat within Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 9: Managing Meetings and Live Events in Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 10: Managing Phone Numbers in Microsoft Teams
• Chapter 11: Managing Phone System in Microsoft Teams
• Section 3: Planning, Deploying, and Managing Policies for Microsoft Teams, and Apps within Teams
• Chapter 12: Creating and Managing Teams
• Chapter 13: Managing Team Membership Settings
• Chapter 14: Creating App Policies within Microsoft Teams
• Section 4: Mock Exams and Assessments
• Chapter 15: Mock Exam
• Chapter 16: Mock Exam Answers
• Chapter 17: Assessments
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