Introduction
Microsoft Teams is core to Microsoft's vision for intelligent communications. It brings together conversations, meetings, files, Office apps, and third-party integrations to provide a single hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365. To achieve its goal of supporting intelligent communications, Microsoft has designed comprehensive calling and meetings capabilities into Teams. It's also added data and insights from the Microsoft Graph, and a strong roadmap of innovation to empower teams to achieve more.
The Microsoft Teams design is built on a new, modern infrastructure for enterprise-grade voice and video communications. Microsoft's next generation, cloud-born architecture is already powering communication experiences in Microsoft Teams, and is evolving rapidly. Teams provides both speed of innovation and higher-quality communication experiences.
Teams has evolved into the primary client for intelligent communications in Microsoft 365, replacing the Skype for Business client.
This module examines the key features of Microsoft Teams. It provides instruction on how to manage authentication and access to Teams, implement guest access, manage audio conferencing, select a voice solution using Microsoft Teams Phone, and configure organizational settings in Microsoft Teams.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe basic Teams functionality and the infrastructure that supports its goals.
- Describe how Teams compares to the other collaboration apps in Microsoft 365.
- Manage app permission policies for Microsoft Teams users.
- Provide Teams access by managing user licenses in the Microsoft 365 admin center and PowerShell.
- Describe the functionality provided by Guess access in Microsoft Teams.
- Describe audio conferencing functionality that's available in Microsoft Teams.
- Assign an audio conferencing license and a conference ID to each user to support audio conferencing.
- Select a voice solution using Microsoft Teams Phone.
- Configure your Microsoft Teams organizational settings.