Understanding Microsoft Teams Administration: Configure, Customize, and Manage the Teams Experience

Product Description

Explore solutions, best practices, tips, and workarounds to plan, design, customize, implement, and manage Microsoft Teams in any environment. 
The book starts with an overview of Microsoft Teams where you will go through the teams architecture, teams/channels, audio/video meetings, and the phone system. It further dives into deployment and management of teams, clients, guests and external access, and live events, followed by network assessment and bandwidth planning for Teams. Here, you will learn about deployment of quality of service and how to configure your phone systems using direct routing and calling plans. Moving forward, you will learn Microsoft Teams administration and policy management along with the migration process of Skype for Business on-prem to Microsoft Teams. Towards the end, you will learn troubleshooting techniques in Teams for call quality issues and connectivity challenges. 
After reading Understanding Microsoft Teams Administration, you will be able to effectively configure, customize, and manage the Teams experience using the Teams admin portal and other tools and techniques. 
What You Will Learn

Understand the Microsoft Teams architecture including the different components involved
Enable and manage external and guest access for Teams users
Manage Teams and channels with a private channel
Implement quality of service for audio/video calls and meetings
Establish Office 365 data classifications, loss prevention plans, and governance
Manage resource types, licensing, service health reporting, and support
Work with Microsoft Teams room and live event management
Implement and manage messaging, calling policies, and settings

Who This Book 
Is 
For

Administrators and technical consultants working on Teams.

From the Back Cover

Explore solutions, best practices, tips, and workarounds to plan, design, customize, implement, and manage Microsoft Teams in any environment. 
The book starts with an overview of Microsoft Teams where you will go through the teams architecture, teams/channels, audio/video meetings, and the phone system. It further dives into deployment and management of teams, clients, guests and external access, and live events, followed by network assessment and bandwidth planning for Teams. Here, you will learn about deployment of quality of service and how to configure your phone systems using direct routing and calling plans. Moving forward, you will learn Microsoft Teams administration and policy management along with the migration process of Skype for Business on-prem to Microsoft Teams. Towards the end, you will learn troubleshooting techniques in Teams for call quality issues and connectivity challenges. 
After reading Understanding Microsoft Teams Administration, you will be able to effectively configure, customize, and manage the Teams experience using the Teams admin portal and other tools and techniques. 
You will:

Understand the Microsoft Teams architecture including the different components involved
Enable and manage external and guest access for Teams usersManage Teams and channels with a private channel
Implement quality of service for audio/video calls and meetings
Establish Office 365 data classifications, loss prevention plans, and governance
Manage resource types, licensing, service health reporting, and supportWork with Microsoft Teams room and live event management
Implement and manage messaging, calling policies, and settings

About the Author

Balu Ilag is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft 365 Certified Teams Administrator Associate, and Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) for communication and productivity. He has written several blog posts on unified communication and collaboration technologies including subjects ranging from a how-to guide to best practices and troubleshooting.
He is currently working as an Office 365 and collaboration specialist at Juniper networks. Balu has over 13 years’ experience in messa