Microsoft 365 Teams Administrator Associate Cert Prep (MS-700): Plan, Configure, and Deploy

Course details

Organizations around the world have adopted Microsoft Teams for its secure conferencing, chat, and collaboration features. Employers need certified administrators to deploy, manage, and monitor the platform. Luckily, to achieve the Microsoft Teams Administrator Associate certification, you only need to pass one exam: MS-700 Managing Microsoft Teams. This course, the first of a two-part series, helps you study for the MS-700 exam and learn best practices for planning and configuring Teams in an enterprise environment. Instructor Robert McMillen shows you how to prepare an upgrade path, plan for a successful deployment, and configure important settings. Robert goes over how to identify licensing requirements, set up access for users and groups, manage guest access, and create the roles, policies, and alerts necessary to secure your deployment. Finally, Robert teaches you how to manage Teams endpoints and monitor service usage and call quality to optimize your users' experiences.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Need to install and secure your Microsoft Teams sessions

1. Upgrade from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams

02 - Introduction to Teams admin center
03 - Configure coexistence mode for the organization and user

2. Plan and Configure Network Settings for Microsoft Teams

04 - Plan for successful network deployment - Network Planner
05 - Bandwidth capacity - Voice, video, meetings, live events
06 - Assess and troubleshoot network readiness
07 - Configure network ports and protocols used by Teams client
08 - Configure media optimizations by using QoS
09 - Configure and manage locations

3. Identify Licensing Requirements for Microsoft Teams

10 - Required licensing for compliance features
11 - Appropriate licensing for guest access
12 - Appropriate licensing - Calls, phone system, resource account
13 - Appropriate licensing for Teams Rooms, common area phones
14 - Appropriate licensing for apps in Teams

4. Governance and Life-Cycle Management for Microsoft Teams

15 - Plan policy assignment for users and groups
16 - Create team templates
17 - Set up policies for Office 365 Groups creation
18 - Configure Office 365 Groups - Classifications, expiration policy, naming policy
19 - Archive, unarchive, restore, and delete a team
20 - Configure and manage app policies
21 - Perform bulk user operations with PowerShell
22 - How to add a Team from scratch

5. Configure and Manage Guest Access

23 - Configure guest users, prevent users from adding guests
24 - Configure permissions for Teams
25 - Configure guest and external access for Teams
26 - Remove guests from a team organization or Azure AD

6. Manage Security and Compliance

27 - Assign Microsoft Teams admin roles
28 - Plan threat policies
29 - Creating and managing retention policies
30 - Plan for conditional access and MFA for Teams
31 - Create security and compliance alerts for Microsoft Teams
32 - Create an information barrier policy
33 - Creating sensitivity labels

7. Deploy and Manage Microsoft Teams Endpoints

34 - Deploy Teams clients to Windows and mobile devices
35 - Manage configuration profiles
36 - Manage Microsoft Teams device tags

8. Monitor and Analyze Service Usage

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

Conclusion

42 - Next steps