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Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions

By : Aaron Guilmette, Yura Lee, Grant Oliasani, Angel Aviles
Book Image

Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions

By: Aaron Guilmette, Yura Lee, Grant Oliasani, Angel Aviles

Overview of this book

Microsoft Teams is an invaluable tool that can integrate various Microsoft products into a single convenient hub. But making the most of it often requires expert help and hours spent on calls and live chats. If you’d rather have all the information you need to make the most of Teams in one place, then this book is for you. Written by two Microsoft technical specialists who have spent years helping clients find the best way to utilize Teams, this book will help you understand Teams as a whole — from architecture and collaboration through to apps and voice. You’ll study the platform from the perspective of the end user as well as the administrator, gaining insights and learning from real-life examples. You’ll tackle adopting, implementing, and administering Teams efficiently, which will help you realize its full potential. From setup and deployment to modernizing your organization’s chat and voice infrastructure, you’ll get plenty of useful and actionable tips as you progress. By the end of your journey through this book, you’ll be able to design and implement the most important and exciting aspects of Microsoft Teams help your organization work more efficiently.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Part 1: Collaboration and Apps
Free Chapter
2
Chapter 1: Taking a Tour of Microsoft Teams
6
Part 2: Meetings
10
Part 3: Bots and Development
14
Part 4: Voice
19
Part 5: Administration

Configuring E911

Microsoft Teams supports Enhanced 911 (E911). Teams offers both static and Dynamic E911 support. New capabilities, such as Dynamic E911 for US Work From Home, allow users to enter address information for E911 location services when they are outside of a defined office.

At a high level, you must complete the following steps to enable E911:

  1. Define your organization's external IP addresses or address ranges and add them as trusted IPs to identify your corporate network boundaries.
  2. Identify and define emergency addresses for the sites in your organization.
  3. Choose which identifiers are going to be used to provide specificity to your emergency location sites. Valid identifiers include subnets, switch ports, MAC addresses, or Wireless Access Points (WAPs).
  4. Create and assign emergency policies to enable additional notifications for groups, such as your corporate security desk, when an emergency call is placed.
  5. Assign your emergency policies...