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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

Administration of Approvals app

As we discussed earlier, the Approvals app utilizes Dataverse (formerly known as the Common Data Service). Approvals content (depending on the data type and fields) is stored in a combination of places – Dataverse and Microsoft Forms.

Approvals templates that you may create are stored in an area called Substrate Data Storage (SDS), either in the tenant shard (organization templates) or groups shard (team templates). Deleting a team will delete the associated templates. The first time an administrator creates an org-wide template, a new team will be provisioned.

In the following sections, we'll look at using org-wide settings, as well as permissions policies, to manage access to the Approvals app.

Using org-wide app settings to manage the Approvals app

As an administrator, you can control who has access to the Approvals app by enabling or disabling the Teams app globally or by using the Teams app's permissions policies.

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