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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

External production

Live events can have a professional, production-grade feel if you bring in external encoders to produce the event. Encoders are either software or hardware that is used with professional recording audio and video equipment. Encoders output a Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP or RTMPS over SSL). RTMPS is a specific protocol for streaming audio, video, and data over the internet with a persistent connection. Ultimately, it is designed to deliver smooth video and audio quality during broadcasts over the internet.

Whenever you have an external encoder for a live event through Teams, Yammer, or Stream, Stream will be the service that produces the event. Stream supports both hardware and software-based encoders. Microsoft published a document listing previously tested encoders: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/live-encoder-setup.

To use Stream and leverage external encoders, you should make sure the right users are allowed to create live events in Stream...