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Managing Microsoft Teams: MS-700 Exam Guide

By : Peter Rising, Nate Chamberlain
Book Image

Managing Microsoft Teams: MS-700 Exam Guide

By: Peter Rising, Nate Chamberlain

Overview of this book

Do you want to build and test your proficiency in the deployment, management, and monitoring of Microsoft Teams features within the Microsoft 365 platform? Managing Microsoft Teams: MS-700 Exam Guide will help you to effectively plan and implement Microsoft Teams using the Microsoft 365 Teams admin center and Windows PowerShell. You’ll also discover best practices for rolling out and managing MS services for Teams users within your Microsoft 365 tenant. The chapters are divided into three easy-to-follow parts: planning and design, feature policies and administration, and team management, while aligning with the official MS-700 exam objectives to help you prepare effectively for the exam. The book starts by taking you through planning and design, where you’ll learn how to plan migrations, make assessments for network readiness, and plan and implement governance tasks such as configuring guest access and monitoring usage. Later, you’ll understand feature administration, focusing on collaboration, meetings, live events, phone numbers, and the phone system, along with applicable policy configurations. Finally, the book shows you how to manage Teams and membership settings and create app policies. By the end of this book, you'll have learned everything you need to pass the MS-700 certification exam and have a handy reference guide for MS Teams.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Section 1: Planning and Designing Your Microsoft Teams Deployment
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Section 2: Administering the Meeting, Calling, and Chat Features within Microsoft Teams
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Section 3: Planning, Deploying, and Managing Policies for Microsoft Teams, and Apps within Teams
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Section 4: Mock Exams and Assessments
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Chapter 16: Mock Exam Answers

Managing Teams' channels and private channel creation

In this section, we're going to cover management of Teams channels, but also policies that enable or disable your team owners' ability to create private channels.

Microsoft Teams channels allow for a team's separation of conversations and collaboration activities by task, subgroup, product, topic, and so on. Each team channel has a Files tab that mirrors a folder sharing the channel's name in a document library on the team's affiliated SharePoint Online site collection. If you had six channels in a team, there would be six folders in the affiliated site's document library, for example.

Each channel always has its own conversation thread, its own unique set of tabs along the top, and some channels can also be private, with a unique subset of members from the parent team.

To see all the channels in an existing team via the client, look in the Team's settings (click the ellipsis next...