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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

Configuring guest users and permissions for Microsoft Teams

With Microsoft Teams, your core users are the people within your organization who have a licensed Microsoft 365 account. However, it is also possible to grant access to people who are not members of your organization, and who do not have access to your Microsoft 365 tenant from a school or work account. Typical examples of this would be partner organizations, suppliers, vendors, and customers.

To grant such access to Teams, we need to set up guest user access. An invited guest user can be provided with access to your Microsoft Teams environment in order to participate in chats, access documents in channels, and even use the applications that you have made available within Teams. Although this feature is not automatically enabled at the time of writing, Microsoft have announced that they plan to enable guest access for all Microsoft 365 tenants in the near future.

In order for a guest to be granted access, they must meet...