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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

Creating a team from an existing M365 group

Creating a new team from scratch creates a new Microsoft 365 group that helps power its membership from the backend. However, you may already have a Microsoft 365 group if you first had a SharePoint Online site, Planner plan, Stream channel, and so on that used a Microsoft 365 group. Rather than duplicating the groups and doubling your membership management, you can create a team using a pre-existing Microsoft 365 group.

One option for doing this is via a pre-existing SharePoint Online site. Users are presented with a banner message encouraging them to create a team for their site if the site was created in SharePoint (and not as a result of a team being created first). To create a team from a SharePoint Online site, look for this banner message in the lower left-hand corner of a SharePoint Online site that resembles what's shown in Figure 12.4:

Figure 12.4 – The Microsoft Teams message for team creation...