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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

Optimizing your Teams media configuration using QoS

QoS is a process that allows network traffic that may be sensitive to delay (such as Teams voice and video calls or meetings), to "jump the queue" ahead of less critical traffic. In Microsoft Teams, QoS can be configured via the Teams admin center, and in conjunction with Group Policy objects using a routing principle known as Port-based Access Control. This essentially allows you to dedicate part of your network bandwidth to critical Teams functions such as voice and video.

When should you implement QoS?

You should consider implementing QoS for Teams if you are encountering any of the following issues:

  • Packet loss – packets getting dropped. You may encounter poor voice quality.
  • Jitter – with Jitter, packet fluctuations may result in a break in voice fluidity during calls.
  • Delayed round-trip time – packets taking too long to reach their destination, meaning delays encountered in...