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Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions

By : Aaron Guilmette, Yura Lee, Grant Oliasani, Angel Aviles
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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

Security

From a security standpoint, governance may dictate several things, such as procedures for assigning or removing permissions to/from resources, types of approved authentication protocols, or how content is secured outside of an organization. In this section, we're going to look at the governance surrounding the following topics:

  • Identity and authentication
  • Sharing and access controls
  • Classification
  • Approved apps

Let's dive deeper into these areas.

Identity and authentication

As you're well aware, Azure AD identity is the security foundation for everything in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The Azure AD identity platform has five general identity models that govern how your organization's users are provisioned and authenticated. They are as follows:

  • Cloud-only identity: User identities for Microsoft 365 services exist only in Azure AD. Users may have on-premises identities as well, but they are maintained separately....