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Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions

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

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

Enabling hybrid features

In this section, we're going to review the key settings to ensure the environment is prepared. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

  • Verifying your domains
  • Updating your on-premises user principal names
  • Configuring Azure Active Directory Connect
  • Running the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard
  • Verifying Teams integration
  • Assigning licenses
  • Reviewing manual configuration steps

After performing these steps, an on-premises mailbox user should be able to use the Teams application to query on-premises free/busy times and schedule a meeting.

Verifying your domains

To enable a hybrid experience, you'll need to configure your Microsoft 365 tenant to use the same Domain Name System (DNS) namespace as your on-premises email domains. To do this, you must add your domain to Microsoft 365. Microsoft 365 generates a code that you add as a text (TXT) record to your organization's public DNS. This proves...