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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

Technical requirements

Before we get started, we'll need to understand the requirements of Approvals in Microsoft Teams. Approvals in Teams requires specific licensing and access to the Microsoft Dataverse (previously known as the Common Data Service).

Let's review the overall requirements:

  • Permissions to create a Microsoft Dataverse database (if it's the first time anyone in your tenant is creating an approval)

    Restricted Permissions Note

    If your organization has restricted permissions based on a least-privilege model, the first user to attempt to use approvals may be unable to instantiate the database. If this is the case, an administrator will need to follow the steps located at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/create-environment#create-an-environment-with-a-database to create the environment and database. If you are attempting to create a Dataverse database in the GCC environment, you will need to open a support ticket.

  • A license...