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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

Audio Conferencing in Microsoft Teams

You can call in to your Teams meetings by leveraging the Audio Conferencing feature in Microsoft Teams. For instance, if you are away from your computer but need to listen in on a meeting, you can call in using your mobile device.

If the meeting organizer has an Audio Conferencing license, each meeting created by that organizer will have call-in information attached to the meeting invite. The call-in information contains the phone number for a conference bridge and a conference ID number. A typical Teams meeting invite with the Audio Conferencing capability enabled will look like this:

Figure 5.26 – A Teams meeting invite with Audio Conferencing details

With this, you can join a Teams meeting directly with your Teams app or you can call into the meeting with voice-only capabilities. For example, you can use the number starting with +1 872 with your mobile device, provide the conference ID information (which will...