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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

Licensing

A Microsoft Teams Room requires three things to be successful:

  • A license
  • A resource account
  • A device

First, we'll look at the type of licensing requirements for Microsoft Teams Rooms.

Licensing requirements

Like most things in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, an MTR system requires a license.

Microsoft has created two SKUs targeted at licensing meeting room configurations: Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard and Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium. The features that are available for each license are shown in the following table:

Table 6.1 – Microsoft Teams Rooms licenses and features

As shown in the preceding table, the only real difference is that the Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium license includes a Microsoft-managed service. This managed service offers the following features:

Table 6.2 – Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium features

The managed service offering is targeted at IT professionals...