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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

Managing room scheduling

Microsoft Teams Rooms relies on the underlying Exchange Online or Exchange Server infrastructure for its scheduling operations. To help users get the most out of the Teams Meeting Rooms resources (or rooms in general), you can configure room lists and resource booking options.

First, we'll look at room lists.

Room locations and lists

Room lists are special Exchange distribution groups that are used to contain room resources (whether they are Microsoft Teams Rooms or standard conference rooms). From inside the Teams client, room lists are displayed in the Location field, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.1 – Room lists displayed in the Location textbox

Configuring a room list is much like configuring a distribution list and can be accomplished with the same steps in either Exchange Online or Exchange Server environments. If you do not create room lists, you'll have a default view called Available...