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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
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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

Chapter 7: Live Events

Live events are a type of meeting in which you can stream video and meeting content to a large virtual or online audience of up to 10,000 people. They are specifically a one-to-many mode of communication in which the host of the organization is doing all the presenting, and the audience's primary participation is to listen and/or watch only. Microsoft's version of this is Teams Live Events. If you are familiar with Skype Meeting Broadcast, this is Microsoft's Teams flavor of exactly that.

In this chapter, we will explore Live Events as a webinar type of Teams meeting. We will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing Microsoft Teams Live Events
  • Scheduling a live event
  • Presenting and sharing content
  • Sharing invitations
  • External production (RTMP)

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to explain how Live Events can be useful in webinar-type situations. You will also be able to successfully schedule and conduct...