The Managing Microsoft Teams course is designed for persons who are aspiring to the Microsoft 365 Teams Admin role. A Microsoft Teams administrator plans, deploys, configures, and manages Microsoft Teams to focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in a Microsoft 365 environment. In this course, you will learn about various Teams management tools, security and compliance feature for Teams, network requirement for Teams deployment as well as different Teams settings and policies for managing collaboration and communication experience in Teams.

Explore Microsoft Teams

Learn about Microsoft Teams capabilities, including Teams core workloads and integration with other Microsoft services and platforms. Understand the Teams architecture and Teams certified solutions.

• Explore capabilities in Microsoft Teams
• Explore Copilot capabilities in Microsoft Teams
• Explore Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft 365
• Explore Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft Power Platform
• Illustrate Microsoft Teams architecture
• Describe Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365 Groups
• Describe Microsoft Teams with SharePoint and OneDrive
• Describe Microsoft Teams with Exchange
• Understand Microsoft Teams certified solutions

Plan and deploy Microsoft Teams

Learn how to plan and deploy Microsoft Teams to your organization, including different Teams admin roles, available management tools, and processes to rollout Teams. Understand required licensing and how to deploy Teams clients.

• Designate Teams admin roles
• Understand Teams management tools
• Plan for Teams rollout
• Plan for Teams adoption
• Plan for Teams licensing
• Clients for Microsoft Teams

Implement lifecycle management and governance for Microsoft Teams

Learn about Teams lifecycle management and governance, including different features to govern Microsoft 365 Groups, ways to assign Teams policies, Teams preview features controls.

• Plan for lifecycle management
• Plan for Teams governance
• Manage Microsoft 365 Groups creation
• Configure Microsoft 365 Groups expiration policy
• Configure Microsoft 365 Groups naming policy
• Plan policy assignment for users and groups
• Create and manage policy packages
• Manage Teams preview features using Teams update policies
• Create and manage teams templates and template policies

Monitor your Microsoft Teams environment

Learn about different reports and dashboards to monitor your Teams environment, including Microsoft 365 and Teams usage reports, Microsoft Adoption Score, Microsoft Entra ID, access reviews, and Microsoft 365 network connectivity dashboard.

• Monitor Microsoft Teams usage reports
• Monitor Microsoft 365 usage reports
• Interpret Microsoft Adoption Score
• Manage user access with Microsoft Entra access reviews
• Monitor the Microsoft 365 network connectivity dashboard
• Manage Teams notifications and alerts
• Manage feedback policies

Manage access for external users

Work with external users in Teams and the access controls from different places, including Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Teams, and SharePoint admin centers.

• Understand features in Microsoft Entra ID
• Work with external users in Microsoft Teams
• Manage access for external users
• Manage external collaboration in Microsoft Entra ID
• Manage external collaboration in Microsoft 365
• Manage external access in Microsoft Teams
• Manage guest access in Microsoft Teams
• Manage file sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive

Implement security for Microsoft Teams

Learn about different security capabilities for Microsoft Teams, including Conditional Access, multifactor authentication, Safe Attachments, Safe Links, and Defender for Cloud Apps.

• Configure conditional access and multifactor authentication for Microsoft Teams
• Configure Safe Attachments for Microsoft Teams
• Configure Safe Links for Microsoft Teams
• Examine the Defender for Cloud Apps
• Monitor security reports for Microsoft Teams
• Plan and configure enhanced encryption policies

Implement compliance for Microsoft Teams

Learn about different compliance capabilities for Microsoft Teams, including sensitivity labels, retention policies, DLP policies, communication compliance, and information barrier policy.

• Create and manage sensitivity labels
• Create and manage retention policies
• Create and manage Data Loss Prevention policies
• Deploy communication compliance
• Enable scoped directory search
• Create information barrier policy
• Create security and compliance alerts for Microsoft Teams

Plan and configure network settings for Microsoft Teams

Learn about the network requirements for Microsoft Teams and associated settings, including Network Planner, Quality of Service (QoS), configuration for location-enhanced reports, and Microsoft 365 network connectivity test tool.

• Examine network requirements for Microsoft Teams
• Plan for network deployment using Network Planner
• Configure network ports and protocols for Microsoft Teams
• Implement Quality of Service
• Configure reporting labels for location-enhanced Call Analytics reports
• Configure tenant data for Call Quality Dashboard reports
• Assess network readiness
• Manage network topology

Create and manage teams

Learn about creating teams from various approaches and managing teams' settings and membership. You'll also learn how to archive, restore, and delete a team.

• Create teams
• Create a team from existing resources
• Plan and create org-wide teams
• Manage teams
• Manage users in a team
• Configure dynamic membership
• Archive restore and delete a team

Manage collaboration experiences for chat and channels

Manage collaboration experiences for chat and channels

• Create and manage channels in a team
• Create and manage Teams policies for channels
• Configure teams settings
• Create and manage messaging policies
• Manage channel moderation
• Manage access to channels

Manage apps for Microsoft Teams

Learn about different settings and policies to manage Teams apps, including which apps are allowed to install, which apps are pinned to users' app bar, and whether users can upload custom apps.

• Explore apps in Microsoft Teams
• Describe admin settings for Teams apps
• Manage access to Teams apps at the organization level
• Create and manage app permission policies
• Create and manage app setup policies
• Manage permissions and consent for Teams apps
• Plan and configure connectors
• Manage custom apps uploads
• Publish custom apps to Microsoft Teams
• Manage purchasing of apps in the Microsoft Teams app store
• Customize the organization's app store
• Customize the branded experience of an app
• Customize the branded experience of an app

Introduction to Teams meetings and calling

Introduction to Teams meetings and calling

• Overview of Teams meetings and events
• Overview of Teams Phone
• Overview of auto attendants and call queues
• Overview of Teams devices
• Overview of Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams calling, meetings, and devices
• Summary and resources

Manage meetings and events experiences

Learn about different meeting solutions in Microsoft Teams, various settings and policies for Teams meetings and live events, and configuration for Audio Conferencing.

• Explore meetings and events in Microsoft Teams
• Configure meeting settings
• Create and manage meeting policies
• Configure audio conferencing
• Create and manage meeting templates and template policies
• Create and manage meetings customization policies
• Configure live events settings
• Create and manage live events policies
• Examine live events across Microsoft 365

Plan for Microsoft Teams Rooms and Surface Hub

Plan for Microsoft Teams Rooms and Surface Hub

• Determine license requirements for Microsoft Teams Rooms and shared devices
• Understand differences between Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android and Windows
• Understand Microsoft Teams Rooms on Surface Hub 2S
• Understand and plan Teams Room accessories, components, and peripherals
• Understand Teams Rooms management options
• Summary and resources

Configure, deploy, and manage Teams devices

Teams devices provide a familiar experience and are essential for a hybrid workspace. Learn how to provision and manage devices, and associated device accounts.

• Manage Microsoft Teams Phones
• Manage Microsoft Teams Room Systems
• Microsoft Teams Rooms management options
• Manage Surface Hub 2S devices
• Configure Microsoft Teams SIP gateway
• Manage Microsoft Teams displays
• Remote provisioning and sign in for Teams Phones
• Update Microsoft Teams devices remotely
• Manage Microsoft Teams device tags

Plan for Teams Phone

Learn about Microsoft Teams Phone and what is needed to make and receive phone calls, plan for Teams Phone devices, features, and cloud voicemail.

• Plan to deploy Teams Phone
• Plan for Teams Phone PSTN connectivity
• Determine license requirements
• Plan for Teams Phone devices
• Plan and design Teams Phone features
• Plan for voicemail
• Summary and resources

Configure and deploy Teams Phone

Teams Phone requires some configuration before users can make calls, receive calls, and use all the features. Microsoft Calling plans or Operator Connect for your PSTN must be configured before phone numbers can be assigned to users.

• Configure emergency calling for Teams Calling Plans
• Manage and configure Microsoft PSTN numbers
• Configure Operator Connect and Teams Phone Mobile
• Configure Teams Phone policies
• Create and manage Teams policies
• Summary and resources

Configure and manage voice users

Ongoing management is required as new employees start, or if their needs change. Learn how to manage voice user configuration, including enabling voice services and adjusting voice configuration.

• Enable users for Teams Phone
• Enable users for Direct Routing with Teams Phone
• Enable additional calling features for Teams Phone
• Enable users for Teams Phone Mobile

Configure auto attendants and call queues

Understand how auto attendants and call queues in Microsoft Teams can interact with callers to ensure they're connected your agents as quickly as possible. You'll also learn how to set up auto attendants and call queues.

• Design call flows for auto attendants and call queues
• Configure auto attendants and call queues
• Deploy a channel-based call queue
• Configure resource accounts
• Configure Microsoft 365 groups for voicemail
• Interpret call queue conference modes
• Interpret call queue routing methods
• Configure holidays for auto attendants and call queues
• Configure custom music on hold
• Summary and resources

Troubleshoot audio, video, and client issues

Learn about the troubleshooting approaches for audio, video, and client issues in Teams, including collecting appropriate logs and identifying problems with different reports and dashboards.

• Troubleshoot Teams
• Collect and identify logs
• Clear Microsoft Teams client cache
• Identify issues with call analytics
• Identify issues with Call Quality Dashboard
• Use Power BI to analyze Call Quality Dashboard data
• Identify issues with the Direct Routing Health Dashboard

This course combines deep technical expertise with hands-on, instructor-led training, helping you transform knowledge into practical, real-world skills that last.

Students in this course are interested in Microsoft Teams or in passing the Microsoft Teams Administrator Associate certification exam. A Microsoft Teams administrator plans, deploys, configures, and manages Microsoft Teams to focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in a Microsoft 365 environment. A Microsoft Teams administrator must be able to plan, deploy, and manage teams, chat, apps, channels, meetings, audio/video conferencing, live events, calling, and Teams certified devices. A Microsoft Teams administrator has experience integrating Microsoft Teams with SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Microsoft 365 Groups, and other Microsoft, third-party, and custom apps. A Microsoft Teams administrator understands and collaborates with other workloads and roles, such as Network, Voice, Identity, Access, Devices, Licensing, Security, Compliance, Information management, and User Adoption.