Microsoft Teams for Administrators

Meet Patrick Llona, your instructor, with over 20 years in IT and extensive Teams administration experience. He shares practical guidance on using Teams for internal communication and client meetings.

Explore Microsoft Teams from an administrator's view, focusing on creating and managing teams, settings and policies, and using the Teams admin center and PowerShell, with integration to Exchange and SharePoint.

Explore an overview of Microsoft Teams, including what it is, what it does, and how it integrates with the rest of the Office 365 services.

Explore how Microsoft Teams unites the Office 365 suite for real-time communication, collaboration, file coauthoring, and secure sharing inside and outside your organization.

Explore how Microsoft 365 integrates with Teams—Outlook scheduling, real-time status, and in-teams editing of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote, with SharePoint and OneDrive storage.

Explore how Teams integrates with Outlook and Exchange Online to email, start meetings, and manage calendars, with SharePoint access, forms and surveys, and Planner tasks.

Explore the teams architecture and how Microsoft 365 groups enable collaboration with chat, channels, and a dedicated SharePoint Online document library, plus dependencies on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive.

Understand how teams use SharePoint Online and OneDrive for storage, with OneDrive as a specialized library within SharePoint, and learn site structure, channels, and permissions.

Explore examining teams sites in SharePoint Online and the admin center, review activity, storage usage, and permissions, and manage owners, members, and sharing settings.

shows how Microsoft 365 groups include an Exchange mailbox, unlike distribution groups, enabling a centrally stored shared mailbox for emails, chat, channel messages, and meeting information.

Learn to create Office 365 groups and teams from the Microsoft 365 admin center, distinguish groups from distribution lists, and manage privacy and licenses.

Gain an overview of Teams management, including how to access, create, and modify teams, and configure settings and policies.

Licensing for Microsoft Teams is required, with core functionality included in all Microsoft 365 plans for education, business, enterprise, and developer; advanced features like dial-in telephony require an E5 plan.

Master Microsoft Teams administration using three tools—the Teams admin center, the PowerShell module, and the Teams client—leveraging role-based access control and admin roles to configure policies and permissions.

Learn to navigate Microsoft Teams management tools in the admin centers, manage policies, telephony, and licensing, and automate with PowerShell to create teams and channels.

Manage collaboration in teams by enabling effective communication among users and controlling their communication and collaboration with users outside the organization.

Discover how to create, modify, and delete policies in Microsoft Teams, including default and messaging policies, and apply centralized controls for discoverability, channel creation, and organization-wide teams.

Explore how to manage email integration in Microsoft Teams, including removing the email address, restricting delivery by members or domains, and configuring advanced policies for quick team updates.

Manage file sharing in Microsoft Teams by controlling chat sharing, conversation sharing, link sharing, and external sharing at team and policy levels via OneDrive and SharePoint admin centers.

Configure global and custom Teams policies and update settings, assign them to groups, set policy rank, and manage app permissions, email integration, and file sharing.

Explore additional policies in teams for administrators, including meeting and messaging policies governing live events settings and user features. Apply default or custom policies through the admin center or PowerShell.

Explore how to create and manage meeting policies and messaging policies in the Teams admin center, configuring who can join, schedule, record, and share content, with end-user settings.

Explore deploying and managing teams in your organization. See how Microsoft Teams for administrators enables these tasks.

Create teams using the admin center or the teams client, assign ownership to managers for consistent naming, and apply templates or existing resources like distribution lists turned into M365 groups.

Create and manage teams in the managed teams section, set names, descriptions, owners, visibility, and channels, then troubleshoot PowerShell commands and error messages to configure team profiles.

Explore the overview grid in the teams admin center to view teams, channels, members, owners, and guest privacy, then manage a team's profile to add or remove members and channels.

Configure external and guest access in Teams by managing allowed and blocked domains, and align SharePoint and OneDrive sharing settings through policies.

In this course, manage channels in teams by setting public, private, or organization-wide visibility, control access with organization settings, and govern discovery at policy or channel level.

Distinguish guest access from external access in Microsoft Teams, and learn how to grant permissions at individual, team, or domain levels using Azure AD, SharePoint, and OneDrive.

Learn to create and manage Microsoft Teams from an administrator's perspective, using web-based tools and Power Show, and explore integration with SharePoint, 365 groups, and OneDrive within Microsoft 365.