M365 / Microsoft Teams – Introduction to Microsoft Teams – for beginners / Administrators (help to prepare interviews and respective certifications) – Part 1

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What is Microsoft Team

• Microsoft Teams is hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365
• Teams is a chat-based workspace
• With Microsoft Teams we can do chatting, meetings, calling and lots of other features which we will explore in upcoming articles
• We can launch Teams from Office 365 apps as

• Microsoft Teams has its own URL – https://teams.microsoft.com/

• We could log in to Teams with our M365 account

What are Teams

• A Team is nothing but SharePoint site behind the scene
• A team contains group of uses, content (documents, wikis, images, public / private chat, calendar, meeting details and so on)
• Teams are a collection of people, content, and tools surrounding different projects and outcomes within an organization
• There are private team, public team and Org-wide Team
  • Private Team : In private team only invited users have access
  • Public Team : Any user from the organization can join the team
  • Org-wide Team : Every use from our organization joins automatically

• Teams is built on Microsoft 365 groups, Microsoft Graph, and security, compliance and manageability of Microsoft 365

What are channels

• Channels are dedicated sections within a team that keep conversations organized by specific topics, projects, or disciplines
• When we create a new Team default “General” channel is created as in below Fig

• In Posts section of our channel, team members can do conversations
• File can be uploaded / shared under Files tab. These files are stored in SharePoint
• Each channel has separate folder in document library of SharePoint site
• We can extend channels with apps, bots, tabs, connectors and so on

What is Microsoft 365 Group

• Microsoft 365 Groups is the membership service of Microsoft 365
• With Microsoft 365 Groups, you can give a group of people access to a collection of shared resources as
  • A shared Outlook inbox
  • A shared Calendar
  • A SharePoint document library
  • A Planner
  • A Onenote notebook
  • Power BI
  • Yammer –  if the group was created from Yammer
  • A Team – if the group was created from Teams
  • A Roadmap – if we have project for the web
  • Stream

• With Microsoft 365 group we don’t need to give permissions separately to above resources. When we add users to the group it automatically gives the permission to the respective resources
• When we create a M365 group in SharePoint or in Outlook, group is visible in Outlook
• When Team in Teams is created by default M365 group is hidden in Outlook but with PowerShell we can make it visible

How Teams are related with Microsoft Group

• When we create Team, Microsoft 365 group is created to manage team members
• The group related services are also created like SharePoint Team site
• If we remove a member of team, they are removed from Microsoft 365 Group as well
• If we remove a member from Group, user will be removed from the Team and Channel

How does Teams supports Managed Identities

• Teams supports all identity models that are available with Microsoft 365
• Teams leverages identities stored in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
• Team uses three identity models
  • Cloud Identity – User is created and managed in Microsoft 365 and stored in Azure AD
  • Synchronized Identity – User identity is managed in On-Premises server
  • Federated Identity – requires a synchronized identity where user password is verified by on-premises identity provider like ADFS

Which regions Teams support to store data

• Teams store data in geographic region associated with our Tenant
• Currently, Team supports the Australia, Canada, France, India, South Africa, South Korea, United Kingdom, Americas, APAC and EMEA regions

Which are the Team Management Tools

• GUI Tools
  • Microsoft Teams admin center
  • Azure Active Directory admin center
  • Microsoft 365 admin center
  • Microsoft 365 security center and compliance center
• Command-line and automation tools
  • PowerShell, for configuration and limited lifecycle management
  • Graph API, for lifecycle management

I’ll stop here 🙂 In next upcoming articles I’ll share more about Microsoft Teams, M365 Groups.

We will have other very good team articles, to know more about teams kindly please have a look – https://knowledge-junction.in/?s=Teams

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