M365 / Microsoft Teams – Introduction to Microsoft Teams – for beginners / Administrators – Part 2 – Teams management tools – Study guide for MS – 700

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On Knowledge Junction we are starting exploring Microsoft Teams from scratch. We have our last article – M365 / Microsoft Teams – Introduction to Microsoft Teams – for beginners / Administrators (help to prepare interviews and respective certifications) – Part 1

These articles will also help to prepare exam – Microsoft Team Administration – MS – 700

Today, we will have another article on Microsoft Teams, in this article we will discuss few Teams management tools

Team Management includes :

1. Adding / Creating new Teams
2. Editing existing Teams
3. Archive / UArchive Teams
4. Deleting Teams

Rights / Permissions required for managing Teams : Either Global Administrator or Teams Service Administrator role

There are two types of management tools for Teams administrators:

1. GUI Tools
2. Command-line and automation tools

GUI Tools :

• Microsoft Teams admin center https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/dashboard

• Azure Active Directory admin center https://aad.portal.azure.com/
• Microsoft 365 admin center https://admin.microsoft.com/
  • We can control Organization level settings for Teams from Microsoft 365 admin center
  • Navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center >> Settings >> Org settings >> Microsoft Teams
  • Settings like
    • Turning on Microsoft Teams for all users and
    • Allow guest access in Teams

Command-line and automation tools :

• PowerShell, for configuration and limited lifecycle management
  • PowerShell is a shell and scripting language that helps administrators and power users rapidly automate management tasks from a command line
  • Administrators can use PowerShell to manage settings, configuration, and policy in Teams
  • The PowerShell controls for managing Teams are found in two different PowerShell modules:
    • the Skype for Business PowerShell module –
      • contains the cmdlets to manage policies, configurations, and other Teams tools
      • Skype for Business Online Connector is currently part of the latest Teams PowerShell module – MicrosoftTeams.
      • If we are using the latest Teams PowerShell public release, we don’t need to install the Skype for Business Online Connector
    • the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module – MicrosoftTeams
      • contains all the cmdlets to create and manage teams
      • Microsoft Teams PowerShell module is currently supported for use with PowerShell 5.1 on Windows
      • If we are on Windows 10 version 1607 or higher, we already have PowerShell 5.1 installed
      • We could install Microsoft Teams PowerShell module “MicrosoftTeams” as

Install-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams -Force -AllowClobber

• Graph API, for Teams lifecycle management
  • We have very good series of articles on Microsoft Graph – kindly please have a look once – https://knowledge-junction.in/?s=Microsoft+Graph

We have other very good series of articles on Microsoft Teams please have a look – https://knowledge-junction.in/category/technology-articles/m365/microsoft-teams/

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