Thank you for attending my Taming Teams Enterprise Connect session. Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or email me if you are looking to get more from Microsoft Teams.
We help organizations plan and execute to maximize the value of their investments in Microsoft Teams and associated technologies.
We help vendors better understand and participate in the Microsoft collaboration and communication ecosystem.
Below is a curated list of detailed information I mentioned during my presentation. We hope this might help you on your journey.
Recommended Microsoft Sites
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/teams
Relevant Articles
2022: The Year Microsoft Teams Becomes Hyperconnected
Taming Teams: Making Good Calls
Taming Teams for Distributed Work (30 minute video session)
Price and Capabilities of Microsoft 365 Both Increase
What Does the Recent Growth of Microsoft Teams Tell Us?
Moving to Teams: Upgrade Paths Untangled
Don't Overthink Your Teams Deployment
Skype for Business - Improving User Experience and Voice Quality
Office Origami Video Series - getting the most from your existing technology
Office Origami: Using Microsoft Forms
Office Origami: Keeping Track of What You Need to Do
Office Origami: Making Meetings More Effective
Office Origami: Best Practices for Improving Video Meetings
Turbocharging Teams Video Series
Episode 1: Teams and Channels
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Understanding the different types of teams and channels and the various options is important to setup effective collaboration
Episode 2: Meaningful messaging
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How to use Teams to get your point across effectively, notify without annoying, draw attention to items requiring action
Episode 3: Analytics for All
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How the analytics available directly in Teams can help you track and encourage usage and adoption
Episode 4: Admin analytics for The Win
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For IT pros, understanding Teams usage, adoption, quality, reliability and user satisfaction helps you be more successful
Episode 5: Keeping up with What is New
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With new Teams features seeming to be introduced weekly, how do you as an IT professional--or end user--keep up
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Discuss Roadmap, User Voice (which is going away), O365 Admin notifications, Help-->What's new in client
What's New and What's Coming for Teams
Microsoft Teams Roadmap
BC Strategies Content - I'm one of the BCStrategies Experts
All the Expert sessions at Enterprise Connect 2021
Turbocharging Teams - video tips and tricks for Microsoft Teams
Other great Enterprise Connect sessions, from my BC Strategies colleagues
Turbocharging Teams: New Teams meeting enhancements (July 2020)
Third anniversary Teams edition:
- Jared Spataro article
- Marissa Salazar article
Working from home
Information from Microsoft
Update #2 from Microsoft on cloud services continuity (March 29, 2020)
PowerShell Training Materials
Manage Office 365 with Office 365 PowerShell
Manage user accounts, licenses, and groups with Office 365 PowerShell
LinkedIn Learning: PowerShell courses
Pluralsight - PowerShell: Getting Started
(Note that several of the Pluralsight PowerShell courses are out of date, for example “PowerShell for Office 365” is from 2015 and only talks about Skype for Business Online and not Teams)
Pluralsight - PowerShell and Regular Expressions (regular expressions are key to automating many routines for a large number of users)
Pluralsight - PowerShell Playbook: Office 365
Office 365 Administration Training Materials
Manage team collaboration with Microsoft Teams
Upgrade to Microsoft Teams (some of the hybrid information may not be applicable)
Configure and Manage OneDrive and Teams
Managing Microsoft Teams users
Overall list of Microsoft Teams training
Review and read the “Softchoice Teams Managed Service Run Book”
LinkedIn Learning: Microsoft Office 365: Administration (2019)
All LinkedIn Learning for Office 365 Admin
Pluralsight - Starting Your Journey with Office 365 Administration
Pluralsight - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Office 365 Availability and Usage
Books: Understanding Microsoft Teams Administration: Configure, Customize, and Manage the Teams Experience (pre-order, available September 2020)
Certifications:
Microsoft Office Specialist: Expert (Office 365 and Office 2019)
Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate
Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator Associate
Teams Voice Training Materials
Cloud Voice in Microsoft Teams
Configure Direct Routing documentation
Certifications:
Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate
Session Border Controller Training Materials
AudioCodes Direct Routing deployment documentation
Ribbon Direct Routing deployment documentation
Analytics Training Materials
Microsoft provided Excel training courses
LinkedIn Learning: Managing and Analyzing Data in Excel (Office 365/Excel 2019)
General list of LinkedIn Learning Excel courses
Certifications:
Microsoft Office Specialist: Microsoft Excel Expert (Excel and Excel 2019)
Office 365 Training Materials
Microsoft 365 Fundamentals (includes materials on Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility that are not directly relevant)
LinkedIn Learning for Office 365
Microsoft Teams Essential Training
Microsoft Teams video training
Hands-on training for Office 365 and Teams
Pluralsight - Microsoft Teams (2019)
Certifications:
Variety related to different workloads in Office 365
Thinking farther ahead
Workplace analytics - an organization-wide version of MyAnalytics. Uses Office Graph data to identify collaboration patterns that impact productivity, workforce effectiveness, and employee engagement.