MCA Microsoft 365 Teams Administrator Study Guide. Ben Lee

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FIGURE 1.7 Settings

      While there is much more to explore in Teams, this section gave you enough of an idea of the basics to start using your own Teams tenant later in the book.

Accessing Teams

      To familiarize yourself with how Teams works behind the scenes, and for the exercises that we are going to cover in this book, it is important you have access to a real Teams deployment where you can experiment. While you may have access to an O365 tenant through your company, it is probably not a good idea to be testing things in an environment that has live users on it.

Ideally, you will have access to an environment with a few test users and E3 licensing to make sure the majority of features are available. Depending on your circumstances you might have the following options available to you:

      O365 E3 Trial

      Microsoft does offer trial subscriptions for E3 (and E5, which is harder to find) from the E3 product overview page at microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/office-365-e3. You will be asked to enter some signup information but shouldn't need to enter any payment details unless you want to convert the trial into a full subscription. This trial should last for 30 days and let you have access to 25 licenses.

      Customer Immersion Experience

      If you work for a Microsoft Partner, you may have access to the Microsoft Partner demo site available at demos.microsoft.com. Here you can access temporary environments with full E5 licensing. These are intended for use by a partner organization to help run proof of concepts with their customers; however, you may also be able to use one for your own testing. After the trial period has expired, the tenant is deleted and reset. These environments can last for 90+ days.

      Fully Paid E3

      If you have the funds, or perhaps your company will support the expense as part of its training budget, you can sign up for a full-blown E3 tenant of your own. Be aware that this requires a full payment of a year up front.

Using Teams as Part of O365

O365 is a subscription service provided by Microsoft and includes elements of installable software (i.e., Word, Excel, etc.) mixed with cloud-hosted versions of its software solutions (Exchange, SharePoint, etc.). It is a way for Microsoft to bring together many of its enterprise offerings into a convenient wrapper that businesses can subscribe to. In O365, there are many different tiers of core subscription licenses that usually build on top of each other, and there are a plethora of add-on licenses to let a business pick and choose what additional features they want. Subscriptions come in three broad categories: Home, Business, and Enterprise.

      You might see Office 365 and Microsoft 365 referenced together; it can get confusing, as Microsoft is rebranding some of the non-Enterprise plans from “Office” to “Microsoft.” The difference used to be that the “Office” or “O” plans contained Office software or Office services (Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Teams, etc.), and the “Microsoft” or “M” plans took the included offerings further, incorporating Windows 10 Enterprise licenses as well as the Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) tools. For our purposes, when looking at the Enterprise plans, consider O365 plans as a subset of M365.

      Teams is provided only as a cloud service, meaning that there is no edition that you can install on your own servers. It is generally provided as part of O365 subscriptions because it relies heavily on the rest of the Microsoft cloud offerings for its core functionality. (That said, Microsoft has released a cut-down version of Teams for free, but that is not something to consider for this exam. See www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/free for more information.)

      These integration points are as follows:

      You can find more information about the various Microsoft Teams architecture СКАЧАТЬ