Microsoft Teams operates on top of Office/Microsoft 365 and integrates with a variety of cloud applications to deliver group communications and cooperation. Developed as a successor to Microsoft's Skype for Business Online, Teams provides a single interface to support chat, audio/video conferencing with shared screens and white boards, calling, cloud-hosted voicemail, group mailboxes, as well as document and app sharing. Microsoft Teams is fully integrated with Microsoft 365 and relies on Exchange and SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Azure AAD for delivering its full set of capabilities. Your company can run Teams exclusively or you can deploy a hybrid architecture that supports Teams in conjunction with on-premises Skype for Business Server.
Progent's Microsoft Teams specialists can provide online and onsite expertise to help organizations of all sizes to evaluate the strategic advantages of Microsoft Teams, plan and carry out a cost effective migration to Microsoft Teams from Microsoft Skype for Business or Microsoft Lync Server, and tune or troubleshoot a Microsoft Teams deployment. Progent can help your organization to install and manage a cloud-only communications ecosystem based on Teams, and Progent's Skype for Business Server specialists can help your company to create a hybrid solution that combines Microsoft Teams with your on-premises Skype for Business Server ecosystem. Progent's consultants can assist your organization to combine Teams with Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, and Microsoft 365 applications and also with your in-house PBX, your PSTN connection. gateway, and in-room telephony equipment.
Progent's Cisco-certified network infrastructure experts are available to assist you to plan and implement a robust network architecture for Teams, and Progent's information security experts can assist your business to create enterprise-wide communications security policies based on industry best practices. Progent's consultants can troubleshoot occasional IT road blocks or deliver end-to-end project management or co-management services to ensure that your Microsoft Teams installation is successfully carried out on time and on budget.
Key Features of Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams combines real-time chat chat, conferencing, IP calling, document co-editing, app integration, and file storage into a unified user experience. Teams is regularly updated and has reached feature parity with Microsoft Skype for Business in all essential capabilities. Microsoft Teams also offers substantial advantages in scale, chat, integration with Office/Microsoft 365, and other aspects of collaboration. In addition, Microsoft Teams brings the structures of Teams and Channels to make it simpler to work together on initiatives, have real-time conversations, share documents and apps, and conduct conferences.
Teams and Channels
Teams and channels are innovative features of Teams for enabling collaboration and sharing information. A team is a collection of users from within and outside your business who can collaborate with each other in a positive manner via conferencing and by sharing messages, files, and apps. Teams can reflect business divisions, office locations, projects, mutual interests, or any unifying theme that can benefit from a modern collaboration solution. Whenever you define a team you create a Office/Microsoft 365 group, a SharePoint Online site and document library, an Exchange Online group mailbox/calendar, a OneNote notebook, and a persistent chat workspace. If you make a team using an existing Office/Microsoft 365 group, that group's members, SharePoint Online site, shared mailbox, and OneNote notebook are all added to Teams. A team can be public or private and can have as many as 10,000 participants.
Channels are chat workspaces associated with a team. Each channel except the default General channel is concerned with a topic you define. All conversations, file sharing, and conferences for a topic occur within the associated channel. Channels can be available to all team participants or limited to a portion of the team. Permitted team participants can enhance a channel by adding apps that be tabs, connectors, and bots. Files shared on a channel using the Files tab are located on a SharePoint Online document collection. Managers can control policies to permit or reject apps for a channel. Conferences occurring in a channel can feature shared digital whiteboards, notes, and chat. Incorporation of Microsoft Stream makes it possible for meetings to be recorded, saved, and played back.
Compatibility with Office/Microsoft 365
The Microsoft Teams user interface operates on top of Microsoft 365 productivity apps and services to provide a modern real-time collaboration solution. In addition, connectors make it possible for you to integrate Teams with outside apps including Facebook, Google Analytics, Jira, and MailChimp.
Samples of the integration of Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365 services include:
Progent offers on-demand support for the wide array of IT disciplines needed to maximize the ROI of your Teams investment. Progent can provide the assistance of Skype for Business Server consultants and Lync Server consultants to help your organization to stage your current collaboration environment for migration to Microsoft Teams. Progent's Exchange Online consulting experts, SharePoint consultants, and Microsoft 365 specialists can assist your organization to combine Microsoft Teams with familiar productivity applications. Progent's phone system integration experts can help your business to integrate your phone environment to Teams.
Progent offers online or on-premises expertise to assist your organization to overcome occasional IT obstacles or Progent can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing services to your business to design and carry out a smooth upgrade to Microsoft Teams
Progent's expert services for assisting your business to upgrade to Microsoft Teams include:
Call or Email Progent for Teams Consulting Services
To learn more about Progent's migration services for Microsoft Teams, call