Teams works in conjunction with Office/Microsoft 365 and integrates with a variety of cloud services to deliver group conversation and collaboration. Designed as a successor to Microsoft's Skype for Business Online, Teams provides a single interface to support messaging, voice/video conferencing with screen sharing, calling, cloud-hosted voicemail, group mailboxes, plus document and app sharing. Microsoft Teams is fully integrated with Office/Microsoft 365 and depends on Exchange Online and SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) for opening up its complete set of capabilities. Your company can use Teams exclusively or you can configure a hybrid model that combines Teams along with self-hosted Skype for Business Server.
Progent's Teams experts can deliver online and onsite expertise to assist companies of all sizes to evaluate the business advantages of Microsoft Teams, plan and carry out an efficient migration to Microsoft Teams from Microsoft Skype for Business or Lync, and tune or debug a Teams deployment. Progent can help you to install and manage a cloud-centric communications system based on Microsoft Teams, and Progent's Skype for Business consulting experts can help your company to create a hybrid deployment that seamlessly combines Teams with your on-premises Skype for Business Server system. Progent's consultants can assist you to combine Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, and Microsoft 365 applications and also with your internal PBX, your PSTN connection. gateway, and in-room telephony equipment.
Progent's Cisco CCIE network infrastructure consultants are available to help you to design and configure a robust network topology for Teams, and Progent's information security and compliance experts can help your business to create communications security policies following industry best practices. Progent's experts can troubleshoot occasional IT bottlenecks or provide comprehensive project management support to ensure that your Microsoft Teams deployment is carried out on time and within budget.
Major Features of Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams combines chat, conferencing, IP calling, document collaboration, app integration, and file storage into a single user interface. Microsoft Teams is continually updated and has reached feature equivalence with Microsoft Skype for Business in all essential functions. Microsoft Teams also offers substantial improvements in scale, messaging, integration with Microsoft 365, and other aspects of collaboration. Also, Microsoft Teams brings the structures of Teams and Channels to make it simpler to collaborate on initiatives, have group chats, share files and applications, and conduct conferences.
Teams and Channels
Teams and channels are defining structures in Teams for enabling cooperation and organizing knowledge. A team is a group of people from inside and outside your business who can collaborate with one another in a positive manner via meetings and by exchanging messages, files, and apps. Teams can be based on business divisions, office locations, projects, common interests, or any unifying theme that can benefit from a modern collaboration solution. Whenever you define a team you create a Microsoft 365 group, a SharePoint Online site and document library, a Microsoft Exchange Online group mailbox/calendar, a OneNote notebook, and a persistent chat workspace. If you create a team from an existing 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 include as many as 10,000 members.
Channels are chat-based workspaces associated with a team. Each channel other than the default General channel is concerned with a topic you specify. All conversations, document sharing, and meetings for a given theme occur within the appropriate channel. Channels can be open to all team members or restricted to a portion of the team. Authorized team members can expand a channel by inserting apps that be tabs, connectors, and bots. Any files shared on a channel using the Files tab are located on SharePoint Online. Administrators can define policies to permit or reject apps for a channel. Meetings held in a channel can include shared whiteboards, notes, and chat. Incorporation of Microsoft Stream makes it possible for meetings to be recorded, saved, and replayed.
Compatibility with Microsoft 365 Services
The Teams client interface works in conjunction with Office/Microsoft 365 apps to provide a cohesive real-time collaboration solution. In addition, Teams connectors make it possible for you to expand Teams with third-party apps such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google Analytics, Jira, and UPS Bot.
Examples of the combination of Microsoft Teams with Office/Microsoft 365 include:
Ways Progent Can Assist You to Upgrade to Teams from Skype for Business
Teams takes the place of Skype for Business Online as Microsoft's flagship cloud-based platform for unified communications and collaboration. Organizations now relying on Skype for Business or Lync Server should plan for the upgrade to Microsoft Teams.
Progent can provide as-needed expertise in the broad array of IT disciplines required to optimize the ROI of your Teams investment. Progent can provide the assistance of Skype for Business consulting experts and Lync experts to assist you to stage your legacy collaboration environment for upgrading to Teams. Progent's Exchange specialists, SharePoint Online specialists, and Office/Microsoft 365 experts can help your business to combine Teams with familiar cloud apps. Progent's phone system integration consultants can help your organization to connect your phone system to Teams.
Progent offers remote or onsite consulting support to help you to resolve occasional IT issues or Progent can deliver end-to-end project management outsourcing services to your organization to design and carry out a smooth Teams migration.
Progent's expert support for assisting your business to upgrade to Teams include:
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