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The MS-700 exam is designed to test a candidate's knowledge and skills in managing Microsoft Teams in a Microsoft 365 environment. To prepare for the exam, candidates should have a good understanding of the core workloads of Teams, including chat, apps, channels, meetings, audio/video conferencing, live events, and calling. They should also be familiar with the integration of Teams with other Microsoft services and platforms, such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Microsoft 365 Groups, and Power Platform.

 

There are a variety of resources available to help you prepare for the MS-700 exam, including books, video training, and online articles and blog posts. Some popular study materials include the official Microsoft Teams Administrator's Guide, the Microsoft Teams Fundamentals Pluralsight course, and the MS-700 Managing Microsoft Teams exam guide on the Microsoft Learn website. (What I prefer and recommend!)

 

Skills measurement for the Exam:

• Plan and manage a Microsoft Teams environment (40-45%)
• Plan and manage chat, collaboration, meetings, and calling (25-30%)
• Manage calling and meetings (15-20%)
• Monitor, report, and troubleshoot a Microsoft Teams environment (10-15%)

 

Let's Start!

 

Explore Microsoft Teams - Training | Microsoft Learn:

Module Nr1: Explore capabilities in Microsoft Teams - Training | Microsoft Learn:

 

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration and communication platform that integrates chat, calling, meetings, collaboration, and application integration into a single experience 💻.

 

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• Chat:

• Chat is the center of whatever you do in Teams. 💬
• Private chats enable quick chats with a specific person or a group of people. You can start one-on-one or group chats by selecting Chat icon in Teams. 💬
• Channel messages are public and visible to members of the channels. You can start conversations and make announcements in one or multiple channels simultaneously by selecting new conversation in the Posts tab of channels. 💬

 

• Collaboration:

• Collaboration in Teams is about quickly pulling together a team with people inside and outside your organization. 🤝
• Teams consist of two user roles: Owners and Members. 🔑
• Teams can be dynamic for project-based work or ongoing to reflect the internal structure of the organization. 📂
• All data within a team is only visible to members of the team. At the top of each channel, you will find tabs which are links to your favorite files, apps, and services. 📂

• Channels: A team is made up of channels, which are the collaboration spaces within a team where the actual work is done.  Standard channels are visible to all team members, private channels create focused spaces for collaboration within a team, and shared channels create collaboration spaces where you can invite people who are not in the team 🤝.

 

Pic Source: Explore capabilities in Microsoft Teams - Training | Microsoft Learn

 

• Apps and workflows: Teams is designed to enable integration with other apps and processes, allowing for efficient workflows 🚀

• There are various apps that users can add to their teams, channels, and personal view to help them get things done. 📱

• You, as a Teams administrator, can manage apps, connectors, and bots that are available across all team members. 💼

• Teams includes online meetings, where users can host audio and video conference calls from any device, share content, and collaborate easily through integration with Microsoft 365. 📹

• Teams also includes webinars and live events, which provide tools to schedule, register attendees, run an interactive presentation, and analyze attendee data for effective follow-up. 📢

• Calls are also a quick way to connect in Teams, with many calling options and useful features that allow users to communicate with people or groups in familiar ways. 📞

 

Pic Source: Explore capabilities in Microsoft Teams - Training | Microsoft Learn

 

• Microsoft Teams also provides enterprise-grade security, compliance, and manageability. It allows organizations to adopt user collaboration and communication while protecting their business data and interests on an enterprise scale. 🔒

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Module Nr2: Explore Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft 365

• Microsoft 365 is a productivity cloud designed to help users achieve their goals in work and life with best-in-class Office apps, intelligent cloud services, and advanced security.💻
• Microsoft Teams is part of Microsoft 365, which means the collaboration experience in Teams is integrated with the files, information, and services that teams need to get things done.📈
• There are multiple ways to apply Microsoft 365 apps and services in Microsoft Teams, such as adding a new tab to a team channel or adding content to a chat from Microsoft 365 services.🔑

Microsoft Viva:

 

• Microsoft Viva is an integrated employee experience platform for the hybrid work era.💼
• Viva brings together tools and applications employees need into one unified solution aligned across four key areas: Connection, Insight, Purpose, and Growth.📊

source: Explore Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft 365 - Training | Microsoft Learn

• Viva Goals is a goal-setting and objectives and key res ults (OKR) management solution that helps organizations align everyday work to business outcomes.🎯

Outlook:

• The integration between Outlook and Teams makes it easy to collaborate no matter where the conversation is taking place. 💬
• Share to Outlook: Users can share chats or channel conversations to Outlook without leaving Teams by selecting on the "Share to Outlook" in more options ("...") icon in a conversation.
• Share to Teams: Users can move an email conversation from Outlook, including attachments, into a Teams chat or channel conversation by selecting on the "Share to Teams" in Outlook.📩
• Actionable missed activity emails: Users can set the notification for missed activity emails to stay on top of missed conversation in Teams. The missed activity emails show the latest replies from the conversation, and allow users to respond directly from within Outlook.📩

source: Explore Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft 365 - Training | Microsoft Learn

SharePoint

• In Microsoft Teams, users can add published SharePoint pages or lists as a tab in a Teams channel. 📄
• SharePoint pages let users share ideas using images, video, links, and documents.
• SharePoint lists are a great way to collaborate on content and data. Team members can view pages, edit lists, and add comments in the Teams tabs. 
• Add the SharePoint tab in Teams to quickly paste any page, news post, or list from a published SharePoint site.📄

source: Explore Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft 365 - Training | Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Lists:

• Microsoft Lists is a Microsoft 365 app that helps users track information and organize their work.📋
• With ready-made templates, you can quickly create lists from directly within Teams and access them on the Teams mobile app by accessing the Lists tab you added as a channel. 📋

source: Explore Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft 365 - Training | Microsoft Learn

Planner and Tasks

• Microsoft Planner is a task management tool that small teams of individuals can use to manage their work and associated tasks visually and openly with the rest of the team.📅
• Having Planner as a tab in Microsoft Teams enables the team to work more collaboratively and closer together without any added effort.
• Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner, and Outlook.📅

source: Explore Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft 365 - Training | Microsoft Learn

Forms:

• Users can access Microsoft Forms directly in Microsoft Teams.📊
• Easily set up a Forms tab, create a new form to collect responses, add an existing form to collect responses or show survey results, collaborate with your team on a form, create notifications for your form, or conduct a quick poll to a Teams chat, channel, or meeting.📊

source: Explore Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft 365 - Training | Microsoft Learn

Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Users can add document files as a tab in Microsoft Teams.📁
• Additionally, files stored in team's file library are accessible to every member of the Team. Users and their team members can coedit Word, PowerPoint, or Excel documents, or comment on Visio files.📁

OneNote

• Within Microsoft Teams, users can interact with Notebook by visiting the OneNote tab in a channel in Teams.📝
• Create a tab of OneNote to a channel in Teams to store text, images, handwritten notes, and more.
• Add a tab of OneNote to a channel in Teams from an existing notebook to centralize content.📝

 

To be continued...