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Microsoft Teams Admin Guide

The Microsoft Teams Administrator Center document provides an overview of the key administrative functions in Microsoft Teams including managing users, meeting policies, messaging policies, apps, analytics and reports, organization-wide configurations, guest access settings, and notification settings. It includes screenshots illustrating how to access and configure these various administrative settings and policies to control features for your organization in Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Teams Admin Guide

The Microsoft Teams Administrator Center document provides an overview of the key administrative functions in Microsoft Teams including managing users, meeting policies, messaging policies, apps, analytics and reports, organization-wide configurations, guest access settings, and notification settings. It includes screenshots illustrating how to access and configure these various administrative settings and policies to control features for your organization in Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Teams Administrator Center

Microsoft Teams Administrator Center

1.0| Microsoft Teams Admin Center


Figure 1 Image illustrates Microsoft Teams Admin Center

Microsoft Teams Admin Center is the place where you can manage all the settings for Microsoft Teams
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1.1| The quickest way to the Admin Centre


Please navigate to: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com

Figure2 Image illustrates a general view of teams dashboard for administration purposes.
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Microsoft Teams Administrator Center

1.3| The Microsoft Teams Dashboard


You can quickly search for users from the Dashboard. This can also be done directly on the browser
via: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com /users

Figure3 illustrates how to search for users in the admin dashboard .

2.0| Block Chatting for everyone in Microsoft Teams


Browse to: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/messaging
Open the global policy - disable Chat in Teams.
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It is recommended to do so on a selection of groups of people, such as students or external contacts that you allow into your
environment.

Figure4 illustrates how to disable Chat in Teams .


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3.0| Meeting policy


Meeting policies are used to determine which features are available to users when they participate to Microsoft Teams
meetings. You can use the general policy (default for the whole organization) and adapt it or create one or more custom
meeting policies for people hosting meetings in your organization.

As an example you can create a Policy e.g. Global Meeting as shown below and customize all fields as best suits your
organization
Figure 5 illustrates the general settings in a meeting policy setup

Figure 7 Figure illustrates different settings for audio, video, recording and transcription
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Figure 6 Image illustrates content sharing settings under meeting policies.

Figure7 Image illustrates how to control access to teams meetings for participants and guests.

2.1| Meetings - Live Events Policies


Teams live events policies are used to turn on or off features, such as who can join a live event, if transcription is provided for
attendees, or if recording live events is available for people that schedule and hold live events. You can use the Global (Org-
wide default) policy and customize it, or create additional policies with different settings and assign them to people that hold
live events in your organization.
Figure 8 Image illustrates how to setup policy settings for joining, transcription e.t.c of live events
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3.0| Messaging policies


Messaging policies are used to control what chat and channel messaging features are available to users in teams. You can use
Global (Org-wide default) policy or create one or more custom messaging policies for people in your organization.

In this view, you can put settings that are very relevant to have a thorough look at. You can even block chatting within
Microsoft Teams. Disable reading confirmation, enable or disable Teams translation, allow people to edit their teams chat
post or not. Direct link: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com /policies/broadcasts

Figure9 Image illustrates messaging policy settings to control chat and channel messaging e.g. Disable reading confirmation
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4.0| Microsoft Teams Apps


When you are managing apps for your organization, you are controlling what apps are available to users in your organization's
app store. You can then use app permission and app setup policies to configure what apps will be available for specific users.

737 Microsoft Teams apps are allowed by default in this test environment. If you want to keep an eye on applications that you
would rather not see in the environment, you can block the application individually here.
Direct link: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com /policies/manage-apps

Figure 10 Image illustrates management of apps for your organization

Within the permission policies of Teams apps you can block Third-Party apps from being allowed in your organization.
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Figure11 Image illustrates how to setup permissions for apps on teams.

5.0| Analytics & Reports


Current Teams usage, apps usage, teams live events usage.

Analytics and reports will help you create different types of reports to get insights and information about Teams usage, apps
usage, teams live events usage. These reports will help you better understand usage patterns so you make better business
decisions. These are very useful factors to be able to steer on. It is also possible to measure adoption.

Figure12 Image illustrates how to run various teams usage reports.


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6.0| Organization-wide configurations


Remote access allows your Teams and Skype for Business users to communicate with other users outside your organization.
By default, your organization can communicate with all external domains. If you add blocked domains, all other domains are
allowed, but if you add allowed domains, all other domains are blocked.

One of the most important admin panels to adjust settings. Would you like to allow Microsoft Teams use with outsiders
chatting? You can do that here. https://admin.teams.microsoft.com /company-wide-settings/external-communications

Figure13 Image illustrates how to setup remote access for teams users.
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7.0| Admitting guests


Guest access in Teams gives people from outside your organization access to teams and channels. Enabling Guest Access
allows you to enable or disable features that guest users can or cannot use. Be sure to follow the steps in this checklist to set
up the requirements so team owners can add guest users to their teams.

Figure14 Image illustrates how to give guests access to your organizations teams.
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8.0| Notification settings


With Teams settings you can configure your teams for functions such as email integration, cloud storage options and device
configuration. When you make changes to settings here, they are applied to all teams within your organization

Figure15 Image illustrates how to go about

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