Chapter 3
Administering Teams
IN THIS CHAPTER
Looking at Teams
Understanding how Teams works
Exploring the Teams admin center
Setting restrictions on Teams features
This chapter covers the basics of administering Microsoft Teams. If you’ve worked with Teams as an end user, you may not be aware that there’s an administrative side to Teams. After all, most Teams environments are set up so that users can create and fully customize new teams, adding public and private channels, building out a channel with new tabs and apps, and admitting members.
All of that’s true when Teams is left in its default configuration, wide open so that anyone who uses Teams is sort of his own Teams administrator. But there’s a lot going on behind the scenes with Teams. And many organizations have discovered that leaving it wide open creates an environment like the Wild West. It won’t take long before you have hundreds or even thousands of teams, with no consistency in naming standards and little concern for security.
That’s where the Teams Admin Center comes in. This chapter is a brief introduction to this ...
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