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Microsoft Teams Management for Admins

Microsoft Teams Management for Admins is a course in running your organisation's Teams through the Teams admin center and Teams PowerShell, covering teams, policies and assignment, external and guest access, meetings, town halls, apps and call quality monitoring. It suits system administrators, IT teams and anyone given responsibility for looking after Teams.

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  • Duration6 hours · 1 days
  • FormatOnsite / live online
  • Next roundOn request
  • CertificateIncluded

Course overview

Once Microsoft Teams becomes the main way an organisation works, administrators must be able to say who can create teams, who can record meetings, what people outside the organisation can reach and why some meetings have choppy audio. Leaving the defaults in place leads to large numbers of duplicate teams, files leaking through guests and support that misses the real problem. The Teams admin center now has a unified Settings & policies page and policies for webinars and town halls, so administrators should review how they manage Teams to keep up with the current system.

This course starts with how Teams relates to Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint and OneDrive, the admin roles and deploying the new Teams client. You then manage teams through their life cycle, create policies and assign them to users or groups, configure external and guest access, control meetings, webinars, town halls, messaging and apps, use Teams PowerShell for bulk work, and monitor usage and call quality with reports and the Call Quality Dashboard. It finishes with a workshop in which you plan a set of Teams policies for an organisation. (1 day, 6 hours, Intermediate level.)

What you’ll gain

  • Explain how Teams relates to Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint and OneDrive, and the admin roles involved
  • Use the Teams admin center and plan deployment of the new Teams client
  • Manage teams, team owners, members and archiving
  • Create policies and assign them to users or groups, understanding policy precedence
  • Configure external access and guest access to match security policy
  • Control meetings, webinars, town halls, messaging and apps with policies
  • Use Teams PowerShell to check and configure settings in bulk
  • Monitor usage and analyse call quality problems with reports and the Call Quality Dashboard

Who this course is for

  • Microsoft 365 administrators responsible for Microsoft Teams
  • IT and helpdesk teams who resolve users' Teams problems
  • People given responsibility for looking after or setting Teams policy in their department
  • Administrators moving from an older meeting or chat system to Teams

Prerequisites

  • Experience of using Microsoft Teams as a user
  • A background in administering Microsoft 365 or organisational IT systems
  • A basic understanding of users and groups in Microsoft Entra ID
  • Some PowerShell experience will help but is not required

Curriculum

Course Details

This is the 2026 edition of the Microsoft Teams Management for Admin course. It runs for 1 day, 6 hours (09:00-16:00), as lectures with labs on a test tenant, at Intermediate level. The content follows the current Teams admin center, including the unified Settings & policies page, events policies for webinars and town halls, group policy assignment and the latest MicrosoftTeams PowerShell module, in place of the old installation and upgrade topics. It differs from Microsoft 365 OneDrive & Teams, which is for everyday users. Learners use their own or their company's test or trial tenant and take home the course handbook, sample PowerShell commands and the draft policy set from the workshop.

Day 1: Managing Your Organisation's Microsoft Teams

Section 1 Teams Architecture and Admin Roles
  • How Teams relates to Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint, OneDrive and Exchange
  • Where channel files live, and standard, private and shared channels
  • The Teams Administrator role and related roles
  • An overview of Teams licensing and features that need Teams Premium
Section 2 Lab: The Teams Admin Center and the Teams Client
  • The main menus of the Teams admin center and the Settings & policies page
  • How org-wide settings differ from custom policies
  • Planning deployment of the new Teams client on Windows, Mac and mobile
  • Lab: explore the Teams admin center and review your organisation's defaults
Section 3 Lab: Managing Teams Through Their Life Cycle
  • Creating teams and setting owners and members from the Teams admin center
  • Team templates and consistent team naming
  • An overview of limiting who can create teams, naming policies and expiration policies
  • Lab: create a project team, change its owner and archive it
Section 4 Lab: Policies and Policy Assignment
  • The global (org-wide default) policy and custom policies
  • Assigning to individual users, in batches and to groups with a rank
  • Policy packages and checking a user's effective policy
  • Lab: create policies for different departments and assign them to groups
Section 5 Lab: External Access and Guest Access
  • How external access differs from guest access
  • Allowing or blocking the domains users can contact
  • Guest permissions in Teams and file sharing through SharePoint
  • Lab: set up collaboration with a partner without opening up too much
Section 6 Lab: Meeting Policies and Meeting Settings
  • Per-organizer and per-user policies
  • The lobby, anonymous join and who can present
  • Recording, transcription and meeting chat
  • Lab: create meeting policies for executives and for staff
Section 7 Lab: Webinars and Town Halls
  • Events policies and allowing or blocking webinars and town halls
  • How a town hall differs from a regular meeting
  • An overview of the extra capabilities that come with Teams Premium
  • Lab: allow only the corporate communications team to run town halls
Section 8 Lab: Messaging and App Management
  • Messaging policies: editing and deleting messages, Giphy and read receipts
  • Manage apps: allowing or blocking Microsoft, third-party and custom apps
  • App setup policies for pinning apps for users
  • Lab: pin the apps your organisation uses and block unapproved apps
Section 9 Lab: Teams PowerShell
  • Installing the MicrosoftTeams module and Connect-MicrosoftTeams
  • Get-Team, Get-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy and Grant-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy
  • New-CsGroupPolicyAssignment and Get-CsUserPolicyAssignment
  • Lab: export a list of teams and assign policies to many users with a script
Section 10 Workshop: Monitoring Usage and Planning Teams Policies
  • Teams usage reports and service health in the Microsoft 365 admin center
  • Per-user call analytics and the Call Quality Dashboard
  • Workshop: design a set of Teams policies for a sample organisation
  • A monthly Teams administration checklist

Schedule & training options

For individuals — public rounds

No public rounds are open right now. Join the waiting list and we will contact you first when the next round opens, or ask us on LINE. Or call 02-570-8449 or 088-807-9770

For organisations — in-house / private

  • Tailor the content to your team’s tools and projects
  • Your dates, at your office or live online
  • Quotation with tax ID for procurement
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Frequently asked questions

How are Microsoft Teams and SharePoint related?

Every team is built on a Microsoft 365 group and has its own SharePoint site. Files shared in channels are stored in that site's document library, while private and shared channels get their own separate sites. Files shared in one-to-one or group chats are stored in the sender's OneDrive. Administrators therefore need to manage permissions and sharing in Teams and SharePoint together.

What is the difference between external access and guest access in Teams?

External access lets your users chat and call people in other organisations without those people joining your teams or seeing team files. Guest access invites an outside person into a team as a member, so they can use the team's channels, files and apps within the permissions you set. Use guest access only when real teamwork inside a team is needed, and review your guest list regularly.

How do you investigate choppy audio or frozen video in Teams meetings?

Start with the user's call analytics in the Teams admin center to see the details of that meeting, such as the device, network and packet loss. If the problem affects many people, use the Call Quality Dashboard to look at trends by building, network or time period, then check Wi-Fi, VPN and users' audio devices in turn.

Who is the Microsoft Teams Management for Admins course for, and what should I know beforehand?

It suits Microsoft 365 administrators, IT and helpdesk teams, and people given responsibility for Teams in their department. You should have used Teams as a user, have a background in administering Microsoft 365 or organisational IT systems and understand users and groups at a basic level. Some PowerShell experience will help you move faster.

What will I be able to do after the Microsoft Teams Management for Admins course?

You will be able to use the Teams admin center to manage teams through their life cycle, create policies and assign them to users or groups, configure external and guest access, control meetings, webinars, town halls, messaging and apps, use Teams PowerShell for bulk work, and analyse usage and call quality. Participants who complete the training receive a Certificate of Completion with its own number, which can be verified online.

Can the Microsoft Teams Management for Admins course be run in-house for our team?

Yes. It can be run in-house for your IT team, with content adapted to your environment, such as your department structure, your policies for working with partners and your plans for webinars or town halls. You can request a quotation from this page, or contact us on LINE @itgenius or by phone on 02-570-8449.

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