Managing Microsoft Teams: Configuring Network Settings

IN THIS COURSE

• 1.  Course Overview
  1m 55s
  You’ll learn about your instructor and this course. This course covers how to use the Network Planner tool to create custom personas, add network plans, and create reports used to review bandwidth requirements and recommendations. You’ll also learn how to use the Network Testing Companion to access network readiness and explore how to configure media optimizations using Quality of Service. FREE ACCESS
• 2.  The Network Planner Tool
  7m 49s
  Here, you’ll learn about the Network Planner Tool. It can be used to help you plan the deployment of Microsoft Teams throughout your environment. It creates representations of your organization, both in terms of users and network configuration. These representations can then be used to calculate the requirements for Teams. This feature is available through the Teams admin center. FREE ACCESS
• 3.  Adding a Network Plan Using the Network Planner Tool
  5m 35s
  Here, you’ll watch a demo. You’ll learn how to use the Network Planner in Teams to help you determine the configuration you should have for your network. FREE ACCESS
• 4.  Creating Custom Personas
  5m 41s
  Here, you’ll watch a demo. You’ll learn how to use Personas as part of the Network planner. These represent the types of users you have in an environment, not necessarily the number of users. When you create any network plan, you already have three default Personas as part of your plan. FREE ACCESS
• 5.  Adding Network Sites Using the Network Planner Tool
  9m 42s
  Here, you’ll watch a demo. You’ll learn how to use the Network Planner to add sites to your network plan. You’ll create a simulated environment that reflects what your actual network configuration looks like. Using Teams, you’ll create a site. You’ll also learn to create a Subnet. You’ll learn the ExpressRoute feature offers you a direct connection to the cloud through your telecommunications provider. FREE ACCESS
• 6.  Creating Reports Using the Network Planner Tool
  7m 55s
  Here, you’ll watch a demo. You’ll learn how to create reports using the Network Planner. The planner itself allows you to first create a plan which serves as the container for all other components. You’ll see that by creating a report, you can map the sites and the personas you have created. This will generate the report that will provide you with a better idea as to your bandwidth requirements. FREE ACCESS
• 7.  Analyzing Reports Using the Network Planner Tool
  7m 15s
  Here, you’ll watch a demo. You’ll learn how to analyze the results of a report using the Network Planner. Analyzing a report allows you to see your bandwidth requirements. FREE ACCESS
• 8.  Working with the Network Testing Companion
  7m 12s
  Here, you’ll watch a demo. You’ll learn how to work with the Network Testing Companion. You’ll learn how to install and run the Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams Network Testing Companion. It’s installed through PowerShell. FREE ACCESS
• 9.  Steps to Optimize Network Experiences
  5m 30s
  This provides an overview of some of the network requirements for an optimal experience in Teams. You’ll want to include your domain name for use with Microsoft 365. This must be verified before you can make full use of most services. You’ll also need to verify the status of your Exchange Online and SharePoint Online deployments. FREE ACCESS
• 10.  Steps to Optimize Teams Performance
  7m 14s
  Here, you’ll look at some network optimization options that will improve the performance of Teams. Teams can have higher bandwidth requirements due to its real-time communication features like video conferencing and voice calls. Without sufficient bandwidth, Teams can suffer from poor quality calls, calls being dropped entirely, or the Teams service simply may not perform adequately. These problems may not be due to bandwidth. There could be firewalls or proxy servers blocking certain services. FREE ACCESS
• 11.  Bandwidth Requirement Scenarios
  4m 8s
  This provides an overview of the bandwidth requirements for an implementation of Teams. The primary services of Teams that require the most bandwidth are audio, video, and screen sharing. The more of these features in use, the greater the overall bandwidth requirements. Teams was designed to provide an optimal user experience across all features, regardless of the network conditions. Design and optimization methods can only go so far when there isn't enough bandwidth available. FREE ACCESS
• 12.  QoS in Microsoft Teams
  7m 29s
  You’ll learn the steps required to improve the performance of Teams by implementing Quality of Service. This will help you better manage bandwidth usage. In its default configuration, Teams traffic isn't distinguishable from any other traffic. This means it’s possible that Teams traffic is drowned out by the other traffic on your network. In this case, QoS can be implemented to give priority to the traffic generated by Teams and deliver better performance. FREE ACCESS
• 13.  Configuring QoS on Windows Clients
  9m 31s
  Here, you’ll watch a demo. You’ll learn how to configure Quality of Service in Microsoft Teams. You’ll use a group policy to configure what's known as DSCP values for the client systems. FREE ACCESS
• 14.  Adding, Changing, and Removing Emergency Locations
  6m 9s
  You’ll watch a demo to learn how to look at adding an emergency address or emergency location in Teams. This is necessary if you plan to set up any kind of phone system. If you place a 911 call from anywhere, there must be an address associated with the location where the call originates. FREE ACCESS
• 15.  Creating Custom Emergency Calling Policies
  7m 4s
  In this demonstration, you’ll learn how to create a custom emergency calling policy. You’ll take a look at the Default policy, as well. FREE ACCESS
• 16.  Adding and Updating Reporting Labels
  4m 1s
  In this video, you’ll watch a demo. You’ll learn to add and update Reporting labels. FREE ACCESS
• 17.  Network Regions, Sites, and Subnets
  5m 38s
  Here, you’ll look at the types of network locations that can be configured in Teams. These are regions, sites, and subnets. You’ll also look at trusted IP addresses. Each of these is used by Teams to help indicate from where any given type of communication originates. Region represents the top of the location hierarchy. It refers to a collection or a group of one or more sites. FREE ACCESS
• 18.  Adding and Modifying Network Sites
  8m 15s
  In this demo, you’ll learn how to configure your Network topology in Teams. This involves the configuration of a network region, a network site, and a subnet. These are arranged in a particular hierarchy, and you’ll take a look at the entire process. FREE ACCESS
• 19.  Course Summary
  1m 4s
  This video summarizes what you’ve learned. You examined how to plan and configure network settings in Microsoft Teams. You explored the network planner tool, network plans, and custom personas. You learned how to add network sites and create and analyze reports. You worked with network testing companion steps to optimize network experience and Teams performance. You also looked at bandwidth requirement scenarios and Quality of Service in Microsoft Teams and Windows clients. FREE ACCESS