Choose your upgrade journey from Skype for Business to Teams
The upgrade to Teams from Skype for Business could be a one shot shift or you could gradually introduce your employees to use certain capabilities in Teams alongside Skype for Business. Given the five modes of Teams deployment, always run a pilot of chosen mode of deployment to ensure that your organization is ready to upgrade to Teams. There are two methods for migrating an existing organization with Skype for Business to Teams:
- Overlapping capabilities: In this method, the Islands mode of coexistence is adopted. Users use Teams alongside the existing Skype for Business, during a transitional phase. In this mode, most of the Teams capabilities are made available to them. Once the organization is ready, the administrator moves the users to Teams Only mode.
- Select capabilities: In this method, any one of the Skype for Business modes is used, be it Skype only mode or Skype for Business with Teams collaboration mode or Skype with Teams collaboration & meetings mode. The administrator determines the functionalities such as chat, voice calls, and meetings, to be made available in each application. There is no overlap of functionalities between the applications. Administrators use the TeamsUpgradePolicy to control when to shift these functionalities to Teams and progressively migrate more users to Teams Only mode.
Manage Microsoft Teams with M365 Manager Plus.
Once the upgrade to Teams is complete, M365 Manager Plus can help you effectively manage your Teams environment. M365 Manager Plus is a complete Microsoft 365 administrative solution that offers an extensive set of features to effortlessly manage Microsoft Teams from a single, user-friendly console.
Bulk management: Create, update and delete teams, channels, team members, team policies, and more, in bulk by importing a simple CSV file.
Detailed reporting: Gain deep insights into team sizes, user activity, device usage, and more, with pre-configured, comprehensive reports.
Granular auditing: Detect unusual activities or events by auditing team creation, user sign-ins, channel creation, and more.
24x7 monitoring: Ensure around-the-clock monitoring of Microsoft Teams' features and endpoints.
Instant alerting: Get instant alerts for critical events via email. Configure custom alert profiles for Microsoft Teams activities.
Task automation: Automate repetitive management tasks with customized automation policies to save time and enhance productivity.
Help desk delegation: Create custom help desk roles and delegate Teams management, auditing, and more, to non-admin users to reduce admin workload.
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