Conduct a pilot Teams roll out to validate technical and user readiness, identify and mitigate issues, and help ensure a successful organization-wide implementation. Perform the following steps for conducting a pilot.
- Outline the pilot logistics with clear start date, end date and defined goals to measure the success outcome. Run the pilot for at least 30 days to assess its impact.
- Select your pilot participants and launch the pilot for a particular department or project in your organization
- Your pilot participants can either try the functionalities of Teams all at once or gradually use each feature. Either way, get feedback and measure the outcomes regularly.
- Provide your pilot participants with Teams upgrade resources and communicate what is expected of them, clearly. Indulge in value adding conversations to keep them involved.
- Conduct the pilot for the suggested time period and monitor your network usage and performance to ensure good call quality and user experience.
- Assess your pilot upon completion to see if your organization is ready for a full roll out. You can also extend another pilot for a broad spectrum of users or redo it with some changes, if the outcomes do not match your expectations.
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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.
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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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