Microsoft recommends leveraging its proven framework to upgrade to Teams. The framework consists of the following steps that help you upgrade from Skype for Business to Teams effortlessly.
- Determine project stakeholders: Assign project team members accountable for the project's structure, functioning, deliverables and overall success.
- Define your project: Set a long term vision for your organization, a short term scope, and goals that denote the project's success.
- Technical and user readiness: Evaluate your environment and ensure that it is technically equipped to adopt Teams. Effectively communicate the upgrade and prepare your employees for the upcoming changes.
- Deployment and Implementation: Before you roll out Teams for the entire organization, run a pilot to confirm that your organization is fully prepared to adopt Teams
- Operational Excellence: Redefine goals and operational plans to maximize business value. Implement a quality check and monitoring plan to ensure good user experience.
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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