{"id":10460,"date":"2022-01-31T14:28:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T03:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intelliworx.wpenginepowered.com\/au\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2025-04-07T04:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:33:42","slug":"microsoft-teams-deployment-in-your-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/au\/blog\/microsoft-teams-deployment-in-your-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams deployment in your enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Teams has been getting more popular among enterprises, largely thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw a record number of people working from home. As of January 2022, the platform has over 270 million monthly users \u2013 rising from 75 million monthly users in April 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s become one of the most popular and reliable remote or hybrid work solutions in the world.<\/p>\n

What is Microsoft Teams?<\/h2>\n

Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace that brings together people, conversations, content, and tools. The chat platform provides features such as search, discovery, webhooks, bots, channels, and document management.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Teams brings together familiar Office 365 tools<\/a>, including SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange. It\u2019s designed to help teams organise their conversations around specific projects or tasks. It also helps with collaboration by providing an integrated experience across all of the Microsoft products you need to get your work done.<\/p>\n

Like other Microsoft products, Teams is becoming more popular by the day, and it’s easy to sign up for an Office 365 group. You can access most of the features from these tools individually or as a whole with various integrations. These tools will be familiar to your employees and help them quickly take on tasks for team collaboration.<\/p>\n

Preparing your Teams deployment<\/h3>\n

Teams is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application that allows you to easily setup, manage, and scale your team in the cloud. It solves a lot of issues with hardware procurement or set-up and has an extensive list of tools and features to make everything easier.<\/p>\n

Deploying Microsoft Teams can be quick, easy, and usually affordable. It\u2019s not deployed on premise and there are no server maintenance or patching requirements. Your business will also have more time to focus on other important tasks as a result of Microsoft Teams\u2019 cloud-based nature.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re going to need someone who is skilled in working in a cloud environment and has a good understanding of administering Office 365, and you\u2019re going to find many users who are new to or overwhelmed by the new version.<\/p>\n

There can be a lot of confusion and questions from your employees when first using Microsoft Teams. It will take some time to sift through this process and learn how everything in Microsoft Teams works before it will fully settle.<\/p>\n

Network planning<\/h3>\n

Network planning is essential for Teams when there are a lot of users, a complex network, or both.<\/p>\n

Your networks must have adequate bandwidth to accommodate the number of concurrent voice calls, video conferences, meetings, screen sharing, etc. as well as hardware that supports real-time communication protocols.<\/p>\n

Networks should allow the required ports between devices and communications with Microsoft 365. They should also provide the appropriate security measures to protect your company against external users.<\/p>\n

Organise your teams<\/h3>\n

Before you roll out Microsoft Teams in your workplace, it is important to first have a clear plan of how to set up teams and channels.<\/p>\n

Teams provides voice and video conferencing functionality which relies on real-time communications to provide the best experience possible.<\/p>\n

Some best practices for team-working are to set clear goals, which should be decided on ahead of time. Establish who and what will be added to each team and develop role-based approvals as soon as possible. Instead of starting with a large group, start small and work your way up as needed.<\/p>\n

This will help empower your entire enterprise and maximise the productivity of Teams.<\/p>\n

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Management and adoption<\/h3>\n

Adoption of new technologies takes time. With proper management, you can help your enterprise prepare for the deployment in an orderly manner and manage it throughout the change process.<\/p>\n

Best practises checklist:<\/strong><\/p>\n