Slides from a Redmond Magazine / RedmondIT webinar on Dec 7th, 2017, presented by Microsoft MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, walking through Microsoft's guidance on the transition from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams. This session includes current roadmap, as well as practical guidance for customers who are planning to make the transition from Skype to Teams.

1. The Integration of Teams
and Skype for Business
Christian Buckley
Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC
Office Servers & Services MVP

2. Christian Buckley
Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC
Office Servers & Services MVP
cbuck@collabtalk.com
www.buckleyplanet.com
@buckleyplanet

3. Overview
Microsoft recently announced that it will combine Skype for
Business with Microsoft Teams, the new communications
and collaboration tool within Office 365. This means that
the Teams interface will replace the Skype for Business UI.
Whether you use one or the other, it will have a major
impact on how your organization collaborates.
Organizations need to understand what this means to their
organization, and what they need to do to prepare.

4. REINVENTING COLLABORATION,
TRANSFORMING PRODUCTIVITY

5. https://www.slideshare.net/SPSParis2017/keynote-mark-kashmann-sps-paris-20171014

8. Microsoft’s Guidance
▪ As part of the Microsoft intelligent communications vision to deliver smarter calling and meeting
experiences, Microsoft is building Skype for Business capabilities into Teams.
▪ This will happen over time, and ultimately Teams will become the single client experience.
▪ Microsoft is committed to Skype for Business customers, releasing a new server version next year.
▪ There is so much to gain from implementing Teams, especially in the collaboration scenarios we
recommend starting on Teams now if you are SFB organization that is in the cloud or moving
there. Driving mobile, chat, cloud file sharing and other popular app integrations shifts the
center of gravity for your collaboration experience to Teams with the attendant benefits

9. Microsoft’s Guidance
▪ As a valued Skype for Business customer, Microsoft is here to support you every step of the
way on your journey to Teams.
▪ Microsoft understands that change takes time, and encourages organizations begin exploring
Teams today to understand the value it can offer to your organization, while you continue to
run Skype for Business.

10. Intelligent Communications vision
▪ Intelligent communications go beyond traditional
unified communications, enabling you to complete
tasks more efficiently with minimal context switching,
participate in more productive meetings that cover
the entire meeting lifecycle, and better manage your
everyday communications overload.
▪ Microsoft Teams is at the core of Microsoft’s vision
for intelligent communications—bringing together
conversations, meetings, files, Office apps, and third-
party integrations—to provide a single hub for
teamwork in Office 365.
More details: Intelligent Communications in Office 365 in FastTrack

11. Example: A Future Business Meeting
Combining communications, collaboration, and
intelligence in this way will make new things possible
across the lifecycle of a call or meeting:
▪ Before a meeting, Teams will surface relevant
documents and rich information about the participants
to help you prepare.
▪ During the meeting, the conversation can be captured,
transcribed, and time-coded, with closed captioning
and voice recognition for attributing remarks to specific
individuals.
▪ After the meeting, the cloud recording and transcript
can be automatically added to the relevant channel, so
conversations, documents, notes, and action items can
be reviewed, indexed, and searched by the entire team.

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17. 1 - Optimize your current Skype for Business environment for Teams
▪ Network readiness assessment
▪ Utilize the My Advisor self-service guide
▪ Quality of Service assessment
▪ Identify champions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/prepare-teams

18. 2 – Pilot Teams alongside Skype for Business
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/pilot-essentials

20. 3 - Enable Teams side-by-side with Skype for Business
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/guidance-skypeforbusiness

21. 4 - Drive value through user adoption
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/continue-journey

24. Office 365 Security and Compliance Portal

25. Office 365 Security and Compliance Portal
▪ Auditing and Reporting
▪ Audit log search plugs right into the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center and exposes
abilities to set alerts and/or report on Audit event by making available, export of workload specific
or generic event sets for admin use and investigation, across an unlimited auditing timeline. All
Audit Log data is available for setting up of alerts within the Office 365 Security and Compliance
Center, as well as for filtering and export for further analysis.
▪ Compliance Content Search
▪ Content Search can be used to search Microsoft Teams through rich filtering capabilities and
exported to a specific container for compliance and litigation support. This can be done with or
without an eDiscovery case.

26. Office 365 Security and Compliance Portal
▪ eDiscovery
▪ Electronic discovery is the electronic aspect of identifying, collecting and producing electronically
stored information (ESI) in response to a request for production in a law suit or investigation.
▪ Capabilities include case management, preservation, search, analysis and export of Teams data.
This includes chat, messaging and file data.
▪ Customers can leverage in-place eDiscovery or Advanced eDiscovery
▪ Legal Hold
▪ When any Team within Microsoft Teams is put on In-Place Hold or Litigation Hold, the hold is
placed on the groups mailbox.
▪ Legal Holds are generally applied within the context of an eDiscovery case.

27. Auditing Microsoft Teams
▪ The Audit Log provides
ad-hoc search capabilities
for Microsoft Teams through
the Security & Compliance
Admin Center, including:
• Team Creation
• Team Deletion
• Added Channel
• Changed Setting

28. Conversation eDiscovery
▪ All Teams 1:1 or group chats
are journaled through to the
respective users’ mailboxes
and all channel messages
are journaled through to the
group mailbox representing
the Team.
▪ Files uploaded are covered
under the eDiscovery
functionality for SharePoint
Online and OneDrive for
Business.

29. Office 365 Usage Analytics

31. What’s new? November Update
▪ Manage Microsoft Teams via PowerShell - IT Professionals always look for ways to automate tasks and make daily
operations simpler. In November, we released a new PowerShell module for Microsoft Teams that enables you to
leverage PowerShell to configure and manage Teams.
▪ Two new usage reports in the Office 365 admin center that enable you to understand how your users are leveraging
Teams to communicate and collaborate: the Microsoft Teams user activity report, and the Microsoft Teams app usage
report.
▪ Store your Teams data locally in the UK government, public sector and healthcare address their legal, regulatory and
compliance needs, Microsoft Teams now provides data residency in the UK. This means that new customers who have
signed up for Teams after Nov 1st, 2017 automatically receive the benefit of having their data stored in country.
▪ Support for conditional access on Macs – The macOS app for Microsoft Teams now supports device-based conditional
access for Azure Active Directory and Intune. This enables IT admins to manage macOS devices with Intune and
create policies to secure the data in Teams and prevent leakage on untrusted devices. Using conditional access
policies, organizations can for example restrict access to Teams to devices that comply with the company's security
policy or require multi-factor authentication.
Microsoft Teams November 2017 Update

32. What’s new? November Update
▪ Leave a group chat – Group chats in Teams are a great way to communicate with a group of people about topics that
might not be relevant to all members of a team. When you’re part of a group chat, it sometimes happens that the
conversation evolves into a direction that is less important to you. Or you might have been added to a group chat by
mistake in the first place. To help you in these scenarios, we have added the ability for you to leave a group chat. To
remove yourself from a group chat, click on the overflow menu next to the chat and select Leave. You will still be able
to access the chat history up until the moment you left.
Microsoft Teams November 2017 Update

33. What’s new? November Update
▪ Control who can post in the General channel – When
you create a team, a General channel is created for you
automatically. Many organizations use the General
channel to share an overview of what the team wants
to achieve and to share other high-level information like
a welcome presentation.
Microsoft Teams November 2017 Update

34. What’s new? November Update
▪ Access all your personal settings in one place –
We've rebuilt the Settings menu to make it more
streamlined for you to manage your preferences.
Now, you can change your app theme, language,
and notifications settings all in one place. To access
your settings, click on your profile picture and
select Settings.
▪ Discover new tabs more easily – Whenever
someone adds a new tab at the top of a channel
you belong to, you'll see a New badge right next to
the tab name. It'll disappear once you click into the
tab or after the tab has been up and running for a
week.
▪ Further improvements. In addition, we have also
increased the maximum team size to 2,500
members per team.

36. www.SuccessWithTeams.com

38. Additional Resources
▪ A new vision for intelligent communications in Office 365
▪ Microsoft 365: Transform your communications with Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business (Ignite 2017)
▪ Tutorial: Journey from Skype for Business to Teams+
▪ FAQ - Skype for Business & Teams vision
▪ Practical Guidance for implementing Microsoft Teams including Side by Side and Journey from Skype to
Teams documentation at https://aka.ms/SuccessWithTeams
▪ Blog post on Skype features coming to teams including link to roadmap
slides: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Roadmap-for-Skype-for-Business-
capabilities-coming-to-Microsoft/ba-p/119636
▪ Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams: Capabilities Roadmap
▪ Deep dive and Tech Tip videos for Office 365 including Teams content on Coffee in the Cloud via YouTube
(Subscribe Today!) : https://aka.ms/CoffeeintheCloud
▪ 4 ways to leverage Microsoft Teams for project and client management (Teams on Air – YouTube)

39. Christian Buckley
cbuck@collabtalk.com
@buckleyplanet
Thank you very much!

40. cbuck@collabtalk.com +1 425-246-2823 www.CollabTalk.com
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