Course Content
Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Training (MS-721)

Module 1: Introduction to Teams meetings and calling

  • Describe Teams meetings and events
  • Describe Teams Phone
  • Describe auto attendants and call queues
  • Describe Microsoft Teams Rooms, Teams meeting room devices, and Teams phones

Module 2: Plan for Teams Phone

  • Plan for a basic Teams Phone deployment
  • Plan for advanced Teams Phone calling options
  • Plan for Teams phones and devices

Module 3: Plan for Microsoft Teams Rooms and Surface Hub

  • Understand the main differences between Microsoft Teams Room for Android and Microsoft Teams Rooms for Windows
  • Explain which accessories, components, and peripherals are mandatory
  • Understand the advantage of Surface Hub
  • Understand the difference between the licensing options
  • Plan and review a physical room layout

Module 4: Plan and optimize network performance for Teams media

  • Describe Teams network requirements
  • Evaluate organizational bandwidth requirements with the Teams Network planner
  • Assess the network using the Teams Network Assessment Tool
  • Optimize network and WiFi for media flow
  • Optimize media flow with QoS

Module 5: Configure and deploy Teams Phone

  • Configure emergency calling addresses
  • Manage Microsoft Calling Plan numbers
  • Setup and manage Operator Connect and Teams Phone Mobile
  • Understand Teams Phone policies and configuration options
  • Configure Audio Conferencing and Communication Credits

Module 6: Configure and deploy Teams Phone with Direct Routing

  • Explain how to configure and connect a Session Border Controller (SBC)
  • Describe the process for configuring simple and advanced voice routing
  • Describe how to provision users, implement number translation, create, and assign dial plans
  • Explain how to configure and connect a Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA)

Module 7: Extend Teams Phone with additional services

  • Describe how Teams Phone interacts with other Microsoft services
  • Configure and integrate third-party policy-based compliance recording
  • Configure and integrate third-party contact center solutions
  • Design and register Voice Bots for custom-developed solutions

Module 8: Manage meetings and events experiences

  • Understand meetings and events in Microsoft Teams
  • Set up conference bridges
  • Manage meeting policies
  • Configure meeting settings
  • Manage Live events policies
  • Configure Live events settings
  • Explain Live events in Microsoft 365

Module 9: Guided project – Create and assign Teams policies to meet business requirements in Microsoft Teams

  • Create a security group
  • Create and assign a messaging policy in the Teams admin center
  • Create a meeting policy in the Teams admin center and assign it to PowerShell
  • Lab: Create a security group
  • Lab: Create and assign a messaging policy in the Teams admin center
  • Lab: Create a meeting policy and assign it to PowerShell

Module 10: Configure and manage voice users

  • Enable users for Teams Phone using Calling Plans, and Teams Phone Mobile or Operator Connect if it’s configured for your tenant
  • Enable users for Direct Routing
  • Manage per-user options for Teams Phone

Module 11: Configure auto attendants and call queues

  • Describe the differences between auto attendants and call queues
  • Design an auto attendant to gather information from callers
  • Explain how to set up auto attendants to implement your plan
  • Demonstrate how to plan call queues to manage many callers
  • Describe how to configure call queues to alert agents and route calls
  • Explain how to plan to license auto attendants and call queues

Module 12: Configure, deploy and manage Teams devices

  • Understand scenarios for using Teams phones, Teams displays, and Microsoft Teams Rooms with voice services
  • Differentiate between the different options for the deployment and management of devices
  • Deploy Teams phones and Teams displays
  • Configure Teams Phone for Microsoft Teams Rooms
  • Manage Teams devices in the Teams admin center and Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal

Module 13: Guided project – Prepare meeting room experiences

  • Prepare the Microsoft 365 tenant for Microsoft Teams Rooms deployment
  • Create dynamic groups following best practice
  • Disable multi-factor authentication for Microsoft Teams Rooms resource accounts
  • Configure room mailbox properties
  • Lab: Create a dynamic security group
  • Lab: Configure security settings
  • Lab: Create room resource accounts
  • Lab: Configure mailbox properties

Module 14: Monitor and troubleshoot Teams collaboration communications systems

  • Diagnose and troubleshoot phone number assignment
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot Microsoft Teams client issues
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot call failures and quality issues
  • Report on and troubleshoot Teams calls with the Call Quality Dashboard (CQD)
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot Direct Routing issues
  • Troubleshoot and monitor Teams devices using the Teams Rooms Pro Portal