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Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Training (MS-721)
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    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