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Microsoft

MS-721 Plan and design Teams collaboration communications systems

Microsoft via Microsoft Learn

Overview

  • Module 1: Understanding of what is included in Microsoft Phone System, what is needed to make and receive phone calls, how to plan for phone system devices, phone system features, and planning for cloud voicemail.
  • At the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • Gain an understanding of how to plan for a basic phone system.
    • Gain an understanding of how to plan for advanced Teams calling options.
  • Module 2: Microsoft Teams relies on network connectivity, and for real-time voice, video, and sharing, good network performance is key to a good user experience. In this module, we go over what the Teams real-time network requirements are, how you can plan and test your network, and how you can design and configure your network to optimize the Teams real-time media performance.
  • At the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • Understand Teams network requirements
    • Determine network requirements using the Teams Network Planner
    • Perform a network analysis using the Teams Network Assessment Tool
    • Design local internet breakout
    • Design and Validate Split Tunnel VPN
    • Optimize WiFi
    • Limit Teams Bandwidth Use with Media Bit Rate configuration
    • Optimize media flow over the LAN and WAN with QoS
  • Module 3: In this module, you'll learn how to plan, configure, and migrate Skype for Business Server Enterprise Voice users and devices to Microsoft Teams. This will allow you to gradually move people from on-premises to the cloud, while maintaining the ability to call internally and externally during the migration. You can also continue to make use of personal and meeting room devices.
  • At the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • Understand how Skype and Teams interact
    • Plan implementation of Skype for Business Server Hybrid
    • Describe the pre-requisites required for migration
    • Configure Skype for Business Server Hybrid
    • Migrate users and devices to Teams
  • Module 4: Teams Phone requires some configuration before users can make calls, receive calls, and use all the features. Microsoft Calling plans or Operator Connect for your PSTN must be configured before phone numbers can be assigned to users.
  • At the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • Configure Emergency Calling Addresses
    • Manage Microsoft Calling Plan Numbers
    • Configure and Manage Operator Connect Numbers
    • Understand phone system policies and the features you need to configure them
    • Configure Audio Conferencing and Communication Credits
  • Module 5: Understand how auto attendants and call queues in Microsoft Teams can interact with callers to ensure they're connected your agents as quickly as possible. You'll also learn how to setup auto attendants and call queues.
  • At the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • 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 licensing for auto attendants and call queues.
  • Module 6: In this module, you'll learn how administrators configure Direct Routing to meet user needs for telephony through a PSTN.
  • At the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • 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: Teams Phone leverages other Microsoft services and can be extended with third-party solutions for policy-based compliance recording, contact center integration, and custom bots.
  • At the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • 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.

Syllabus

  • Module 1: Plan for Teams Phone
    • Introduction
    • Plan usage scenarios for services and users
    • Determine license requirements
    • Plan for Teams Phone devices
    • Plan and design Teams Phone features
    • Plan for voicemail
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 2: Plan and optimize network performance for Teams Phone
    • Introduction
    • Understand Teams network requirements
    • Design network for media optimization
    • Design and implement QoS
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 3: Migrate voice services from Skype for Business Server to Teams
    • Introduction
    • Understand how Skype and Teams interact
    • Plan Teams Hybrid Configuration
    • Implement Teams Hybrid Configuration
    • Migrate to Teams Phone
    • Migrate Skype for Business IP phones
    • Migrate Skype for Business Meeting Room devices
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 4: Configure Teams Phone
    • Introduction
    • Configure emergency calling for Teams Calling Plans
    • Manage and configure Microsoft PSTN numbers
    • Configure Operator Connect
    • Configure Teams Phone policies
    • Configure Audio Conferencing
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 5: Configure auto attendants and call queues
    • Introduction
    • Design call flows for auto attendants and call queues
    • Configure auto attendants and call queues
    • Deploy a channel-based call queue
    • Configure resource accounts
    • Configure Office 365 groups for voicemail
    • Interpret call queue conference modes
    • Interpret call queue routing methods
    • Configure holidays for auto attendants and call queues
    • Configure custom music on hold
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 6: Configure and deploy Direct Routing
    • Introduction
    • Design Direct Routing call flows
    • Implement SIP trunking with Direct Routing
    • Configure Emergency Calling for Direct Routing
    • Extend Teams Direct Routing infrastructure
    • Deploy and maintain a survivable branch appliance
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 7: Extend Teams Phone with additional services
    • Introduction
    • Understand how Teams interacts with additional services
    • Configure compliance recording in Teams
    • Configure and integrate a certified contact center in Teams
    • Design and deploy voice bots in Teams
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources

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