Feb 19 2019 06:28 AM
Hi, Roeland Wiersma here, Projectmanager for Brunel.
We are looking to roll out Teams within our organization but because of the amount of users (at least 2.500, maybe 13.000) we have to be very careful and secure with the rollout, settings, governance and support.
We have piloted Teams in a small group for now and so far the reception is mixed. Even though most people think it is a good product, we also ran into a few issues that raised questions. Will share them all here, thanks a ton in advance for the time to look into any of them. Hoping that with some answers we can move forward on the roll-out because I'm a fan!
Sorry for the long post!
Feb 19 2019 06:36 AM
I can provide some answers:
1. Public teams is a confusing phrase, this just means that anyone in the company can join, it DOES NOT mean that people outside of your company join.
2. MS just added the ability to change the theme of the mobile app to Dark, but they have not announced any ability to allow branding. You don't brand Word or Excel, why would you want to brand Teams?
3. Skype functionality is getting moved to Teams, which is why the settings are connected.
4. MS is working on enabling private Channels.
5. What kind of integration with Outlook do you want? When you are in Outlook, you can create a Teams Meeting.
6. the main roadmap is at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=, and more details are in many of the presentations at Ignite 2018 conference.
Feb 19 2019 06:41 AM
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Feb 19 2019 06:43 AM
Feb 19 2019 06:53 AM
Hi @Rima Reyes, thanks so much for the detailed answer. Really appreciated.
Why are the Teams settings the same as Skype settings (as in if we change external user access for Teams, it also changes for Skype)
We are using an RDS service environment for our "workplace". The Teams desktop app installs in the app data folder of the user which means we can not push the app in this RDS environment.
Feb 19 2019 07:08 AM
Hey Dean,
Thanks as well for your answers! Very much appreciated.
1. As we share documents in Teams that are not for everyone to see, and we identify people make public groups by accident, we would like to switch them all to private.
2. As Teams will be a very core part of our organization and is a new tool a little branding would really add to the user experience and adoption (in my opinion of course, could be wrong!)
3. I see, it is not ideal that it is attached like this but i get it.
4. Just discovered the topic about it. Excellent!
5. I want to be able to see my Email in a tab just like planner, shifts, meetings, files
6. Cheers!
Feb 19 2019 07:31 AM
Actually @Rima Reyes it is not Teams & Skype Admin Center anymore, MS removed the Skype part in the name ;-). But the reason is that Teams and Skype uses the same way/path/service for external access. For Teams there is other ways go connect VTC with the Cloud Video Interop (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/cloud-video-interop) or use native Microsoft Teams Room systems.
Feb 19 2019 11:08 AM
1. the Group/Team owner can change the group type
5. you can add a Website as a tab with an ULR that point to OWA , but you may get some strange behavior.
FYI, every channel has a mailbox so you have mail delivered to the channel and then have a conversation about it.
Feb 21 2019 08:20 AM
Hi Roeland,
I share your concern about rollout of Teams across large organizations. Recent experiences I have seen is users getting very frustrated by the sheer volume of Teams and lack of clarity around their purpose. You definitely need to put a lot of thought into your governance plan before starting any roll out.
It might be worth you considering some form of request based provisioning solution for the creation of Teams. This will let you control who can create Teams, making them default to private and manage the lifecycle.
We have a neat solution at ProvisionPoint which can support with some of these key governance challenges.
Peter