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Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate (MS-700) Online Training

This associate-level MS-700 training helps you become a Microsoft 365 Certified Teams Administrator Associate. With practical, expert-led Microsoft Teams training, you can build the skills to plan, configure, and manage Teams environments at scale. You’ll learn network design using Network Planner, implement Microsoft-grade security, compliance, and governance. You'll also learn to manage teams, channels, chats, apps, meetings, calling, and external collaboration. Get comfortable with monitoring performance, automating with PowerShell, generating reports, and troubleshooting issues — all the Teams admin skills you need to pass the MS-700 exam. Don't wing your IT career. Study real-world Microsoft Admin scenarios designed by seasoned IT pros.

Updated August 2025

24Skills
45Videos
20h 46mTotal
45 videos20h 46m

Who This Course Is For

This course is for IT administrators, Microsoft 365 support staff, and help desk leads responsible for collaboration tools in business environments.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Configure policies for Teams meetings and messaging
  • Manage Teams lifecycle and governance with PowerShell and the admin center
  • Deploy Teams apps and manage permissions
  • Enable and configure voice and calling features
  • Monitor usage and troubleshoot performance
  • Secure Teams access using compliance and retention policies

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.Plan network settings for Teams45m
  • Premium skill.QoS and Microsoft Tools48m
  • Premium skill.Microsoft Security and Compliance Features52m
  • Premium skill.Microsoft Threat and Retention Policies45m
  • Premium skill.Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labeling49m
  • Premium skill.Data Loss Prevention and Conditional Access48m
  • Premium skill.Plan and Manage Team Policies49m
  • Premium skill.Managing Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams49m
  • Premium skill.Entra Access Reviews, PowerShell & Microsoft Graph60m
  • Premium skill.Configure and Manage External Collaboration48m
  • Premium skill.Additional External Collaboration Options47m
  • Premium skill.Licensing Teams Accounts and Devices48m
  • Premium skill.Managing Teams Devices and Teams Rooms1h 9m
  • Premium skill.Create and Manage Teams46m
  • Premium skill.Managing Additional Team Settings54m
  • Premium skill.Manage Channels and Chats53m
  • Premium skill.Managing Team Apps1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Configure Meeting Settings and Meeting Templates46m
  • Premium skill.Configure Meeting Policies, Webinars and Townhalls1h 6m
  • Premium skill.Phone Numbers and Voice Settings54m
  • Premium skill.Voicemail Policies and Auto Attendants44m
  • Premium skill.Call Queues and Calling Policies47m
  • Premium skill.Monitor and Report on Teams1h 4m
  • Premium skill.Troubleshoot Audio, Video, and Client Issues53m

Certification

Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate (MS-700)

The Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge of IT professionals in configuring, deploying, and managing Microsoft Teams, as well as managing chat, meetings, and calling features. This ce...

Exam MS-700Level AssociateDifficulty IntermediateCost $165 USD
Microsoft Teams managementCollaboration solutionsSecurity and complianceIntegration with Microsoft 365 servicesTroubleshooting Teams issues
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For IT leaders

What IT leaders need to know before assigning this course

Microsoft Teams outages, uncontrolled guest access, and inconsistent meeting/voice policies create operational risk for organizations that rely on Teams as a primary collaboration platform. This intermediate MS-700 course gives IT Directors a structured way to standardize Teams administration across Microsoft 365, with coverage of network planning, QoS, security and compliance controls, retention, sensitivity labeling, DLP, conditional access, external collaboration, Teams devices, meetings, calling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

The course is a strong fit for Teams Administrators, Microsoft 365 Administrators, collaboration support teams, and help desk leads preparing for Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate. Plan for about 20 hours, 45 minutes per learner, best assigned in phases by responsibility area: security/compliance, collaboration governance, devices/rooms, voice, and support operations. CBT Nuggets Playlists can help Team Leads sequence rollout by role, while Team Reporting gives IT Directors visibility into completion and readiness.

Team Impact

How this training helps your team succeed

IT teams complete this training to reduce risk and improve the reliability of Teams as a business-critical collaboration service. The course maps to real administration scenarios Teams owners face after deployment, not just initial setup.

  • Improve meeting and calling reliability by planning network settings, applying QoS concepts, and using Microsoft tools to monitor Teams performance.
  • Strengthen governance and audit readiness with retention policies, sensitivity labels, DLP, conditional access, threat policies, and Entra access reviews.
  • Control collaboration sprawl by managing Teams policies, Microsoft 365 Groups, channels, chats, apps, external access, and guest collaboration options.
  • Support frontline and executive communications by managing Teams devices and rooms, meeting templates, webinars, town halls, phone numbers, voicemail policies, auto attendants, call queues, and calling policies.

After completion

Knowledge & ability your team will gain

Knowledge

  • How Teams network planning, QoS, and Microsoft monitoring tools affect user experience and service reliability.
  • Where Microsoft security and compliance features apply across Teams collaboration, meetings, chat, and files.
  • How retention policies, threat policies, sensitivity labels, DLP, and conditional access support governance requirements.
  • How Teams policies, Microsoft 365 Groups, channels, chats, and apps shape collaboration controls.
  • How Teams Phone components fit together, including phone numbers, voicemail, auto attendants, call queues, and calling policies.
  • How Teams devices, Teams Rooms, meetings, webinars, town halls, and reporting fit into operational support.

Ability

  • Plan and manage Teams policies for collaboration, meetings, messaging, apps, and external access.
  • Configure and manage Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, channels, chats, and additional team settings.
  • Apply security and compliance controls such as access reviews, sensitivity labeling, DLP, and conditional access.
  • License Teams accounts and devices and manage Teams Rooms and other Teams endpoints.
  • Configure meeting settings, meeting templates, webinars, town halls, Teams Phone settings, voicemail, auto attendants, and call queues.
  • Monitor Teams usage and service quality, then troubleshoot audio, video, and client issues.

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