Microsoft Teams
Collaboration platform for chat, meetings and shared files.
Microsoft Teams is an application platform for real‑time collaboration and communication. It provides chat, meetings, calling and shared document access and sits on top of your identity and storage services, reachable from desktop, web and mobile clients.
Operational considerations include controlling who can create teams and invite guests, configuring client policies, managing data retention and backups, handling meeting bandwidth and endpoints, and keeping audit logs for troubleshooting and review.
Microsoft Teams governance and compliance
Control who can create teams, manage guest access, apply retention and DLP policies, and keep audit logs for oversight and compliance.
Where Microsoft Teams fits
Teams integrates with your identity provider for authentication and access control and ties into corporate file stores, calendars and telephony. It also links to endpoint management, network infrastructure and can expose third‑party apps or connectors used by staff.
Treat Teams as a user‑facing platform that affects access controls, data protection and device management. Changes here influence how business data is shared externally, network capacity for meetings and the evidence available for internal reviews.