Hey all! Today I wanted to highlight this fantastic Microsoft Teams migration series by fellow MVP Loryan Strant. He goes over different “stops” (necessary preparations) people should visit before continuing their migration journey. Check out the first post here!
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Microsoft Teams is a powerful tool that utilises and surfaces a lot of what Office 365 has to offer. However, while Microsoft Teams offers its own services, features, and functionality, a large portion of what you’re going to use it for is actually delivered by other services within the Office 365 platform. Examples of this are Planner for group task management, Forms for surveys and quizzes, SharePoint for file storage, Stream for team meeting recording, and so on.
Microsoft Teams relies on user mailboxes that’re hosted in Exchange Online and are powering the advanced features of Outlook. While Microsoft Teams can technically run without user mailboxes being hosted in Exchange Online, several Office 365 services rely on the mailbox to work fully, if at all. Some of these services use the Exchange mailbox as a store of messaging information, while others just leverage the ability to be able to contact you in the first place.
So far all I’ve addressed is the functionality of Office 365 apps. What’s potentially more important is…
To continue reading about why situating Exchange is vital to your Teams migration, click here.
