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With the world attempting to return to normal, organizations that have embraced Teams need to think about how to get the most out of it however you will operate moving forward. The good news is all the firefighting and urgency and late nights trying to get the business operational is behind us. Home users are up and running, devices are connected, and the business now relies on Microsoft Teams to achieve its collaboration and communication needs.

In the middle of March this year, Microsoft reported that the number of daily Teams users jumped by about 37% in just one week in response to many organizations shifting their workforce to work from home. Your organization may have been part of that jump. The initial desire was to facilitate an ability for employees that normally working in the same office to continue to collaborate and meet remotely. Teams helped you accomplish that.

IT executives, operators, and administrators can quickly assess end-user availability and performance experience based on Microsoft 365 services’ critical data from end-to-end monitoring. This eases their day-to-day tasks by reliable reporting data, troubleshooting information, and end user experience for their Microsoft 365 services.

Employees in an organization expect instant support and turnaround to their issues when they contact the internal helpdesk. To facilitate this, companies invest a significant amount of time and money to build and implement self-service portals. But this makes little or no impact on the self-service adoption numbers. This is because self-service portals are still external to employees. It’s difficult for employees to remember the tool or the access URL to reach out for help.

User account creation is a long-winded process that involves various configurations. Such a tiresome, manual process is naturally prone to errors, especially while creating user accounts in bulk. Errors made in the user provisioning process will result in frustrated users calling the service desk to request permission to access resources, to be added to the appropriate groups, to update missing profile details, etc. Why provisioning users through the Admin Center is inefficient.

Microsoft Office 365 has an upper hand over other tools. The Office 365 ecosystem enables users to easily collaborate while working remotely. Users have a range of solutions to choose from and Office 365 offers an additional advantage – easy integration between these tools. Microsoft Office 365 has over 200 million monthly active users.