The Teams admin center will soon include a 'Best Practice Configurations' dashboard to help monitor and align tenant settings with Microsoft's recommended best practices for optimal collaboration in Teams. This feature will roll out from early December 2024 to mid-January 2025. Admins will be notified of non-conformance in key areas. No preparation is needed from administrators.
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: With the Best practice configurations monitoring dashboard in the Teams admin center, Teams admins will be able to monitor the conformance of your tenant to the Microsoft recommended best practices for an optimal collaboration experience on Teams.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 421185.
When this will happen:
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by mid-January 2025.
How this will affect your organization:
Ensuring the quality and reliability of user's collaboration experience using Teams is crucial (specially the meeting-related experiences). Microsoft recommends best practices to ensure that organizations have an optimal environment setup for collaboration.
The Best Practice Configurations monitoring dashboard will assist admins in understanding their tenant’s non-conformance with these best practices, the overall impact, and how to comply with these recommendations.
You'll find the Best practice configurations dashboard in the Meetings section of the Teams admin center. In this release, we’ll monitor and highlight non-conformance in three key areas:
If a location does not adhere to these best practices, it will be highlighted on the dashboard. A widget on the main dashboard will also spotlight non-conforming practices. Also, a list of subnets/IP addresses will be displayed by city, showing the extent of non-conformance for each location. This list can be exported to share with relevant teams, and recommendations for addressing these issues will be available on the same page.
As these issues are resolved, the trend of non-conforming locations will be tracked to help monitor progress.
This new dashboard will be available by default.
What you need to do to prepare:
Administrators do not need to do anything to prepare for these changes. They will take effect automatically.
You may want to notify your admins about this change and update any relevant documentation.
Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation.