Solutions2Share, the company behind Teams Manager, was established over a decade ago. It has been a Microsoft Partner right from the beginning, with a special focus on SharePoint and now on Microsoft Teams. Importantly, Solutions2Share is a Microsoft Gold Partner and is accredited for adhering to Rencore Development Best Practices.
Solutions2Share has a vast portfolio of solutions to choose from, from collaboration managers for SharePoint to file managers and MindMap for Teams, and intranet products. Teams Manager is part of the company’s Microsoft Teams Governance solutions suite. It allows you to keep track of governance activities and ensure that the Teams user base, metadata, access policies, etc. are kept up to date. It also streamlines Teams request management, providing your end-users with a better experience.
Teams Manager is a paid app starting at €99/ per month, with custom pricing for over 4000 users. Let us now review its feature capabilities.
Inside Teams Manager for Microsoft Teams
For Teams administrators, maintaining governance best practices can be a challenge as your organisation grows, onboards new users, and builds out the Teams ecosystem with native/third-party integrations, tools, and apps. Bottlenecks in Microsoft Teams management can endanger security, interrupt the end-user’s productivity, or cause fragmentation in your It landscape. That’s where a tool like Teams Manager steps in – allowing you to view, manage, and orchestrate Teams deployments from within the Teams app.
Here are its key features.
- Team template creation – This is one of the most compelling capabilities you’ll find in the Teams Manager app for Microsoft Teams. Administrators can create custom team templates and structures by using an existing team as the starting point. They can then customise this further, with additional apps, folders, member permissions, and content from One Note and Planner. A pre-selected group of users are notified about these new templates so they can test, suggest changes, and approve.
- Teams policy management – Teams Manager lets you configure and enforce a variety of policies, including naming conventions, team lifecycle management, and team classification. These features are available from the settings tab on the Teams Manager app for Microsoft Teams.
- De-duplication and policy checks – Teams Manager automates this vital activity that can occupy an increasing amount of your time as your organisation grows. It will identify teams that exist in multiple avatars across the organisation, with the same kind of metadata, structure, policies, etc. Regular deduplication ensures there are no cracks in your security posture, and fragmentation is curtailed.
- Teams request and approval workflows – Teams manager enables an automated workflow for processing and approving new requests. A designated user group is pre-assigned (along with the necessary privileges) to quickly review and approve requests for new teams and new users. This dramatically reduces your admin workloads and also speeds up the approval/provisioning process.
- Intuitive onboarding experience – Teams Manager makes it easy for Teams administrators to get started. This is vital, as the app’s primary purpose is to simplify Teams deployment and maintenance, which can sometimes appear complex or overwhelming to new users and smaller organisations. The app welcomes users through adaptive cards, redirecting to an interactive tutorial.
- No code template design – It should be mentioned that you don’t require any coding expertise or programming knowledge to get started with Teams template design. Teams Manager is entirely GUI-based, eliminating the need to use CLI commands as in PowerShell.
- Detailed analytics – You can view important metrics and analytics insights right from your Teams manager dashboard on Microsoft Teams. It will tell you if there are ownerless teams, unused teams, and teams that have remained inactive over a prolonged period of time. This feature also generates trend reports on Teams usage so that you can plan for future deployments.
Why the Teams Manager App Solutions2Share by Makes a Difference
Teams Manager can be an extremely useful add-on for companies with growing Microsoft Teams dependencies. A major USP to note is the availability of webhook packages for integration, which means you could technically connect the app with third-party IT service platforms to relay data in real-time. Apart from this, its core value proposition – i.e., the ability to maintain team structure consistency and security without complex, code-based workflows – is truly unique, and a vital business need for any organisation.
