Microsoft has introduced a new collaboration feature on Office 365 called Microsoft Team.
Microsoft Team is built on top of Office 365 Groups, SharePoint, Exchange and OneNote (plus off course Azure AD for the identity/authentication)
As part of this introduction, the whitelisted endpoints has been updated – so if you are filtering internet access from your corporate network you will need to update your configuration to include the new URL’s used by Microsoft Team
Microsoft Team is available for the following SKU’s:
- Business Essentials
- Business Premium
- Enterprise E1, E3, E4 (for those still with this retired SKU) and E5
Whitelisted Endpoints
| Purpose | Source | Destination | Port |
| Microsoft Team Web Access | Client | *.teams.microsoft.com | TCP 443` |
| Email notification service | Client | emails.teams.skype.com | TCP 443 |
| Calling Media Relay Service | Client | 13.107.8.0/24 | TCP 443 UDP 3478-3481 |
| Chat Service | Client | *msg.skype.com | TCP 443 |
| 1:1 Calling | Client | *cc.skype.com | TCP 443 |
| Azure Media Service | Client | *asm.skype.com | TCP 443 |
| Global Traffic Manager | Client | s-0001.s-msedge.net s-0002.s-msedge.net |
TCP 443 |
| Global Configuration Manager | Client | *.config.skype.com | TCP 443 |
Enable Microsoft Team
To enable Microsoft Team preview on your tenant, logon to the Office 365 Admin portal and go to the Settings\Apps section and enable Microsoft Team service
Then you can enable/disable the additional services – by default all services are enabled except the Bots one
Client Requirements
To take advantage of Microsoft Team, the following clients are supported:
- OS
- Windows 7 to 10
- MacOS 10.10 and later
- Windows 10 Mobile – 10.0.10586 and later
- Android 4.4 and later
- iOS 9 and later (iPhone and iPad0
- Browser
- Chrome 51.0 and later
- FireFox 47.0 and later
- Microsoft Edge 12 and later
- Internet Explorer 11 and later
Safari is not yet supported
A desktop client is also available to support real time communication; the client can be downloaded from https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads
The mobile device client can NOT be deployed with any software deployment solution.
Real Time Communication Client
The client is automatically installed without any user intervention. Once completed, the client loads himself; it will be available on the systray
Then you just need to authenticate against your Office 365 tenant
The real time communication client has access to your Exchange Online mailbox as well as your SharePoint Online / OneDrive for Business sites.
This will allow you to collaborate with your peers without having to exit and use Outlook to check your calendar availability for example
To create a team, just access the Teams section and create a new one; if you are already using Office 365 Groups, you can reuse them to create a team
Web Client
To access Microsoft Team with your browser, just go to https://teams.microsoft.com
Same as for the real time communication client, you will be asked to authenticate (depending of your browser configuration and authentication method used, this may be automatic)
You have the same functionalities than with the real time client
