Life cycle management
Life cycle management describes how you're going to manage the core Microsoft Teams team object (and its underlying Microsoft 365 group), from its inception through to the end of its useful life, when the organization has decided the team is no longer needed.
In this section, we'll discuss managing the entire course of a team object's life cycle, from creation and naming through retirement.
Provisioning and retirement
The life cycle of a team begins with its creation. While Microsoft's broad intention for Microsoft Teams is that users can create teams when their business needs justify it, there may be times when it's necessary (or beneficial) to put some controls around how and when teams are created (and what they're named).
As you learned back in Chapter 1, Taking a Tour of Microsoft Teams, a team is built upon the foundation of a Microsoft 365 group. The Azure AD Premium P1 and P2 subscription plans offer several life...
