For years with Lync and Skype for Business deployments we have connected analog devices to Session Border Controllers/Gateways, both to give them PSTN access when removing the PBX and to allow calling between them and Skype for Business. Typical use cases include Lift/Elevator Phones/Overhead PA systems DECT handsets Specialist phone devices (fireproof phones, dealer boards) Existing long runs (I...
I was fortunate to be invited to be on Dominic Kent’s new Unified Comms Influencers Podcast. Dominic is Director of Content Marketing & Communications at Mio and is really on the pulse in our space. His podcast is about diving a bit more into the background of the people in Unified Comms, it’s a great listen. In my interview, we dive into my background where I started at a Cisco UC shop...
Since Chromium Edge went general availability I’ve switched to it as my primary browser away from Google Chrome. One of the useful things chrome had was the ability to create web apps with specific profiles, which allowed me to easily be signed into multiple Microsoft Teams guest access tenants concurrently. I wrote a PowerShell script to generate per tenant chrome web apps in their own dedicated...
It won’t be a shock to most who read this blog that I’m a big fan of video. I think it’d a great way to connect and convey information. Now Microsoft Stream (think enterprise YouTube) iOS and android apps allow you to record and edit in the app and upload direct to Microsoft Stream. It also includes some pretty advanced overlays, annotations and filters. You can also swap between rear- and front...
Edit, shortly after posting the blog 1.0.5 was released with a minor Teams education-specific update, otherwise, it’s the same as 1.0.4 It’s been about 4 months since the last PowerShell module update for Microsoft Teams. In this update: The new version includes: Resiliency improvements on Get-Team cmdlet specially when used in tenants containing a large number of Teams and Unified Groups...