While at MVP Summit in Seattle earlier this month, I had the opportunity to catch up with my friend and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC. We recorded an episode of Christian’s #MVPbuzzChat series at the famous Microsoft Studios. We talked about about Microsoft Teams; Christian comes from a SharePoint background and I come from UC/SfB. We discussed how...
At Ignite, I had the great opportunity to join Delanda Coleman, Sr. Product Marketing Manager and Dan Stevenson, Principal Group Program Manager on the new “Teams on Air” Vlog (previously Skype for Business Broadcast) in this episode we cover all the Microsoft Teams announcements at Ignite and demo some of the new features, talk about how Modality Systems uses Microsoft Teams today, and discuss...
It’s been a crazy busy week and Ignite with loads of great content. Here are a few things you should check out if you want to get deeper into the content. First off the sessions are available on demand with PowerPoints here: , you can also download the Videos and PPTX with this great script from Michel de Rooij, The Skype for Business MVP’s have been live blogging key sessions, you can find there...
Via Thomas Binder here, The Skype Academy team partnered with the Office 365 Center of Excellence (CoE) of Microsoft Consulting Service, to create the following trainings to help all customers and partners leverage Skype for Business Online. Cloud PBX Introduction: This session by @Thomas Binder, Senior Program Manager on the Customer Experience and Deployment team, explains what Cloud PBX is and...
Interesting collaboration news at the end of last week. Cisco announced it’s intent to acquire Acano. Acano is a conferencing and collaboration MCU bridging and gateway solution that allows interop between various platforms, all joining the same collaboration meeting, most notably Lync/Skype for Business interop with Video endpoints like those from Cisco. It is deployable on prem and cloud...