Teams On Air: Ep. 65 Direct Routing for enterprise voice in Microsoft Teams Summary

Microsoft Teams Direct Routing announcement came out at Enterprise Connect and last Thursday 29th March there's was a Teams on Air Broadcast with Nikolay Muravlyannikov. I missed the live broadcast as it was my son’s 2nd birthday and we were out at peak wildlife park chasing rabbits and wallabies. Few pictures below. Shout out to … Continue reading Teams On Air: Ep. 65 Direct Routing for enterprise voice in Microsoft Teams Summary

Plan and configure Hybrid Voice in Skype for Business and Office 365–Ignite 2017 Summary

An oldie but definitely a goodie from Ignite 2017 presented by Nikolay Muravlyannikov and Carolyn Blanding. I Stumbled across this session and thought ive write up a summary on the session. Keep in mind this is Hybrid Voice with Skype for Business and not Teams and was presented before Microsoft Teams Direct Routing was announced. … Continue reading Plan and configure Hybrid Voice in Skype for Business and Office 365–Ignite 2017 Summary

MVP Summit 2018 – My first summit !

Wow! its been a busy one since i got back from MVP summit and I've just got time to sit down. We finally moved into our new house so it was straight from the airport and move the kids over to our new house and were in. Also been catching up on work since the … Continue reading MVP Summit 2018 – My first summit !

Skype for Business Server March 2018 Cumulative Update

Noticed last Friday on twitter there’s been a new Cumulative Update for Skype for Business Server, im just getting round to blogging about it. There's been debate on whether this is CU7 or CU6 HF2, Greig had this posted on his Blog and had confirmation its CU6 HF2. Thanks Greig and Tim for confirmation. So … Continue reading Skype for Business Server March 2018 Cumulative Update

SfB Online Common Area Phone – my experience so far

With the recent announcement that there's a Common Area SKU in Office 365 i wanted to dust off my Polycom VVX and take a look at configuring it. Turns out ive had quite a few issues and i dont think its fully there yet in SfB Online or im probably doing it wrong. I have … Continue reading SfB Online Common Area Phone – my experience so far

Enterprise Connect – Revolutionizing collaboration & communications with Intelligent Communications through Microsoft Teams Summary

There's a lot of announcements over in Orlando at Enterprise Connect and i wanted to make sure i watched the Microsoft keynote and here's a summary of the session. Bob Davies CVP of Office 365 Engineering One of a helpful of founders of Office 365 from 1 users to 120 millions users Intelligent Every day … Continue reading Enterprise Connect – Revolutionizing collaboration & communications with Intelligent Communications through Microsoft Teams Summary

On route to MVP Global Summit

After being awarded Microsoft MVP on 1st February then moving house and now im off to MVP Global summit its been a whirlwind of a month really and not had much time to research the MVP summit as much as i had liked so i hope the links below help people visiting for the first … Continue reading On route to MVP Global Summit

Skype for Business Mac Client February 2018 Update Summary

  There's been an update to the Skype for Business for Mac client ! Ive been moving house this week so been a little side tracked but now the internets in and desk is up im just catching up so this may be old news for some but lets take a looky at this update. … Continue reading Skype for Business Mac Client February 2018 Update Summary

Microsoft Teams Whiteboarding via Freehand by InVision App

One thing i find really useful with Skype for Business is whiteboarding, it helps me and someone else explain what they are discussing via a drawing on a virtual whiteboard. I've was looking round the Microsoft Teams Apps and noticed Freehand by InVision. A screenshot of the app is below. Looking over Freehand it looks … Continue reading Microsoft Teams Whiteboarding via Freehand by InVision App

Microsoft Teams first look at Anonymous Join, Lobby, Edge and Chrome

So after watching the announcement on Teams On Air that anonymous join and Lobby were here, and Meeting join via Edge and Chrome were here as well i wanted to test it out. The plugin less meeting experience however isn't in SfB meetings and it is very slick experience considering there's no plugins involved. Most … Continue reading Microsoft Teams first look at Anonymous Join, Lobby, Edge and Chrome