In Microsoft Teams, the name of your internal contacts is displayed in the format found in the displayName field in Azure AD. For some organizations this is never an issue. However, some larger and older organizations still use the Last name, First name as their display name format. This format dates back to some perceived… Read More
Today I was asked whether it is possible to stop the Teams desktop client from automatically loading on start-up once deployed to a user. The reason we have to consider this is because IT need to control the deployment of the application and therefore we all know that deployment success rates are hard to achieve… Read More
OK, so you’re probably wondering what the title is all about? I do have a point let me explain… Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams. It seems that Microsoft Teams is everywhere at the moment, in all internet literature. Look how productive I am with Microsoft Teams, Look how I only look at my email… Read More
If you are considering rolling out Teams into your organization that already has a Skype for Business user base, you will need to understand the effects of Microsoft Teams policies, Client Modes and Interoperability. Out of the box functionality takes care of the standard interop between Skype for Business Online and Teams. By default, users… Read More
Well Skype for Business Server 2019 got released in Public Preview alongside Exchange and Sharepoint distros this week and there has been lots of noise about feature removals and quiet squeaks about feature additions. It comes as no surprise really as Microsoft turns the cloud up to eleven and trail blaze into a seemingly cloud… Read More
This is just a quick post to cover off the mysteries of policy assignment with Microsoft Teams. Whether you’re applying policies via the Teams admin console or via PowerShell you may be thinking it is a random act of chance as to when the policy will take effect on the target user’s client? A lot… Read More
Being a Skype and Teams consultant I seem to spend my life talking about why it is important to implement Quality of Service even for cloud systems routed over the internet. My mantra is simple, if you can do it and it’s going to make an improvement no matter how little the perception may be,… Read More
Today I was doing some prep work for one of my customers who are going to be implementing Direct Routing in the coming weeks. It is the first opportunity that I have had to really put Direct Routing through its paces. I am fortunate that my lab has a SIP trunk provided by Pure-IP (www.pure-ip.com) so… Read More
Microsoft Teams is really taking off now with organizations seriously considering how they can best take advantage of the technology offered by this product. There is certainly a lot of activity around meeting experiences with various vendors coming to trade shows with their shiny new device for Teams meetings. But being a techie it is… Read More
By default users added to a Microsoft Teams Team that are external users i.e. guest users have a reduced feature capability set compared to an internal user. For instance, in peer to peer conversations a guest user can perform a private group chat, but audio and video functionality is not allowed due to license restriction… Read More