Now that Microsoft Teams video blur is GA, go ahead and use it! After you have a video meeting going…click More Actions | Blur my background
Without blue my background
On
I love this elegantly simple feature.
To see more Microsoft Teams User Tips:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/search/label/MicrosoftTeamsUserTip
.[Video] Learn Microsoft Teams in 5 Minutes:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2016/11/learning-microsoft-teams-in-5-minutes.html
This blog will be updated to include my notes about all things Microsoft Teams at Microsoft Ignite 2012. You can also follow me on twitter at https://twitter.com/matthewlandis
Microsoft Article: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/What-s-new-in-Teams-Ignite-Edition/ba-p/252531
** Features We Knew About That Are Now GA **
Live Events (GA)
Background Blur (GA)
** Ecosystem **
Polycom & Pexip video interop -GA (Blue Jeans in Preview)
http://imaucblog.com/archive/2018/09/24/cloud-video-interop-for-microsoft-teams/
New Teams purpose built devices from Crestron and Yealink
Plantronics Mobile Phone Station, Plantronics Elara 60 Series: dock, button to invoke teams
https://twitter.com/Plantronics/status/1044194868883595265
Jabra device w/ button to launch Microsoft Teams
room systems team
Yealink is Now a Room System Partner
Microsoft Calls & Meetings APIs Now In Public Preview
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/api-reference/beta/resources/calls-api-overview
** Convergence **
Microsoft will bring Yammer Tab into Teams (Upcoming)
Streamlining Teams lifecycle: Admin can (October 2018)
Dynamic Teams Management
Microsoft Teams Verticals (Healthcare, Frontline workers)
Device Program Certification Program--Optimized for Microsoft Teams (Devices)
Device Management Solution: managed Teams devices from within Teams Admin Console
Below is the process to setup a free Microsoft Teams account starting with a Gmail account.
A few things before we start that you are probably wondering:
Go to http://office.com/teamsfree. Click sign up for free account.
Now type in email address & “Set up account”
Create Account
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Click “Set up account”
Create account
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Now the account is setup.
Next we will tell Microsoft about this user.
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Run Microsoft Teams for 1st Time and select org.
(for me it seemed to list Teams tenants that had invited this email address.)
(a popup to re-enter my username [email address])
Now you can invite more people to join your org
How to manage your Teams org:
Conclusion
I was impressed by the smoothness of setting up a new Microsoft Teams organization with an non Microsoft email address. The built in administration is very simple.
This below script shows Teams statistics from an Administrator’s point of view using Exchange Online PowerShell.
$UserCredential = Get-Credential
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $Session
The below PowerShell will look for all the “UnifiedGroups” that have a Microsoft Teams chat folder in them (effectively groups that are Microsoft Teams Groups) and put them into an object. Note: This PowerShell will take a while to run, even on a small Office 365 tenant.
$TeamsStats = Get-UnifiedGroup | Get-MailboxFolderStatistics | ? {$_.Name -eq “Team Chat”}
Now you can see which teams are new and active to run clean up procedures you want. Below are some examples:
$TeamsStats | ? {$_.LastModifiedTime -lt (get-date).AddDays(-90)} | Format-Table Identity, Name, ItemsInFolder, LastModified*, creationtime
$TeamsStats | ? {$_.CreationTime -gt (get-date).AddDays(-30)} | Format-Table Identity, Name, ItemsInFolder, LastModified*, CreationTime
Obviously you can do your other creative checks and tests as well and trigger automatic or manual actions on specific teams now, armed with this information.
Tony Redmond PowerShell for Inspiration
https://www.petri.com/teams-compliance-story
Find Teams Enabled o365 Groups
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams/Teams-enabled-O365-Groups-report-workaround-in-PowerShell/td-p/141029
How to determine Microsoft Teams Ring you are on (from Browser or Teams App):
That’s all.
To see more Microsoft Teams User Tips:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/search/label/MicrosoftTeamsUserTip
.[Video] Learn Microsoft Teams in 5 Minutes:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2016/11/learning-microsoft-teams-in-5-minutes.html
NOTE: This device is NOT Skype for Business Certified
I was perusing simple multiline AT&T desk phones at my local Staples when I noticed a phone with this sticker on it: “AT&T Softphone Call Manager—Compatible with Microsoft Lync”. What?!
I decided to just take it along home and investigate how this phone interfaces with Skype for Business & Office 365 Phone System, not the least because we have common scenario in Office 365 Phone System implementations in small offices who just need one simple, good ole, DECT portable phone.
I quickly discovered that this phone is designed to act as a USB phone for Lync (explicitly for Lync in the documentation, but because of the shared desktop API, by extension it seems to work with Skype for Business and Office 365 Phone System! Note: This devices is NOT Skype for Business Certified!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu7VnTl4T7Y
Setup involves a few simple steps:
To answer a call: An incoming call on Skype for Business will ring the desk phone and DECT handset and you can answer by picking up the handset.
To make a call: According to manuals you should be able to dial on the handsets and press the “PC Call” soft button, but in my test this fails after a few seconds. So you seem to need to make calls from the Skype for Business client, which works fine in my tests.
I’ve often wonder why vendors don’t do exactly what AT&T (aka VTech aka Advanced American Telephone) has attempted to do with this phone. Yes, some Chinese vendors have made half hearted attempts with very mediocre USB hardware, but why not traditional phone hardware with a USB connection to a PC?
My thought in written this article is mainly to save others the time of testing how (& if) it works. I think needing to use Skype for Business client to dial out will be a show stopper for many scenarios. (but not all) A secondary reason is: if someone has found a fix for the issue of it not correctly dialing out, please comment.
But for this one, but significant issue, it could solve a common challenge for small business wanting to implement Office 365 Phone System.
Download AT&T Softphone Call Manager: https://telephones.att.com/downloads/tl86103
Install Guide AT&T Softphone Call Manager for TL8603: https://att.vtp-media.com/products/TL/TL86XX3/TL86103_Installation_and_Operation_Guide_i6.0_20170116.pdf
Amazon AT&T TL86103; https://www.amazon.com/TL86103-Connect-Answering-Waiting-Cordless/dp/B00LI8Q7WI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522766466&sr=8-1&keywords=at%26t+tl86103+expandable+phone+system
What should be easier than creating a folder in a Team and copying multiple files to it from various Mobile devices? At the moment this is stymied by several Microsoft Teams limitations:
This process will essentially require a desktop Teams client to get started, then mobile users can contribute.
1 - Create a file folder in a team using Microsoft Teams on a PC.
2 - Now open this folder using Sharepoint (Open in Sharepoint) to get the Sharepoint URL.
3 - Next, copy the Sharepoint URL into a Conversation in this team labeled something like “Link to efficiently upload file to this folder”
4 – Now on Mobiles and PC’s users can click on the Sharepoint URL and efficiently send multiple files to this Teams folder.
5 – On the mobile devices click on the Sharepoint URL | “…” | Upload | Files | and now select the multiple files to be uploaded…
To see more Microsoft Teams User Tips:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/search/label/MicrosoftTeamsUserTip
.[Video] Learn Microsoft Teams in 5 Minutes:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2016/11/learning-microsoft-teams-in-5-minutes.html
Microsoft started EC18 with a bunch of announcements, demonstrating the rapid (even dizzying) pace of development of their Microsoft Teams product. Some of the big items include:
Read more details here: https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2018/03/12/microsoft-teams-turns-1-advances-vision-for-intelligent-communications/
Both Yealink and AudioCodes have prelease demonstration models of Microsoft Teams native desk phones running Microsoft developed android app.
I’ve done a blog listing some of the items we know about these new devices along with a quick first look video here: https://twitter.com/matthewlandis/status/973277978590433281
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2018/03/microsoft-teams-phone-application-first.html
Fellow MVP, Tom Arbuthnot has written an article on new devices as well:
http://tomtalks.uk/2018/03/microsoft-teams-ip-desk-phones-and-room-phones/
To demonstrate how big Lenovo is betting on their new SRS, they have a complete booth dedicated to their SRS device.
Polycom Trio, Yealink CP960 and Crestron Mercury. See Tom’s article: http://tomtalks.uk/2018/03/microsoft-teams-ip-desk-phones-and-room-phones/
Embrava brings a presence light that includes a name display for dynamics office spaces.
https://twitter.com/matthewlandis/status/973394294898864128
Our team is announcement and showing an Office 365 (Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business Online & Skype for Business Server) Contact Center at Booth 744.
https://twitter.com/attendantpro/status/973182890283585536
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktixqkeNclk&feature=youtu.be
A few items about Skype for Business PowerShell https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn362795(v=ocs.15).aspx
Fellow MVP Curtis Johnson notes PowerShell sessions will be throttled if there is repeated read or write PowerShell executed. See his full article: http://blog.insidelync.com/2017/09/skype-for-business-online-powershell-throttling-limits/
My Experience
I would welcome your input on what you have found on Skype for Business (Phone System) PowerShell throttling.
How to get All Services in one PowerShell Session:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/powershell/connect-to-all-office-365-services-in-a-single-windows-powershell-window
This blog outlines the steps to use a Polycom VVX IP phone as a native Office 365 Phone System interface to an overhead paging system.
This solution achieves
What You Will Need
Overview of the Steps
In our testing we used a VVX600, but likely for an overhead paging system the Polycom VVX 201 would be lower cost and sufficient Office 365 device.
Just get the phone signed into Office 365 Phone System (aka Cloud PBX, Skype for Business Online or Microsoft Teams in the future.). This solution also works with Skype for Business Server as well.
Once the phone is working and can make calls, we are ready for the next step.
First you will need a cable to go between the handset jack on the phone and your audio system. Something like the Onvian RJ9 Male to 2 3.5mm Female Headset Phone MIC Audio Splitter Adapter Cable 2 Pack will provide an 1/8” (3.5mm) from audio system.
Remove the physical handset & its cord. (you will not need these anymore). Now plug this into the handset jack. (not the headset jack) on the back of the VVX phone.
For our test we will use a PC speaker as our “speaker system”. (this will typically be a Bogen/Valcom or other speaker amplifier system)
Below are the settings necessary on the VVX phone.
Based on our testing, rebooting the phone should not disturb your settings, which means if you have a power outage and the VVX reboots there should be no surprises.
Now you should be able to call this phone from any Skype for Business client or other phone and it will play over the speaker connected.
Repeat the above steps with another phone.
You can setup a preannouncement beep, but this will involve setting up a VVX provisioning server (essentially a simple FTP server) and changing a few others settings. [This article will be updated later to include these steps.]
The only one I can think of at the moment:
This is a fairly straightforward overhead speaker solution that works for Office 365 Phone System and Skype for Business Server.
Thanks to:
Other solutions:
https://myuc.blog/2017/05/26/how-do-you-do-paging-with-cloudpbx/
In this Microsoft Teams user tip we will take a look at the new Desktop Sharing Give Control functionality.
You click on Share Desktop and then select a Screen if you have more than 1.
Now the screen you just shared will have a red border indicating its shared.
To give control to another user in the meeting you may need to hover in the center top of the shared screen to get the control. (For me, sometimes the Give Control panel doesn’t show on initial sharing, as shown below)
Hover center top to get the control
That’s it.
Of course, another user in the call can request control, The button is in the lower left of the video canvas.
A nice surprise is that Microsoft Teams Desktop sharing has two mouse pointers:
The user who is not currently controlling the screen has a black mouse pointer [2 in screenshot] and the user actively controlling the screen has a normal pointer. [1 in screenshot below]
By a single click in the shared screen the local user and user given control can toggle who has active control of the mouse at the moment.
There is a small amount of lag, but Microsoft Teams shows this by allowing the remote mouse to trail your local mouse. This is my opinion nicely indicates what is happening in a natural way.
I think Desktop Sharing Control has been nicely implemented and will be a welcome features to all users!
To see more Microsoft Teams User Tips:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/search/label/MicrosoftTeamsUserTip
.[Video] Learn Microsoft Teams in 5 Minutes:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2016/11/learning-microsoft-teams-in-5-minutes.html
