One of my former peers pinged me the other day asking if I had a script in my back pocket that would allow an analyst at a customer to get a list of Teams, whether they were public or private, and who the owners were.… [ Continue reading ]
Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions book giveaway
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Just got a few promo copies of my new book, Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions in the mail and decided to start giving them away. I’m going to run a giveaway from now until July 15th to give away a copy of my book.… [ Continue reading ]
Update: Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions available for pre-order
And it’s a wrap! Thanks to our great team for working tirelessly to make this an exciting and complete book covering the entire Teams experience.
Thanks to everyone on our scoping, authoring and review team (Yura, Grant, Angel, and Alan) who helped get this book over the finish line. … [ Continue reading ]
Update: Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions available for pre-order
Apologies for the delay–but with the advent of Operator Connect and a few other new features, we wanted to make sure we brought you the most up-to-date desk reference for configuring Microsoft Teams. We’ve also included a great flow chart on the number porting process, which we think will be really helpful to organizations starting up with cloud voice!… [ Continue reading ]
Quick-and-dirty Catch-All Mailbox for GCC Channel Meeting Invitations
It’s well-known that our Government Community Cloud instance of Office 365 doesn’t support emailing a channel. This can be problematic when you are attempting to schedule a channel meeting and include recipients not on the platform. What ends up happening is the recipient can actually receive an NDR (because they can’t send the meeting acceptance back to the channel).… [ Continue reading ]
Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions available for pre-order
At long last, I’m pretty excited to announce this labor of love with some of my peers / teammates:
We’re still finalizing a few things (so a few chapter titles/headings may change), but here’s the top level outline:
Chapter | Title | Topics |
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1 | Teams Overview | Azure AD architecture Organization and user interface Instant messaging, chat, and presence Calendaring Mobile Devices |
2 | Approvals | Creating and responding to approvals Administration of the Approvals app |
3 | Task Management | Planner, To Do, and the Tasks App |
4 | Bookings | Creating and managing a booking calendar Integration with other apps and services |
5 | Meetings | Scheduled, Ad-hoc, and Channel meetings Meeting features (including transcription, recording, webinars, break-out rooms, and registration) Meeting options Audio conferencing |
6 | Meeting Room | Licensing and configuring Meeting Rooms Room scheduling Meeting room devices |
7 | Live Events | Scheduling live events Presenting and sharing content and invitations External meeting production |
8 | Teams app development | Building and publishing apps in Teams |
9 | Workflow integration | Connecting Power Automate to Teams, including posts and notifications |
10 | Power Virtual Agents | Creating and publishing chat bots |
11 | Phone System | Terminology, including calling plans, communication credits, conferencing, and emergency policies Calling features Licensing |
12 | Cloud Phone System Architecture | Cloud-only and direct-routing configurations Implementing phone system features, including E911, creating and assigning phone numbers, policies (call park, calling, caller ID, emergency) Configuring outbound calling |
13 | Microsoft Teams devices | Working with phones, Teams rooms, collaboration bars, and Teams displays |
14 | Planning and adoption | The Microsoft Teams adoption framework |
15 | Governance | Identity and authentcation Compliance (including retention and information barriers) Lifecycle management (including provisioning and access packages |
16 | Integration with Exchange Hybrid | Enabling and configuring hybrid connectivity between Teams and Exchange |
17 | Security and Data Protection | Conditional Access, Data Loss Prevention |
18 | Reporting | Call Quality Dashboard, Call detail reports, User-based call reports, Live events, Teams usage |
You can go pre-order it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09DDV1WR6… [ Continue reading ]
Update to Teams Auto Answer Script
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It looks like there may have been an encoding problem for some folks with the recent update of the Teams-AutoAnswer script. I’ve updated the encoding in the file and re-posted it, so please let me know if you have problems.… [ Continue reading ]
Manually Disable Skype for Business COM Add-In for Outlook
Today, I was asked about manually disabling the Skype of Business Outlook plug-in for a customer where users have both Skype and Teams clients and are configured in Islands mode.
This is what I came up with. You can save it and drop it in a computer startup script as well as a user logon (since the script modifies both HKLM and HKCU).… [ Continue reading ]
Auto-Answer Teams call with Video and PowerShell
UPDATE: An updated version script is now available on the PowerShell Gallery at https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Teams-AutoAnswer/.
Today, while working with my esteemed colleague Stephen Jones, we were discussing a need for some of our customers to auto-answer Teams with a video call. … [ Continue reading ]
Create Teams meeting invite to allow recipients to join via web automatically
Here’s a quick tip:
For organizations that may not have rolled out the Teams client yet and may want recipients to one-click join meetings without having to interact with this page:
There’s a way. It takes a little bit of work when scheduling your meeting, but it can be done.… [ Continue reading ]
Teams Private Channel eDiscovery
Yesterday, I was asked about the eDiscovery process for Private Channels in Teams.
It’s a little bit hairy at the moment, so I’ve included some scripting and examples to help you out with it.
[shameless plug] I’ve adapted some of this content from one of my books, Deploying Microsoft 365 Teamwork: Exam MS-300 Guide.[/shameless… [ Continue reading ]
Bulk Converting Office 365 Groups to Teams
This week, while working with one of my peers, a request came in to bulk convert all Office 365 groups to Microsoft Teams. In the Teams UI, you’re only presented the choice to upgrade groups you own, one at a time, to Teams.… [ Continue reading ]
Creating a Teams “New Channel” notification
One of my customers recently asked for a solution to checking a particular Microsoft Team multiple times a day for new channel additions. In their organization, someone is responsible for creating a new channel every time new item for review is published, and then all of the communications, files, and data related to that item is stored in that particular time.… [ Continue reading ]