Create a Global Address book for Teams

Considering the increasing utilization of Microsoft Teams, not only for collaboration but also for advanced workloads such as meetings and calling, I started receiving some questions about how to handle the global address book in Teams.As of today, in Teams you can search for your personal contacts and for colleagues in your organization who are …

Demystify federation between Teams and Skype for Business

It's been a while since my last post, but I've been receiving several questions about the topic lately. I therefore decided to write a post which sheds some light into the federation between Teams and Skype for Business topic. Federation is one of the topics which is evolving quite rapidly, and what's written today (August …

Common Area Phone on Skype for Business online now available

Another requested feature has recently been added to Skype for Business Online: Common Area Phone. According to TechNet: Common area phones are IP phones that are not associated with an individual user. Instead of being located in someone's office, common area phones are typically located in building lobbies, cafeterias, employee lounges, meeting rooms, and other …

Microsoft Flow and Business Processes Revolution

Today, I'll not speak about Teams, but about Microsoft Flow. Since I have recently started looking more in depth into Microsoft Flow and was really pleasantly surprised of what you can do with this service, I would like to highlight the potential of it. For those ones who are not yet familiar with the product, …

Is Skype for Business rebranded into Microsoft Teams?

During the past weeks I had numerous conversations with different partners and customers around Microsoft Teams. In most cases, the general opinion is that Microsoft Teams is perceived as a Skype for Business rebranding.For this reason, I decided to write the present post to clarify what Microsoft Teams really is and what are the main …

Beta PowerShell module for Microsoft Teams has been released

Last week Microsoft officially released the Beta version of Microsoft Teams Powershell Modules that gives you interesting capabilities to automate groups creation and manage them. You can find some documentation and cmdlet examples here. If you don't want to leave the PowerShell ISE, you can get the list of supported cmdlets by running. #Get List of …

Training and Adoption Resources

With the transition to the Cloud, the adoption of a solution became a crucial phase to guarantee the success of an IT project. If in the past the key products in Microsoft's portfolio such as Exchange, Skype, SharePoint, etc. had a life cycle of 3 years, now, in the cloud era, this time has drastically …

Auto Attendant and Call Queue new features

Yesterday the Skype Product Group teams release in General Availability three new capabilities of Auto Attendant and Call Queue: Auto Attendant and Call Queue with hybrid topologies and/or hybrid voice. With this new feature, is now possible to have Auto Attendant and Call Queue in hybrid (split domain) topologies and in hybrid voice topologies (using …

Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams Capabilities Roadmap

Today the new Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams Capabilities Roadmap has been released. The document is divided in Messaging, Meetings and Calling Features. Are you Curious?? Have a look at the following article https://aka.ms/skype2teamsroadmap

Transport Relay aka TRAP on Skype for Business and Teams

One of the most frequent problems you probably faced when implementing a Skype for Business architecture was related to the media relay capabilities for users travelling around the world. In Skype for Business an Edge media Relay is associated to a specific Front End pool. This means that a user homed on that specific pool …

Guest Access on Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration tool which allows users to have a shared collaboration experience powered by well-known Microsoft technologies. Recently, the possibility to add Guest Access to teams has been enabled. This new feature will unlock the possibility to add persons outside of your company to existent teams, enrinching thus the collaboration experience. To enable guest access, you need …

Microsoft Conferencing Service consumption plan

As part of the Microsoft commitment to the Cloud Voice service, a new PSTN Conferencing consumption plan has been presented in the last episode of the SfB Broadcast meeting. Until now, an organization interested in Microsoft Conferencing service features needed a specific user license as part of an E5 plan or as an add-on to …

How to restrict access to Skype for business online using Azure AD Conditional Access

Every time an Office 365 license which includes a Skype For Business Plan is assigned to a user on O365, this user can access Skype for Business from any device. In some scenarios, customers might want to block the access from specific devices for specific group of users. By default, Skype for Business Online doesn't …

Media Bypass in Cloud Connector 2.0

Last July the latest version of cloud connector has been released. One of the substantial changes of this version is the support for media bypass. In this post I will highlight some aspects about this new feature that might be helpful when planning a Voice Cloud Connector solution. As usual, let's start with some theory. …

Where does Microsoft Teams store files?

Microsoft Teams is based on Office 365 Groups.When you create a Team you are creating an Office 365 Group behind the scenes. If you already have an Office 365 Group, you can add a Team to it and leverage all the collaboration features. Note:Because of this strict relationship between Teams and Office 365 Groups, you …