Category Archives: Teams

Quick Post: Pat Richards Get-CsConnections and Polycom devices

Note: To be clear I’m a massive fan of Pat’s work. In fact, I make sure I catch up with him every year when I’m at Ignite! I’ve also been using his Set-CsFeatures.ps1 script since the 2013 days. This is by no means intended as a criticism of his work. Just a quick tip for… Read More »

Emergency Services Notifications and Handling for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing

So after a recent thread over on Twitter discussing the legalities of the E911 laws in the states (I’m an Australian) as well as the fact that Enterprise Voice is now easy enough to deploy that its getting deployed by Office365 administrators without traditional telephony experience. I figured I’d take a few minutes to publish… Read More »

Preparing for Teams: Decommissioning on Prem Persistent Chat

So, I’m starting a new series of posts called “Preparing for Teams” and how I’m helping my customers transition from Lync 2013 and Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams Today I’m talking about decommissioning your existing On Premises Persistent Chat servers as we have to moved these workloads into Teams Note this article doesn’t cover… Read More »

Stop Comparing Teams to Slack

There, I said it. I said the S word. More specifically Teams versus Slack. And no, I don’t hate Slack. I think its great actually! It has it’s place as do most productivity tools do. Heck, I still use it for our DnD sessions! But that’s because I don’t need anything more complicated than a… Read More »

Microsoft Ignite Day 1 Wrap Up

Well Satya delivered a compelling Keynote this year really pushing home the fact that the technology industry changes so rapidly.Driving one of our ideals that “Change is the only Constant” Looking back into the history of the Automotive industry and what happend to those who failed to adapt to new Electric power over the tried… Read More »

Microsoft Ignite Day 0 and session suggestions

Well. 15,000km later and I’m here in Orlando with plenty of time to recover from jetlag. So what do I do? Record a video for you guys of course. Here are my recommended sessions that if you’re still undecided on what’s worth checking out. Monday Must Do’s KEY01 – Vision Keynotehttps://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/66931 KEY04 – Transform your… Read More »

ProTips for Life at Microsoft Ignite

With Microsoft’s Ignite less than 60 days away some conversation has broken out on Twitter here and after sharing my thoughts there, I thought I’d throw a ton more up here. Not all of my recommendations may apply to you as I fly in from Australia. Typically about 24 hours of flying for those interested. But… Read More »

Logitech Rally Unboxing, Setup and Initial Test

Logitech Rally Camera unboxing, setup and testing. 4K Pan Tilt 15x Zoom Camera for Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business and other Unified Communications solutions.     Click here for raw 4K 30FPS sample footage And here for raw 1080 60FPS sample footage What did you think? Comment down below or check out the blog look at… Read More »