Erwin Bierens

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Get the hell out of Islands Mode

Hurry, hurry, choose wisely

What’s happening? More and more organisations are starting explore Microsoft Teams, and in doing this it’s important to understand the interopability options while running in coexistence (Skype for Business Online and Microsoft Teams next to each other). Like all other vendors, backward compatibility is always difficult ;-) Teams is in this case no exception. First of all, if your tenant was created before november 2018 you are probally running in Islands mode.

Posted by Erwin Bierens Thursday, April 18, 2019

Create Team and Channels with PowerShell

Create Team and Channels with Powershell Creating multiple Teams within Microsoft Teams can be a immense process and time-consuming, but you can easily create your Teams with the use of PowerShell. If you dont have installed the Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module follow this link. The Code $TeamName = "Contoso" $TeamDescription = "Contoso is a fictional company used by Microsoft as an example company and domain." $TeamVisability = "Public" #Public or Private $TeamOwner = "example@contoso.

Posted by erwin Friday, April 12, 2019

Setup Charles Proxy for Microsoft Teams

What is Charles Proxy Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information). Install Charles Proxy You can download the latest version from charlesproxy.com For a full version you will need to buy a license.

Posted by erwin Saturday, March 30, 2019

Microsoft Teams - Live Events

Live Events With Microsoft Teams live events, users in your organization can broadcast video and meeting content to large online audiences. Teams delivers chat-based collaboration, calling, meetings, and with live events, so you can expand the audience of your meetings. Teams live events is an extension of Teams meetings, enabling users to broadcast video and meeting content to a large online audience. These are meant for one-to-many communications where the host of the event is leading the interactions and audience participation is primarily to view the content shared by host.

Posted by erwin Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Remove unknown VM image from ESXi

I’m running a standalone ESXi 6.7.x, during the import of a VM via the web client I cancelled the operation, I now have this entry in the web client that point to a vmx file that doesn’t exists anymore. In the list of virtual machines in the web client I have, as virtual machine name, the path of the vm that doen’t exists and in Status field you will see the “Unknown” value.

Posted by erwin Tuesday, February 12, 2019