Erwin Bierens

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The end of Skype for Business Online

Move your Skype for Business Online users to Teams

Yesterday (July 30, 2019) Microsoft announced the retirement date of Skype for Business Online. Skype for Business Online will be retired on July 31, 2021, at which point access to the service will discontinue. Until this date customers of Skype for Business Online can expect no change in the service up to its retirement date. With the focus of helping customers transition from Skype for Business Online to Teams, as of September 1, 2019, no new tenants will be on-boarded to Skype for Business Online.

Posted by "Erwin Bierens" Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Jabra PanaCast

Spice up your Huddle (meeting) Room with the new Jabra PanaCast V3

Last week Jabra announced their worlds first smart panoramic 4K video solution! We (my company Detron and I) are lucky to test the PanaCast since there are only 180 (of which 10 in the Netherlands) out in the wild right now. What is the PanaCast? Jabra PanaCast is the world’s first intelligent panoramic video collaboration device with three 13 megapixel cameras, working together as one via core technology embedded in the built-in Jabra PanaCast Vision Processor.

Posted by "Erwin Bierens" Monday, June 17, 2019

Priority Notifications in Microsoft Teams

How to use priority notifications with Microsoft Teams?

What are priority notifications? This feature allows a user to mark a chat message in Teams as “Urgent”. Unlike regular “important” messages, Urgent Messages (also known as “priority notifications”) notify users repeatedly for a period of 20 minutes or until messages are picked up and read by the recipient, maximizing the likelihood that the message is picked up and acted upon in a timely manner. How to enable? IT Admins can manage this feature as part of messaging policies in Teams.

Posted by "Erwin Bierens" Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Busy on Busy in Teams

Enable Busy on Busy in just a few steps!

What is Busy on Busy? Busy on Busy will help you handle a call when a user is already in a call or conference, or has a call placed on hold. New or incoming calls can be rejected with a busy signal or forwarded to voice mail. The Busy on Busy will work across your devices. Enable Busy on Busy in the MoPo Go to the Teams Admin panel Link

Posted by Erwin Bierens Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Migration to Hugo Framework

The journey to a new framework..

My journey in moving to Hugo For more then 10 years I’ve been using Wordpress to run my blog site and now i have made the decission to switch to using Hugo, a static site generator. Now I’d like to share my reasons for doing this, and (perhaps) how you can do this too. WordPress is pretty easy to use, and there are plenty of plugins allowing you to do pretty much anything.

Posted by "Erwin Bierens" Wednesday, April 24, 2019