Enable God Mode for Windows 10 and Windows Server

The steps shown in this post will work on Windows Server 2012, 2016, 2019, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. When activated, it is a folder that contains links to all of the settings of your Windows system.

How to enable God Mode in Windows 10

To enable God Mode in windows 10 login to the Windows 10 client with account that has administrative privileges. Create a new folder on the desktop. Right click and rename it as God Mode .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and press Enter.

Microsoft Teams for Linux

This how to is written for debian distro based operating systems. During this test i’m using Ubuntu Desktop 18.04.3 LTS.

Installing Microsoft Teams

First of all download the right client package for Microsoft Teams.

For my Ubuntu desktop i’m using the DEB 64-bit installer. You can also download the package using wget.

Download the package from the Teams website. You can find the latest version right here (Right click the version and copy the link)

Disable .NET Framework 4.8 from Windows Update

About the .NET Framework 4.8

The .NET Framework 4.8 is an in-place upgrade to versions 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 and 4.7 of the .NET Framework. In case of Exchange / Skype for Business Server 2015 if you don’t have the corresponsing CU patch or product level we will need to block the automatic installation through Windows Update of the .NET Framework 4.8 patch.

These steps describes how to perform this blocking action.

Using eDiscovery with Microsoft Teams

Recently i was involved in a case where we needed to discover some conversations between a internal and external company due to some illegal activities.

I want to share some information on eDiscovery and Content Search with Microsoft Teams from a Security and Compliance view, this is quite simple but many of us are unaware how could you filter out the conversations and in specific to Microsoft Teams conversations.

Assign Permissions

If you have already set the permissions you can skip this first chapter.

Optimize your network for Microsoft Teams

Before you start planning your network for Microsoft Teams network connectivity, it is important to understand the connectivity principles for managing Microsoft Teams traffic and getting the best possible performance for your end users.

Traditional enterprise networks are mostly designed to provide users access to applications and data hosted in company or co-located datacenters with focus on strong perimeter security and easy to manage for the IT departments. The traditional model assumes that users will access applications and data from inside the corporate network perimeter, over WAN links from branch offices, or remotely over VPN connections and will use one break out to the public internet managed by a corporate firewall.

Setup Direct Routing with Microsoft teams

Direct Routing lets you connect a supported, customer-provided Session Border Controller (SBC) to the Microsoft Phone System. With this capability you can configure on-premises PSTN (bring your own sip trunk, BYOT) connectivity with your Microsoft Teams client.

There are a couple of certified SBC vendors you can use to setup Direct Routing.

• Audiocodes
• Ribbon
• AnyNode
• Thinktel

What do you need?

In order to setup Direct routing you will need to have some prerequisites:

No RingBack when using Microsoft Teams Direct Routing

Recently we have decomissioned our Microsoft Cloud Connector Edition and migrated most of our telephony users to Microsoft Teams with Direct Routing. One big issue we faced was that when a external caller called us by PSTN, they only heard one RingBack tone followed by deadly silence till someone picked up or landed in Azure VoiceMail.

Thanks to my friend Goos Stuut, working at our local distri for Audiocodes we found out what was happening and we solved this issue.