Remove the annoying media overlay popup in Microsoft Teams

Do you recognize belows popup when ending or joining a meeting from your Microsoft Teams client when using Windows 10? And for some reason it’s always in a place where you have to click with your mouse at that particular moment. This can be easily solved. So what is showing this popup? Hardware Media Key Handling is one of the built-in features of a chromium based browser. When this feature is enabled in the Chromium based browser, users are able to use the media keys of the keyboard to play, pause, forward, previous, increase or decrease volume, mute music, or video playing in browser. Continue reading

Using the unanswered routing when busy in Microsoft Teams

On April 9 of 2021 Microsoft released an upgrade on the Busy on Busy feature in Microsoft Teams. So what does Busy on Busy do? When Busy on Busy is enabled in your Calling policy every second calls that comes in, would rejected with a Busy signal (603 Declined). Busy on Busy is not enabled by default on the global Calling policy Busy on Busy activates in the following states: Continue reading

Why do headset suppliers deliver USB Dongles?

Even back in the days with Skype for Business i’ve had the same discussions and this has not changed with Microsoft Teams. Why do i need to use the USB Dongle and cannot use the bluetooth in my laptop? In my opinion the main reason for using the USB Dongle is the complete user experience. Almost on a daily bases i see customers strugling with their headsets, using the dongle and paired to the laptops bluetooth stack, buttons not working for mute, picking up calls, low range of headset, etc. Continue reading

How to enable Viva Connections desktop!

In this guide i will show you the steps for enabling Microsoft Viva Connections Desktop! This is one of the four Viva Modules The Viva Connections for desktop experience, combines the power of your intelligent SharePoint intranet with chat and collaboration tools in Microsoft Teams. Viva Connections enables users to discover and search relevant content, sites, and news from across the organization right from the Team’s app bar. Viva Connections also allows you to incorporate your organization’s brand and identity directly in Teams. Continue reading

Cheatsheet - Forever

Forever Cheatsheet A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever). [+] Installation You could install forever using npm like this: sudo npm install -g forever [+] Commands And then start your application with: forever server.js Or as a service: forever start server.js Forever restarts your app when it crashes or stops for some reason. To restrict restarts to 5 you could use: forever -m5 server. Continue reading

Cheatsheet - kismet

Kismet Cheatsheet Kismet is a wireless network and device detector, sniffer, wardriving tool, and WIDS (wireless intrusion detection) framework. Kismet works with Wi-Fi interfaces, Bluetooth interfaces, some SDR (software defined radio) hardware like the RTLSDR, and other specialized capture hardware. [+] Commands Turn Interface down ifconfig wlan0 down Set monitor mode iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor Set interface up ifconfig wlan0 up Start listening for all nearby beacon frames to get target BSSID and airodump-ng wlan0 --band abg Continue reading

Cheatsheet - snmpwalk

SNMPWalk Cheatsheet SNMP protocol provides useful features to monitor and configure network and server systems remotely. Monitoring features are much popular than configuration. snmpwalk is a function provided by SNMP protocol to get metrics of remote system in bulk. [+] Get All OIDS We will first look the simplest usage of the snmpwalk command. We just provide minimum options to the snmpwalk. We will provide following options as minimum -v 2c version information 2 community -c the public or private secret IPADDRESS Continue reading