Microsoft Teams - Unassigned Numbers

Back in the days of Skype for Business Onpremises this was a default feature that was being used for announcements of old number ranges and severeral other cases like people leaving the company and reroute phone calls to reception.

For this new feature in Microsoft Teams you will need to have the PowerShell Microsoft Teams module version 2.5.1 or higher.

In this article about the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module you can check your version and method to upgrade.

FAQ Microsoft Teams with Direct Routing

Last update: 2021-06-30

Direct Routing with Microsoft Teams is becoming more populair than ever. Since COVID-19 i’ve implemented many customers with Direct Routing.

I am going to update this FAQ as much as possible. If you have any questions, please let me know below in the comments.

What do i need in order to setup Direct Routing?

When you intent to setup Direct Routing for your company the following items are needed:

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.js