Erwin Bierens

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Lockdown Microsoft Teams Creation

2019-10-03 3 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"

How do you deal inside your organization with the wild creation of all kind of Teams? Having doubles, separate Teams for guest access, Teams without a owner because the original created user already left the company.

Instead of moving further lockdown Teams creation and decide who will need to create Teams (your stakeholders or key users for example). Train the specific group how to create Teams and how to make use of templates.

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Click to Call is not working for my Teams client

2019-10-02 2 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"

When you install Microsoft Teams and start to use it for as your default calling app you want Teams to open when you click on TEL: URLs on homepages.

A TEL: URL is in the E.164 format tel: ie. tel:+31205001500(not my number, its the dutch Microsoft number) and when you click on that Teams should open and you will be able to call that number without copying the number or type it manual in your Teams.

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Jabra PanaCast

2019-06-17 4 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"

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.

Jabra Panacast V3

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. The multi-camera array solution offers a full 180-degree panoramic field of view, delivering a naturally immersive experience. It even has real-time movement detection including the ability to count the number of people in a room (up to 12 meters away).

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Priority Notifications in Microsoft Teams

2019-06-12 1 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"

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.

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How to enable?

IT Admins can manage this feature as part of messaging policies in Teams. This feature is on by default for all tenants.

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Get the hell out of Islands Mode

2019-04-18 4 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

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. You can check this by going to the Teams Admin Portal.

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Create Team and Channels with PowerShell

2019-04-12 1 min read Microsoft Teams Powershell Erwin Bierens

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.

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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.com"

    Connect-MicrosoftTeams

    $group = New-Team -DisplayName "$TeamName" -Description "$TeamDescription" -AccessType "$TeamVisability"

    Add-TeamUser -GroupId $group.GroupId -User "$TeamOwner" -Role "owner"

    New-TeamChannel -GroupId $group.GroupId -DisplayName "Sales"
    New-TeamChannel -GroupId $group.GroupId -DisplayName "Marketing"
    New-TeamChannel -GroupId $group.GroupId -DisplayName "Security"
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