Upgrading the Audiocodes One Voice Operations Center (OVOC)

AudioCodes One Voice Operations Center (OVOC, also known as Element Management System and IP Phone Manager) is a web-based voice network management solution that combines management of voice network devices (Audiocodes IP Phones, Mediapacks, Mediants etc..) and quality of experience monitoring into a single, intuitive web-based application.

OVOC enables administrators to manage and to adopt a holistic approach to network lifecycle management by simplifying everyday tasks and assisting in troubleshooting all the way from detection to correction.

Bypass the Microsoft Teams Lobby

Control your meetings like never before! “Let everyone bypass the lobby” setting is now General Available in your meeting options.

With this setting on, all people in your organizationand guest users will bypass the lobby. The feature is available as a new value in “Who can bypass the lobby?” dropdown in Teams Meeting options. You can set this in your existing Teams meetings as well as in your future Teams meetings.

Jabra Evolve versus the Evolve2 series

April 1 20202, Jabra launched it’s new Evolve2 series office headsets. This is the new standard according to Jabra.

The headsets are designed to improve concentration, collaboration and flexibility in any workplace. But to what extent is Jabra succeeding in this, what does this new standard mean?

In this blog we take a closer look at one of the most famous headsets in the Evolve series: The Jabra Evolve 65 and the new Jabra Evolve2 65.

Error while moving user from SfB 2015 to SfB 2019 pool

Problem

When you attempt to move a user from a Skype for Business Server 2015 to 2019 pool but notice that it fails with the following error:

Failed while updating destination pool.

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-CsUser e.bierens@skypedev.nl |Move-CsUser -Target fe2019.skypedev.nl -verbose
VERBOSE: CN=ebi,OU=Accounts,DC=skypedev,DC=nl

Confirm
Move-CsUser
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): y
VERBOSE: Validating parameters for move operation.
VERBOSE: Calculating new server information for user [fe2019.skypedev.nl].
VERBOSE: Moving user [sip:e.bierens@skypedev.nl] across pools.
Move-CsUser : Failed while updating destination pool.
At line:1 char:32
+ ... skypedev.nl |Move-CsUser -Target fe2019.skypedev.nl -verbose ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (CN=ebi,DC=skypedev,DC=nl:OCSADUser) [Move-CsUser], MoveUserE
   xception
	+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MoveError,Microsoft.Rtc.Management.AD.Cmdlets.MoveOcsUserCmdlet

Results from this operation can be found at "C:\Users\administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\MoveResults-99b5be4e-c844-4493-9a4b-6bebe01fe402.csv".

Solve issue

This has been a common issue in environments where a user’s user(security) object has Inheritance disabled on their Active Directory Account.

Direct Routing keeps sending Anonymous

Problem

While i was configuring an Audiocdes SBC with Direct Routing setup and started testing, we faced the issue that every call outgoing is presenting Anonymous as caller ID.

When looking up the SDP invite i saw the parameter Privacy showing up.

Solution

After some digging, i found that the Privacy ID is added automatically when you enable the option -forwardPAI $true (P-Asserted-Identity) within the Set-CsOnlinePSTNGateway cmdlet.

Because i don’t want to remove the PAI, i created the following manipulation rule in the Audiocodes SBC to remove the Privacy ID. Action Subject:

Do not bypass the lobby anymore

Control your meetings like never before! “Only Organizer bypasses lobby” setting is now General Available in your meeting options.

With this setting on, even people in your organization or in the meeting will now go through lobby first. The feature is available as a new value in “Who can bypass the lobby?” dropdown in Teams Meeting options. You can set this in your existing Teams meetings as well as in your future Teams meetings.

New features coming to Microsoft Teams EDU

Microsoft Teams Education is having some big features waiting for release, below you will find a listing with their release dates:

Run engaging classes through online meetings

• Large Gallery view (aka 7x7) – expected in August
• (New) Together Mode – expected in August
• (New) Dynamic view – expected in August
• (New) See more videos on iOS or Android devices – expected in August
• (New) Attendance Report post-meeting download – expected in early September
• (New) Whiteboard in Teams features – available now
• (New) Digital Whiteboard without student access – available now
• (Update) Teams meetings now 300 interactive participants – available now
• (New) Teams meetings up to 1,000 interactive participants – coming in the last quarter of 2020
• (Update) Virtual Breakout rooms – no later than early Q4 2020

Maintain student safety with control of meetings and classrooms

• (New) Hard Audio Mute – expected in early September
• (New) Control when students can join meetings – expected in August
• (New) Students Wait in Lobby – available now
• (New) Custom video background policy – available now
• (New) Delete cross posts – available now

Easily Deploy and manage Teams for your school or institution