Erwin Bierens

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Microsoft Teams - Live Events

2019-03-26 2 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens
Live Events With Microsoft Teams live events, users in your organization can broadcast video and meeting content to large online audiences. Teams delivers chat-based collaboration, calling, meetings, and with live events, so you can expand the audience of your meetings. Teams live events is an extension of Teams meetings, enabling users to broadcast video and meeting content to a large online audience. These are meant for one-to-many communications where the host of the event is leading the interactions and audience participation is primarily to view the content shared by host. Continue reading

Remove unknown VM image from ESXi

2019-02-12 1 min read VMWare Erwin Bierens
I’m running a standalone ESXi 6.7.x, during the import of a VM via the web client I cancelled the operation, I now have this entry in the web client that point to a vmx file that doesn’t exists anymore. Problem In the list of virtual machines in the web client I have, as virtual machine name, the path of the vm that doen’t exists and in Status field you will see the “Unknown” value. Continue reading

Audiocodes MediaPack Loses Static IP Address

2019-01-29 1 min read Audiocodes Erwin Bierens
By default the Audiocodes MediaPacks, sent out a BootP request during a cold start of the device. If you have a enterprise DHCP server active in the network this will probaly respond (undesired) to this request and will give you a DHCP release from the DHCP pool. This way the MediaPack will receive a new IP address from the DHCP pool everytime it will have a cold start. The setting ‘BootPSelectiveEnable = 1’ enables the device’s integral BootP client to filter unsolicited BootP/DHCP replies and accepts only BootP replies that contain the text ‘AUDC’ in the vendor specific information field of the request. Continue reading

Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams Network Testing

If you want to easy test your network connection to Skype for Business Online and Microsoft Teams server from a GUI perspective?This is possible with a tool created by Korneel Bullens and is located in the Network Planner inside FastTrack. The setup is really easy and the outcome is very clear. / Network Testing Companion Installation and Usage Guide Prerequisites Windows 7 or later Windows Management Framework 5.1 You must have a local Administrator account to install. Continue reading

Shared Line Appearance in Microsoft Teams

2019-01-04 2 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens
What is Shared Line Appearance Shared Line Appearance handles multiple calls on a specific number called a shared number. Shared Line Appearance can configure any enterprise voice enabled user as a shared number with multiple lines to respond to multiple calls. The calls are not actually received on the shared number, instead they are forwarded to users that act as delegates for the shared number. Any one of the delegates can pick up the call while the rest of the delegates get a notification on their phone about who picked up the call and which line has become busy as a result. Continue reading

New phone what about Multi Factor Authentication(MFA) in Azure?

2019-01-02 2 min read Azure Office365 Erwin Bierens
Do you know the feeling of loosing your data when buying a new phone? Just before the holidays i decided to buy a new phone. Traditionally i’m a Apple fanboy for year, started with the iPhone My last device was a iPhone 7 with the Apple Watch series After some research in what i actually wanted/needed the OnePlus 6T was the best option for me (cost/performance). Because i’m using the Microsoft Authenticator for quite some time and have most of my MFA accounts in there it was time to change all of the accounts. Continue reading
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