How to use Microsoft Teams Templates

2018-12-31 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

Working in project groups means standardize your workflow to work more efficient. Also this has a benefit for your employees to find everything in the same place and structure. Create a Team based on a template. In Microsoft Teams go to “Join or create a team”. / Select “Create team” Click “Create a team using an existing team as a template”. Now select your base template that you want to copy. Continue reading

Call Park in Microsoft Teams

2018-12-31 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

Call Park Call Park provides you the ability to park an active call and then allow yourself or someone else to pick up the call using a (specific) code. You communicate the code out-of-band. Call Park Feature Parking a call: you can park an active call by clicking on the “Park” button in the call control. If no one retrieves the call within 5 minutes, it will ring you back. If you don’t pick-up the call, it will follow your configured unanswered roles (i. Continue reading

Microsoft Teams Licensing Guide

2018-12-17 2 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

Some time ago i wrote an article to explain the licensing in Skype for Business Server and Skype for Business Online [The Skype for Business licensing guide], with the change to Teams i want to give you some insight in this licensing to: / Users in Teams (base license) Every user that want to make use of Teams needs a Teams license. Cloud voice features Audio Conferencing (addon) Sometimes people in your organization will need to use a phone to call in to a Microsoft Teams meeting, instead of using their computer. Continue reading

Branding your Office365 Login Screen

2018-12-12 1 min read Office365 Erwin Bierens

Using your organization’s logo and custom color schemes to provide a consistent look-and-feel on your Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) sign-in pages. Your sign-in pages appear when users type in their sign in to your organization’s web-based apps, such as Office 365, which uses Azure AD as your identity provider. / [caption id=“attachment_1995” align=“alignnone” width=“665”] My Example[/caption] Some people maybe notice where this background is from, for the ones that don’t know this is from Mr Robot. Continue reading

Changing your presence from the Teams Desktop Client

2018-12-11 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

Last week Microsoft released the a small but in my opinion a fundamental feature that i was using many times a day in Skype for Business. It’s now possible to change your presence status from either the system tray menu or buttons below the Aero thumbnail and changing the presence from the menu (via profile picture) also still exists. / Aero thumbnail [caption id=“attachment_1989” align=“alignnone” width=“275”] Aero Thumbnail[/caption] System Tray Menu [caption id=“attachment_1990” align=“alignnone” width=“356”] System Tray[/caption] Continue reading

Route all traffic by OpenVPN

2018-12-11 1 min read Linux Security Erwin Bierens

In October i posted a blog about setting up your OpenVPN server in 2 minutes. This blog is a addon to your existing configuration to route all traffic over the VPN. / Change server configuration go to the config file (/etc/openvpn/server.conf) and add the following lines: push "redirect-gateway def1" push "dhcp-option DNS " push "dhcp-option DNS 1.1.1.1" Restart your OpenVPN daemon sudo /etc/init.d/openvpn restart Change client configuration Change your client config, and add the following line Continue reading

Microsoft Teams administrator roles

2018-12-10 2 min read Microsoft Teams Powershell Erwin Bierens

Microsoft has created four new roles specifically for admins responsible for Microsoft Teams. Roles give people in your organization permission to do specific tasks in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This new admin roles are now available to assign in your Microsoft 365 admin center or by using PowerShell. / Teams service admin Can manage all aspects of Microsoft Teams except license assignment. This includes policies for calling, messaging, and meetings; use of call analytics tools to troubleshoot telephony issues, and management of users and their telephony settings. Continue reading

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