Erwin Bierens

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Leaving guest tenant - Microsoft Teams

2018-06-20 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens
You now will have the possibility yo leave a guest tenant (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/leave-the-organization). In this how to i will show you how to do this. Go to the MyApps portal and login with your Office365 Account Go to your profile (right corner) and click the settings icon. Below Organizations you will see the tenants listed where you have access to Click the organization you want to leave. You will now automatically login to the tenant. Continue reading

Update VMWare ESXi from Shell

2018-04-10 1 min read VMWare Erwin Bierens
Do you know the feeling of creating USB drives to update/upgrade your VM hosts? Stop!, You can do this now from the CLI! I will explain you how to do this. / Login and Upgrade First login to your VMWare web interface Stop all running VMs, after all VMs are succesfully stopped Enter Maintenance Mode. Next, we are going to enable Secure Shell access. you can use PuTTy to connect to your VMWare shell. Continue reading

The New Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center

To enable a better manageability for admins, Microsoft has started to roll out a new Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center. / This new experience provides you with a unified experience to manage both Teams and Skype for Business and will also incorporate Call Analytics and the Call Quality Dashboard (direct links to the legacy portals). Create a Microsoft Teams messaging policy This is where you can create custom policies to disable deleting or the use of Giphys in conversations Continue reading

Review: Hidester VPN

2018-03-31 2 min read Review Erwin Bierens
Why should you need a VPN? Cybercriminals, Hackers, spies, government, overeager retailers and even internet service providers can watch what you do online but only if we let them. So in this review i tested the VPN service of “Hidester VPN” for a couple of days, I used my iPhone to test and i must say i like the speed of the network and the simplicity of the client. I tried to reach out to some blocked sites, and these are working fine. Continue reading

Common Area Phones - Skype for Business Online

Microsoft has enabled a new service called “Common Area Phone”, this way you can enable IP Phones as a generic device. The “Common Area Phone” License contains: / Phone System Skype for Business Online (Plan 2) Let’s create a user I’m creating a IP Phone for my living room. Make sure you assign the Common Area Phone license. Now the user is created boot up the IP Phone. IP Phone & Provisioning In this example i use a Audiocodes 450HD as IP Phone with firmware version: 3. Continue reading

Quality of Service Config Script for Microsoft Teams

2018-03-30 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens
Quality of Service (QoS) is a mechanism that lets you prioritize certain types of network traffic. Prioritizing the traffic for real-time communications services such as Teams is important in order to deliver a business-grade user experience. For QoS to be truly effective, a QoS-capable connection must be configured end-to-end (PC, network switches, and routers to the cloud), because any part in the path that fails to support QoS could degrade the quality of the entire call. Continue reading
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