Review: Plantronics Voyager Focus UC

This headset is a more than a standard headset. The Voyager Focus has some advanced stuff build in. When you take of your headset while playing music, the music pauses. When you are in a Skype for Business meeting and you turn your microphone up or take of your headset it will mute you. This is all work of the Smart Sensors Plantronics has built in. The Active Noise Cancelling of this headset is working as you may expect.

Review: Jabra Evolve 75e MS

This week I had the possibility to test the new Jabra Evolve 75e MS, a wireless earbud design. And I must say I like the design. 

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Some quick info on this headset:

• Stereo-earphone headset;
• Bluetooth connector, no cords to the headset;
• Busy light for your colleagues;
• Microphone only on right side;
• Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) switch;
• List-in function;
• Vibrator for incoming calls;
• Magnetic earbuds.

It will take only 2 hours for fully charge of the headset and you will have up to 14 hours of battery life.

New-OfficeWebAppsFarm : Office Online was unable to find the specified certificate

When configuring a new Office Online Server i run in to the following error while setting up the new farm with command:

    PS C:\Windows\system32> New-OfficeWebAppsFarm -InternalUrl "https://oos.contoso.com" -ExternalUrl "https://oos.contoso.com" -CertificateName "Skypeweb"
    New-OfficeWebAppsFarm : Office Online was unable to find the specified certificate.
    At line:1 char:1
    + New-OfficeWebAppsFarm -InternalUrl "https://oos.contoso.com" -Exter ...
    + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (:) [New-OfficeWebAppsFarm], ArgumentException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CertificateNotFound,Microsoft.Office.Web.Apps.Administration.NewFarmCommand

I imported the certificate chain in the computer personal store, i noticed the intermediate and root certificate where also placed in the personal store.

Anonymous Meeting Join in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft has released the Anonymous Join feature for Teams Meetings.  You can use this feature by the following procedure.

• Create and join a scheduled or adhoc meeting

• Copy the meeting join information, you can do this by opening the meeting after creating.
• Launch either Edge (In-Private) or Chrome (Incognito)   _ // Firefox and Safari are not supported yet_
• Paste the meeting join URL into the address bar
• When prompted, use the web client to join the meeting anonymously

The Command Bar–Microsoft Teams

Microsoft is releasing a new feature for the Teams client, the Command Bar. This feature allows you to quickly navigate the Teams client using shortcut commands that can be entered into the Search/Command Bar.

Some examples you can use:

Search for people, files and messages.

• Change your status using - /busy, /away, /dnd
• Look up a recent file and open the file using /files
• Look up someone’s org using **/org **
• Navigate to a channel using /goto
• Call a person using **/call **
• Try out other /commands

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Have your Microsoft Teams meeting call you back

If you’ve got a Skype for Business Audio Conferencing license, you’re now able to dial out to your own phone number from a current meeting. This allows you to transfer meeting audio to your phone if you’re having network problems, need to get in the car or on a slow connection.

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Click the “i” icon on top of the right screen.

Here you can type in your own phone number.

Mute someone in a Microsoft Teams Meeting

Microsoft has released (Januari 17) some new features to the Microsoft Teams client.

Mute someone in a meeting

Mute individual meeting participants straight from the meeting roster to cut down on background noise. If someone has been muted, they’ll get a notification letting them know. They’ll be able to unmute themselves if they need to chime in.

Mute everyone in a meeting

If you ever need to mute all the other participants in a meeting, head to your meeting roster and select Mute all. Each individual will get a notification and be able to unmute themselves if they need to.