Call Park in Microsoft Teams

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.e. voicemail if configured).

Microsoft Teams Licensing Guide

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:

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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. Use the Audio Conferencing feature for this situation.

Branding your Office365 Login Screen

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.

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[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.

Changing your presence from the Teams Desktop Client

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.

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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]

Route all traffic by OpenVPN

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. 

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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

Microsoft Teams administrator roles

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.

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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.

Running PowerShell on your RaspberryPi

For many years PowerShell was a Windows-only thing that was part of the closed Windows ecosystem. Now a days PowerShell is open source up at https://github.com/PowerShell with lots of docs and scripts, also open source.

PowerShell is supported on Windows, Mac, and a half-dozen Linux distros.

While running PowerShell on your RaspberryPi is still experimental and only supported for Raspbian Stretch it’s running pretty smoothly.

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Installing

Install the prerequisites

	sudo apt-get install libunwind8

Grabbing the latest tar.gz