Sending a Quick Message from the Command Bar - Microsoft Teams

With this cool new feature, you can @mention either a person or group chat, and send a quick message without having to switch main context in your Teams client.

Just enter @person

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Update VMWare ESXi from Shell

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.

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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.

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.

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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

Review: Hidester VPN

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.

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:

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• 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.

Quality of Service Config Script for Microsoft Teams

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.

Move your email conversation to Microsoft Teams

Do you recognize the situation that you have a Team in Microsoft Teams and members of the team keep sending you emails instead of using the chat and collaboration functions in Teams?

You can now move your email conversation including the attachments to your Teams channel and continue the conversation in your Teams channel.

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Let’s move your conversation to Teams channel

In the Teams client while selecting the channel where you want to port your conversation to you can click on the … now select “Get email address”