Bypass the Microsoft Teams Lobby

2020-10-27 1 min read Microsoft Teams "Erwin Bierens"

Control your meetings like never before! “Let everyone bypass the lobby” setting is now General Available in your meeting options.

Do cross the lobby

With this setting on, all people in your organizationand guest users will bypass the lobby. The feature is available as a new value in “Who can bypass the lobby?” dropdown in Teams Meeting options. You can set this in your existing Teams meetings as well as in your future Teams meetings.

Jabra Evolve versus the Evolve2 series

2020-10-23 5 min read Microsoft Teams "Erwin Bierens"

April 1 20202, Jabra launched it’s new Evolve2 series office headsets. This is the new standard according to Jabra.

The headsets are designed to improve concentration, collaboration and flexibility in any workplace. But to what extent is Jabra succeeding in this, what does this new standard mean?

In this blog we take a closer look at one of the most famous headsets in the Evolve series: The Jabra Evolve 65 and the new Jabra Evolve2 65.

Direct Routing keeps sending Anonymous

2020-10-05 1 min read Microsoft Teams "Erwin Bierens"

Problem

While i was configuring an Audiocdes SBC with Direct Routing setup and started testing, we faced the issue that every call outgoing is presenting Anonymous as caller ID.

Anonymous

When looking up the SDP invite i saw the parameter Privacy showing up. Privacy ID

Solution

After some digging, i found that the Privacy ID is added automatically when you enable the option -forwardPAI $true (P-Asserted-Identity) within the Set-CsOnlinePSTNGateway cmdlet.

Because i don’t want to remove the PAI, i created the following manipulation rule in the Audiocodes SBC to remove the Privacy ID. Action Subject:

Do not bypass the lobby anymore

2020-08-10 1 min read Microsoft Teams "Erwin Bierens"

Control your meetings like never before! “Only Organizer bypasses lobby” setting is now General Available in your meeting options.

Do NOT cross the lobby

With this setting on, even people in your organization or in the meeting will now go through lobby first. The feature is available as a new value in “Who can bypass the lobby?” dropdown in Teams Meeting options. You can set this in your existing Teams meetings as well as in your future Teams meetings.

New features coming to Microsoft Teams EDU

2020-08-10 2 min read Microsoft Teams "Erwin Bierens"

Microsoft Teams Education is having some big features waiting for release, below you will find a listing with their release dates:

Run engaging classes through online meetings

Classroom

Large Gallery view (aka 7x7) – expected in August
(New) Together Mode – expected in August
(New) Dynamic view – expected in August
(New) See more videos on iOS or Android devices – expected in August
(New) Attendance Report post-meeting download – expected in early September
(New) Whiteboard in Teams features – available now
(New) Digital Whiteboard without student access – available now
(Update) Teams meetings now 300 interactive participants – available now
(New) Teams meetings up to 1,000 interactive participants – coming in the last quarter of 2020
(Update) Virtual Breakout rooms – no later than early Q4 2020

Maintain student safety with control of meetings and classrooms

(New) Hard Audio Mute – expected in early September
(New) Control when students can join meetings – expected in August
(New) Students Wait in Lobby – available now
(New) Custom video background policy – available now
(New) Delete cross posts – available now

Easily Deploy and manage Teams for your school or institution

Team creation

Title Up Your Teams Group Chats

2020-07-01 1 min read Microsoft Teams "Erwin Bierens"

Did you know you can title up your chat to get a clear visual about the topics discussing? There is only one requirement to achieve this: at least three persons in chat.