Category: Microsoft Teams

  • Changes to Teams Direct Routing in 2022

    Towards the end of 2021, Microsoft made a number of announcements via Message Center that will impact calls that route to and from Microsoft Teams via Direct Routing. If you’re using Direct Routing, it’s important to review these items and ensure you won’t be affected in the coming months. Let’s take a closer look at…

  • Teams Direct Routing Improvements for Australian Tenants

    If your organisation is using Microsoft Teams and your Microsoft 365 tenant is hosted within the Australia region, there are two ways that PSTN calling can be introduced to your Microsoft Teams environment: Use Telstra Calling (calling plans) Use Direct Routing Given its deployment flexibility and ability to support a wide range of deployment scenarios,…

  • Running a Hackathon on Microsoft Teams

    For the last 4 years, I’ve been involved with supporting UHack: The University of Tasmania’s annual weekend-long event that sees teams of participants come together to create something innovative. The event runs from Friday evening though to Sunday afternoon, with mentors from various backgrounds providing guidance along the way, culminating in a panel of judges…

  • Zoom, Teams, and the Elephant in the (Meeting) Room

    Let’s not beat about the bush: We’re living through some very unusual times. As I write to you, from a government-imposed State of Emergency to deal with the fallout from COVID-19, I can’t help but be thankful for the technologies in place that have allowed me to keep working, to stay in touch with colleagues…

  • Video Interop with Microsoft Teams

    If you’re using Microsoft Teams, you’re no doubt aware that it provides a powerful platform for online meetings. Built on cloud first, “hyper-scale” technologies that actually originated from the Skype consumer world (as opposed to Skype for Business\Lync), you will have no doubt have noticed that the media stack within Teams provides an improved meeting…

  • Meetings First with Microsoft Teams

    Unless you’ve been hiding away from the world for the last couple of years, chances are you’ve heard about all the goodness that is Microsoft Teams. You may also be aware that, on a long enough time frame, Skype for Business Online will eventually be deprecated, with Microsoft Teams becoming the single client available in Office 365…