One of the best features of Microsoft Teams is the ability to extend the built-in functionality with custom apps and bots. In addition to the apps available within Teams, there are a huge number of community generated app templates available to enhance and customize the Teams experience for users. One such app is the Teams …
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Dealing with Teams Guest Users During Tenant to Tenant Migrations
During Microsoft 365 tenant to tenant migrations, the question of Guest Accounts often comes up. How they are dealt with is critical as they are not internal users who can rely on our helpdesk for support. Because of this, a lot of organizations will choose to ignore Guest accounts and inform end users to re-invite …
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Migrate Microsoft Team and Private Channel Members with Graph API and PowerShell
As Microsoft Teams grows into one of the most successful tools in the Microsoft 365 suite, more organizations are seeing Teams as business critical. Entire processes are built around Teams and it has become more important to be able to manage Teams at scale. Generally when managing Teams membership, we can use the Exchange Online …
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Replace Teams Outbound Caller ID with Resource Account Number
One of the standard PhoneSystem features that Microsoft Teams supports is Caller ID Policies. Masking users direct dials for outbound calls is a pretty common requirement in any organization. Interestingly, when we navigate to the Caller ID Policy, we don't have a simple option to select a Resource Account number. The use case here, and …
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Configure Microsoft Teams Common Area Phones
As more organizations move even deeper into Microsoft Teams by adopting Teams Phone System as a replacement for their traditional PBX systems, there are use cases that need to be accounted for outside of users making and receiving calls within Teams. I’ve detailed the setup of Auto Attendants in a previous post and we can …
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Right to Disconnect: How to Block Teams Messages After Business Hours
I recently wrote an article about how we can add a disclaimer to email messages outside of business hours to promote a healthy work / life balance. I then received a question asking if we can achieve something similar for Teams messages. While we can't add a disclaimer, we can leverage Microsoft Cloud App Security …
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Configure Teams Direct Routing, Simple Deployment via PowerShell
A massive amount of organizations are delving into Teams even deeper and assessing the calling functionality as a replacement for their existing phone system. Of the different ways of implementing Teams calling, Direct Routing seems to be the standard for large organizations. The flexibility afforded through Direct Routing is exactly what is needed in a …
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How to Enable Microsoft Teams Public Preview in your Organization
The Microsoft Teams feature updates are still coming thick and fast with a host of new features appearing for Teams users every month. even just looking at the roadmap page, there are 219 features in development at the time of writing and 26 currently rolling out. With the pace of updates, it's important to keep …
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Securing External Access to Files in Teams: The Two Most Important Basic Configurations
Within Microsoft 365, it's almost impossible to avoid deploying Microsoft Teams. The value provided by Teams from a collaboration perspective is very hard to pass up. This is all great but since Teams allows such easy to use collaboration features, there are also risks that data leakage can occur either by mistake or intentionally. There …
Deploying Microsoft Viva Connections for Desktop
Today (31/03/21), Microsoft have made public the steps and script to generate the Microsoft Viva Connections for Desktop. In this post we will go through how to package and deploy the app for Microsoft Teams. What is Microsoft Viva? Microsoft Viva is "an employee experience platform" which is essentially a collection of solutions which all …
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