Microsoft Teams

Microsoft announce the following updates to improve the Teams meeting and chat experience: 1.      Easily access meeting options from within a Teams meeting in progress,  Roadmap ID 63334 o     Rolling out at the end of April 2.      Download a participant report in a Teams meeting,  Roadmap ID 63351 o     Rolling out early May 3.      Audio playing on presenter device will be shared in the live event,  Roadmap ID 63276 o     Rolling out at the end of April 4.      Screen Share from Chat,  Roadmap ID 63193 o     Rolling out early May How does this affect me? 1.      Easily access meeting options from within a Teams meeting in progress:  We are making it easier for meeting organizers to quickly and easily change their presenter and lobby settings once a Teams meeting starts by providing an easy to access link directly in the participants pane. This new functionality will be present for both scheduled and "Meet Now" meetings.        2.      Dow

Most of the Office 365 Administrators find it difficult to understand the Microsoft Calling Plans how to best utilize it, whom to assign the licenses and how to configure it for the users. Let us understand the different Microsoft Licenses and their offering specifically for Small Business Customers with less than 300 users in their Tenant. Business Voice Calling Plans are available in around 70 countries wherein Microsoft is offering this service across globe. Business Voice Calling Plans are available in almost Three Countries currently namely United States, United Kingdom and Canada. This will be soon rolled out in other countries wherein Microsoft is providing the calling plans. But there are no timelines for the same. Below are the Licenses SKU which are eligible for Microsoft Business Voice Feature Capabilities ·         Office 365 Business Basic (previously called Office 365 Business Essentials) ·         Office 365 Business Standard (previously called Office 365 B

Teams Direct Routing or Teams DR is a functionality released by Microsoft 365 to connect your PBX/SIP Trunk directly with Microsoft Teams Application. There by replacing the need of physical hard phones at your desk and Teams Soft Client becomes your Phone Devices Now let us understand the below diagram in detail. In Microsoft 365 we have the users hosted in the Microsoft Cloud with the respective Licenses assigned to the user accounts. These users have the Microsoft Teams Feature Functionality and they can use the Full Fledge Teams Feature with out PSTN Integration. For doing a PSTN Integration there two methods Microsoft is offering which are as below: - 1.      Microsoft Calling 2.      Teams Direct Routing Microsoft Calling Plans: - I have already discussed the same in my other Two Article what are the permutation and combination this can be used for Microsoft Teams + Calling Plans. Here is the Reference for the same Microsoft Teams Calling Plans - SM