Microsoft Teams

  With the increase in the demand for the Microsoft Teams Offline Mode. Microsoft is releasing the feature for Microsoft Teams Offline Mode Globally for all the customers. For additional information on feature release refer to the User Voice Teams Offline Mode Microsoft Teams have always been an application which required good amount of network connections. Teams requires high-quality internet connectivity for all the features including Teams Online Meeting or Peer to Peer Audio/Video Calls. In addition, whenever there is a Global Outage either on the Microsoft 365 Server Side or on the user end on the WAN side following list of Features would be supported on Microsoft Teams   Sr. No Feature Availability 1 Personal and Group Chat Existing Messages & the recent chats would be available. New Chats and New Messages will be sent only in the Online Mode 2 Channel messages Existing M

  Most of the Organization have now started adopting Microsoft Teams Phone System Services directly from the Cloud. With the recent outages the demand for a backup services for the Teams Telephony services have voiced out from the customer. In the recently concluded Microsoft Ignite 2020 Event it was announced that Microsoft is coming with the concept of SBA (Survivable Branch Appliance). Microsoft is already with its vendors namely AudioCodes and Ribbon for the quick initial roll out of the Feature to the Microsoft Teams Telephony Platform. Ribbon will be rolling out SBA support for Teams in SBC 1000 & SBC 2000 9.0.x release, in concert with Microsoft making it generally available for Teams. AudioCodes will also be providing Teams Survivable Branch Appliances.   How this Change will Benefit Your Organization ·         SBA will support the PSTN Call capability even if the WAN Link is down. ·         Will support PSTN Connectivity with Microsoft Teams being in Offline Mode ·  

  Microsoft Teams Meeting Recording has always been stored on the Microsoft Stream Platform. Due to this Microsoft Teams Meeting was restricted to the Teams Internal Users only. In case anyone wanted to share the Teams Recording with the External Participant the recording needed to be downloaded manually and uploaded to the SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business and shared with the external sharing capability. With the below change in the storage of the Microsoft Teams Meeting Recording all the manual efforts will be reduced and people will be able to share the Teams Meeting Recording directly from SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business directly with the external access link. How this Change will Affect Your Organization This change impacts your organization in several ways: New features The move to ODSP immediately unlocks long-awaited features including external and guest sharing, retention policy application ( https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/ap

  In the current CoVid-19 situation Microsoft has now started offering discounts on the Microsoft Meeting and the calling licenses for the existing Enterprise Customers. Microsoft Advanced Communications License 35% Discount on the Microsoft Advanced Communications License which provides mainly the below features: - ·          Compliance Recording Graph API Access ·          Contact Center solution Graph API Access ·          Live event of up to 20K participants New Feature Release coming in November 2020 ·          1,000-person Interactive Teams Meetings ·          Customized Lobby with Branding capability ·          Large Overflow Meetings For the meeting features, the meeting organizer needs to be licensed. Attendees do not need to be licensed. You cannot purchase specific features out of Advanced Communications. You will have to buy the SKU accordingly. Microsoft PSTN Audio Conferencing Discounts For the Enterprise Customers with either of the Enterprise Li

In Skype for Business On-premises the cost saving which the customers where able to gain in terms of Audio-Conferencing Calls being routed via on-net dialing there by saving the additional cost to be paid to the PSTN PRI/SIP carriers. Skype for Business On-premises also had an option to integrate the Third-Party Audio-Conferencing Provider with Skype for Business on-premises Meeting. In Microsoft Teams the Audio-Conferencing Provider is Microsoft. Still with the latest release you cannot integrate the Third-Party Audio-Conferencing Provider with Microsoft Teams Meeting but Microsoft has opened the On-net Dialing Feature with Teams Direct Routing providing additional cost savings to the customers. Now, in Preview, Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing On-Networking allowing organizations to send inbound and outbound PSTN Audio Conferencing Calls to Microsoft Dial-In Numbers through Teams Direct Routing. Meaning that when the user dials the PSTN Audio Conferencing number traverses through t