Microsoft Teams

  Microsoft announced the support for 3PIP Phones and Third-party SIP Phones in the month of August last year. In the recently concluded Microsoft Ignite event Microsoft announced the model that will be supported on the Microsoft Teams Calling and Microsoft Teams Direct Routing. Below are the different modes from the different OEM that would be supported with the SIP Gateway capabilities. Polycom Cisco Yealink AudioCodes Polycom SIP Phones Cisco IP Phones with MPP Firmware     VVX100 6821 T20 series AudioCodes 400 HD series VVX200 6901 T30 series   VVX300 7800 series T40 series   VVX400 8800 series T60 series   VVX500       VVX600 etc. ...

  Microsoft has made an announcement expanding the Coverage of the Microsoft Calling Plan in additional new countries with the roll out happening between 1 st April; 2021 and 30 th June 2021. This was announced during the recently concluded Microsoft Ignite 2021. The list of additional new countries are as follows: - ·           New Zealand ·           Singapore ·           Romania ·           Czech Republic ·           Hungary ·           Finland ·           Norway and ·           Slovakia The above list of countries is in addition to the existing country coverage for Microsoft Calling Plans. Generally...

Microsoft will be soon rolling out a new service plan, Compliance Recordings, which will be available as part of your Microsoft 365 E3, E5, A3, and A5; Office 365 E3, E5, and A5; or Business Premium license. Key points & Roll Out Timing Timing: early March 2021   Roll-out: Tenant Level Control type: Admin Control Action: Review and Assess  How this will affect Microsoft Team Organizations Microsoft is changing which license holders can benefit from compliance recording capabilities for Microsoft Teams. The user conducting the recording must be using a Teams client (desktop, mobile, or web); however other individuals can connect to the call via any device. What Organization need to do to Prepare Microsoft recommend that you familiarize yourself with the details of this capability and determine the appropriate policy settings for your organization. Then create and assign compliance recording policies that determine which users are to be recorde...

In an interesting  feature roll out Microsoft Teams will soon allow the Teams Meeting organizer for having customize registration capability in Microsoft Teams Meeting and Webinar.  Microsoft Teams meeting organizers will soon be able to create a custom registration page for any meeting, although the feature is designed for webinars. The feature is available for meeting organizers using Teams desktop applications (Win/Mac) and Teams on the web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365  Roadmap ID 66586 . The Feature Roll Out Timing We will roll this out early March and expect it to be complete early April. How this will affect Microsoft Team Users By default, this new meeting registration function will be available to all tenant users. When a meeting organizer uses the custom registration option, those who are invited receive an email with the registration link. Recurring and channel meetings do not currently support registration functionality. By def...

  Earlier Microsoft Teams Meeting Attendance reports where only available with the Meeting Organizer before the End of Meeting. Offline download of the Teams Meeting report was not available. Enhancing the reporting feature Microsoft is now rolling out the capability to download the Microsoft Teams Meeting Attendance Report after the meeting. In June (MC209710) Microsoft provided Teams meeting organizers with a participant report that includes join and leave times. Microsoft is now making key changes to improve functionality and provide additional participant data in the report. This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66459. The Feature Roll Out Timing Microsoft will begin rolling this out mid-February (previously early February) and expect the rollout to be complete at the end of February (previously mid-February). How this will affect Microsoft Team Users There are two areas of improvement: 1. Download point changed from roster view The Teams meeting...

  Microsoft has been working on the enhancing the Features Capabilities of Microsoft Teams since inception to match the capabilities available in a Cloud Hosted PBX (Phone System). Addition of Transcription for 1:1 Calls & 1:1 PSTN Call Recording in Microsoft Teams would provide additional enhancement in the on-going effort from Microsoft. Both the Feature Functionality is widely requested, and it would encourage additional adoption of the Microsoft Phone System (Cloud PBX).   Microsoft Teams: Transcription for 1:1 Calls https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=68774   Microsoft Teams: 1:1 PSTN Call Recording https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=68777