Teams

Use Microsoft Teams Room Systems for WebEx and Zoom Meetings

It is possible to use your existing Microsoft Teams Room System (MTR) for joining external WebEx or Zoom meetings. The requirement is to make sure your MTR devices are running the Microsoft Teams Room App version 4.5.35.0 or later. The update has been out for a while, since it was released back in July 2020. For the configuration steps, I will not dive into this. Since Graham Walsh has described it in good detail in hos blog …

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How to enable the Teams connector in Azure Sentinel

I know this has been out for a while now. The Microsoft Teams connector for Azure Sentinel was released back at the end of August 2020. But I still see some organizations, that are using Azure Sentinel but have yet to enable the Teams connector. There could be a lot of reasons, since the connector is still in preview. Nevertheless, the connector works fine and I find, that one of the reasons, is that a …

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Use OneDrive for Business and SharePoint for Teams Meeting Recordings

Announced at Microsoft Ignite 2020, Microsoft is now changing the way Teams Meeting Recordings are stored. As you might already be familiar with, all recordings of Teams meetings have been stored in Microsoft Stream, which is the Office 365 Enterprise Video service, that can be used to share videos thoughout your organization. Some limits of Stream is that videos are not able to be shared with external, so any external meeting participants are not able …

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Microsoft Teams Calling Plans is now available in 6 additional countries

Microsoft has just made Teams Calling Plans available in 6 additional countries, as of today (Oct. 1st, 2020). The new countries to the list are: Austria Denmark Italy Portugal Sweden Switzerland Calling Plans have been available in other countries for some time now, such as Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. This means that Calling Plans can now be added to users, which are homed in any …

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How to update the Lenovo ThinkSmart View device

I recently bought the Lenovo ThinkSmart View, which is an All-in-one dedicated Microsoft Teams device. The device is meant to be used by only one person and not to be compared to a meeting room device, which we see used in meeting rooms. I use this device as an additional productivity device, that sits permanently under my monitors and it makes it very easy for me to attend meetings and take calls. The device was …

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