CRM systems aren’t really my bag, but having spent the last year or so needing to be more familiar with SalesForce than I cared for (not a requirement in my new position!) I can sympathise with having information split across...
What is Busy on Busy in Microsoft Teams? Busy on Busy (sometimes written as busy-on-busy) is the name given to the feature in Microsoft Teams, where second incoming calls can be automatically rejected when a user is already in a...
Microsoft, back in 2016, released the Microsoft Network Assessment Tool for doing a basic check of connection quality to Skype for Business Online / Teams / O365 (see Randy's blog for more info). This tool gives you a Pass/Fail based on four network metrics (Packet Loss, Round Trip Time, Jitter, Packet Reorder) for the 90th percentile average of the time you ran the tool. I decided that while the tool is pretty helpful it could do so much more, so with a bit of PowerShell and a splash of PowerBI I've hopefully transformed its output into something richer and far more useful. Come explore your network with me :)
Here is the concluding part of the OCS to Lync migration video series. You can find Part1, Part2...
At work & home we have quite a few snom 7xx Lync phones deployed. I’m quite a fan of the snom devices & their Lync implementation particularly around things like directory search etc… With the newer snom UC Firmware it...
What is Busy on Busy in Microsoft Teams? Busy on Busy (sometimes written as busy-on-busy) is the name given to the feature in Microsoft Teams, where second incoming calls can be automatically rejected when a user is already in a...
Read MoreIn Microsoft Teams, a reaction is a way for users to respond quickly to a message with an emoji. This allows users to express their emotions or thoughts about a specific message without having to type out a response. Here we look at reactions and how to choose custom ones.
Read MoreCRM systems aren’t really my bag, but having spent the last year or so needing to be more familiar with SalesForce than I cared for (not a requirement in my new position!) I can sympathise with having information split across...
Read MoreMicrosoft has got a bit of a track record with some dodgy naming conventions in the past, and while overall, they seem to have got things pretty right with Teams there has long been a bit of a grey area around what term you...
Read MoreSo I need to come clean about what I’ve been up to during the last year or so… I’ve been quiet on the old socials and on the Teams scene for a little while now. You would be forgiven for thinking this was down to the fairly...
Read MoreNotes taken from the Ignite session – Call quality management for Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams Presented by William Looney and Troy Funk Key takeaways Microsoft provide “top down” and “bottom up” tooling for checking...
Read MoreNotes taken from the Ignite session – Plan your UC refresh correctly: Skype for Business on-premises vNext by Daniel Strader. Session summary So the key points here are: SfB on-prem will have another release This release...
Read More<Work in progress post – Sonus interview to come> I’ve been playing with a 360 degree camera, hit the full screen button for the full effect… [vrview...
Read MoreSo today the cat is out of the bag with regards to the future of Skype for Business and Teams (sort of).Check out this blog from Lori Wright (general manager for Microsoft Teams and Skype product marketing) – A new vision...
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Microsoft, back in 2016, released the Microsoft Network Assessment Tool for doing a basic check of connection quality to Skype for Business Online / Teams / O365 (see Randy’s blog for more info). This tool gives you a Pass/Fail based on four network metrics (Packet Loss, Round Trip Time, Jitter, Packet Reorder) for the 90th percentile average of the time you ran the tool.
I decided that while the tool is pretty helpful it could do so much more, so with a bit of PowerShell and a splash of PowerBI I’ve hopefully transformed its output into something richer and far more useful.
Come explore your network with me 🙂
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