Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 59 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). Following on from the recent Enterprise Connect show in Orlando there was a ton of Teams news announced. Live on Stage during the keynote and on tthe Microsoft stand. The result was something like 8 or 9 Microsoft blog posts. Including one on everything, another just on Teams rooms and devices. And several expanding on specific features. The list I drew up from all of that was so big (and because part 1 took an hour t ..read more

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 58 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). Following on from the recent Enterprise Connect show in Orlando there was a ton of Teams news announced. Live on Stage during the keynote and on tthe Microsoft stand. The result was something like 8 or 9 Microsoft blog posts. Including one on everything, another just on Teams rooms and devices. And several expanding on specific features. The list I drew up from all of that was so big (and because part 1 took an hour t ..read more

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 57 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about the list of revelations from a live fireside chat with Ilya Bukshteyn and Caroline Stanford, Jimmy Vaughan and Michel Bouman filmed at ISE. Then segway into about a bunch of Microsoft Teams Rooms news and roadmap entries that appeared following ISE 2024. Here’s the list Fireside chat Live from ISE 2024 | Fireside Chat with Ilya Bukshteyn and Caroline Stanford (youtube.com) Windows autopilot su ..read more

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 56 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we finally do our Ignite special. A bit late but we had to move the recording 4 times to get here. Better late than never. And we think some of the news after Ignite added colour to what was announced. You’ll see (hear) when you listen. Here’s the list Ignite news Copilot. That’s 99% of what was announced at Ignite related to Teams We talk about Copilot for 20 minutes The rest… AI in Teams Voice isolat ..read more

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 54 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat with Mark about his day job at Callroute. Callroute is a small company in the south of England who started with a platform to deliver telephony to Teams through Direct Routing as a service, but with a unique widard based sign up and provisioning process. The simple process starts with giving an app some permissions to read and write to your tenant. Which means you can be making and receiving calls in ..read more

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 53 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about some of the most recent news for Teams Rooms and Teams Phone. I pulled some stuff from the Message Centre, What’s new in Teams Blogs and the Roadmap. Then we had a big whinge about the tooling and management for MTR. Here’s the short list of topics Front Row AI with spacial audio and unified background for teh ga;llery Join 3rd party meetings from Teams desktop client – basically Direct Guest ..read more

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 52 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about Teams Telephony, Teams Phone, Teams Calling and Voice stuff. Yes I know they are all the same but I wanted to try to make it sound exciting. I pulled some stuff from the Message Centre, What’s new in Teams Blogs and the Roadmap Message Centre and What’s new in Teams Dynamic emergency calling on Teams Web. Including adding an emergency location Make calls through speed dial and call history on ..read more

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 51 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about a long list of news and new stuff from the Microsoft 365 Message Centre. If you didn’t know, that’s a great source of news. The Roadmap serves it up, sometimes a year in advance and with a rough idea of when its gonna land. The Message Centre is when its imminent, although sometimes several months out, or more. You also need to check frequently because the posts get updated with new timelines as they slip a month or 3 ..read more

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 49 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about the Teams Premium licensing and the features inside. The list of features in Premium are broken down into 5 separate categories. And therein, 5 types of users or user needs. Premium features to make meetings more Secure End-to-end Encryption option for meetings (E2EE) Watermark Who can record Sensitivity labels for meetings with prevent copy option prereq: E5 license Premium features to make ..read more

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 48 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we talk about a couple of changes for Teams Phone and some really big changes for Teams Rooms. The list: Microsoft Teams Phone Stuff Microsoft Announced, in the Message Centre, changes to phone number routing logic for Line URIs. Teams now needs an exact match in order to route a call to a user. So if you have an estate with Line URIs that include an extension (e.g. tel:+442072346789;ext=6789), you either n ..read more