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Microsoft Teams launches the Personal Use App

Microsoft Teams is a well-known collaboration application. It acts as a hub for teamwork that allows features of chat, meet, call and collaboration all in one application. Teams is a great tool for the commercial environment. With the outback of Covid19 MS Teams became high demand tool to stay connected with work colleagues and teams. At work, more and more people love Microsoft Teams. In generally out of the work environment, people are using multiple apps to mage day to day work. They use separate apps for managing calendar, email, messaging, photo add, to-do list and documents. Microsoft believed it's better to have a single app to manage all tasks the same as the business environment. By fulfilling the requirements Microsoft introduces Microsoft Teams personal app version in mobile preview. This would be great to initiate, beyond the work scenario to personal life.   the new features are designed to improve the need for tools which is never seen before and instead of

Planning Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business online in a Hybrid Environment - Part 1

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I will discuss the panning phase on this post. I will put together another post to discuss preparation tasks for the hybrid setup. Traffic Flow The below shows the traffic flow during the Hybrid co-existence phase. Enterprise voice for users migrated to Office 365 will continue to be provided on-premise. All other IM, conferencing or collaboration-related services will be provided by the Skype for Business Online or Microsoft Teams services. All incoming SIP traffic for both hybrid and on-premise users will traverse over the Lync or Skype for Business on-prem services. SIP DNS records will continue to point to the on-premise services until the migration of all users, enterprise voice and number ranges have been migrated to SfB Online or Teams, Microsoft Phone System and Cloud calling plans respectively. Migrate existing telephony number ranges to the cloud calling service has to be co-ordination consistencies between the timeframes for hybrid migration and number, migrat

How do you backup Microsoft Teams?

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First question; do we need to backup Microsoft Teams. MS team is cloud base application. Microsoft Teams is part of office 365 suite. Microsoft Teams has taken off as the central hub for collaboration in Office 365 suite. Teams has the ability to connect all other applications and facilitate teams to collaborate the work easily. Can be the main quarry, what exactly can be backed up in MS Teams. There is no simple answer to it. Backing up Microsoft teams can be very complicated. However, there are ways of guaranteeing your content is protected within Microsoft Teams. When we are talking about content, the main contents are chats and files. Even though mentioned here chat and files are important, MS Teams is a hub for many services such as Office 365 groups, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Planner, OneNote. Microsoft Teams Chats Teams Chats can be One to One(1:1) or One to Many(1:M). also, there are Channel Chats available too.  All sort of chats is stored wit

Skype for Business / Teams Network Assessment Tool

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The Skype for Business network assessment Tool brings the ability to perform a simple test of network performance and network connectivity to determine how good the network will perform for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business online calls. This tool gives you an easy to test your network quality and your connection to Skype for Business Online and Microsoft Teams. You can easily collect the result and share them with the network administrator to examine insight into potential network issues. This tool is very useful in the planning phase of Skype for Business or Microsoft Teams deployment. If you are using Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business online already, the tool can be used to troubleshoot voice quality or simply to check your network connection before you make a call or after you’ve experienced a poor-quality. Skype for Business Online has specific network necessities in order to provide end-users with the best experience. You can use this simple tool to assess the

Long waiting Expands on MS Teams video Calls..

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Microsoft Teams has announced that it will introduce another expansion of its gallery view for video calls. This was a long waiting feature, and everyone was  querying  about it. Here it’s go…. Microsoft will expand its gallery view up to 49. Initially, Microsoft Teams supported only four windows of the gallery. Then it expanded up to nine by using 3 x 3 in a window in May this year. New feature included in the road map of MS Teams program. Dates are not confirmed yet. But we expecting feature will roll out very soon in order compete with other video conferencing platforms.  Microsoft under pressure to get this feature out soon. Zoom and Facebook room are facilitating a greater number of simultaneous views of the participants in a single window. Everyone was surprised why it was not been introduced into Microsoft Teams yet. Microsoft Teams is one of the world large video conferencing tools that is used in many businesses as the official platform.   Many users complain, th

Microsoft Teams Tenant Dial Plan

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Requirements for essential Tenant Dial Plan considerations: The default, country-specific set of dialling rules were not enough to meet user requirements. Such as, Speed dial Internal Extension Dial Retaining user dial patterns when users are migrated from on-premises deployments to online. What is Tenant Dial Plan? Dial plans for Skype for Business Online or Teams tenants. Enable users to dial numbers the way they used to (no need to dial regional or area codes). Each dial plan uses a set of normalization rules, similar to what we used for on-premises deployments. Applies to all Microsoft Phone System deployment options (Microsoft Calling for Office 365, hybrid via CCE and via pool) as well as dial out for Cloud PSTN Conferencing. No change in routing/usages. Only 25 normalization rules per dial plan is a limitation. Dial Plan Types Service dial plans are the default and applied to users based on location, and they can’t be changed Te

Facebook follows Zoom. FB rolls out new tool for Video calls

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Messenger Rooms will enable you to join group video calls for users who don’t have a Facebook account. Zoom become a major platform for video conferences in this pandemic situation. Now Facebook introducing a new feature that allows you to initiate a video chat with multiple people through Messenger even If you don’t have a Facebook account. This feature makes Facebook enable a competitive move with top rank video conferencing app Zoom. Video calling becomes a highly required feature with this pandemic. Many of us are staying at home and working from home. Video conference is a major requirement to join the work-related meeting. And also, many of catching up families and friends over the video stream. Sometimes we do catch up with a few numbers of friends to keep touch each other at this outbreak. I know we do a virtual drinking session too. Video conferencing platforms help us to keep the bridge between friends and families. New Tools calls as Messenger Rooms and it enab