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Microsoft introduce background image in MS Teams

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How to set a background image in Microsoft Teams. Finally, Microsoft introduced to set up a background image in MS Teams at video Meetings. It used to have blurred the background of the participant in video calls in Teams. Now it provides the ability to change the background images of yours when you connecting to the meetings or while you are at the meetings. If you are looking for a litter extra privacy such as hide where you are or hide the mess around you when you are connecting web conference using Microsoft Teams, Microsoft enables the option to set up your background. You can either blur your background or you can bring an image into your background to cover your privacy around you.   This new option changes the view behind you to effect it looks like your sitting at a different place. How to set up background Image…. Before Join the call The easiest way to set a background image on MS teams is via the join a call page, we all known as lobby or waiting

Gmail accounts hit by phishing attacks

Here is how to stay protected Google has revealed that there are millions of phishing emails receiving from cyber attackers at this outbreak period. Adding more it is seeing 18 million malware and phishing emails have been generated relating to Covid-19 every day. Additionally, there are 240 million coronavirus-related daily spam messages. Most of the time these attacks target people who are working from home. Many of the phishing emails try to manipulate those emails are coming out from WHO, governments or health organizations.   Attacks trying to make sense of urgency in order to trick users to respond to emails.   Google says that it is using machine learning models to identify and filter these threats. Therefore all threats end up not reach into end-users mailboxes. Google has already blocked more than 99.9 percent of spam, phishing, and malware from targeting its users and keep working to protect its clients. Google places protective monitoring to monitor Coronavir

Microsoft adds its Meet Now feature in Skype

Zoom is playing one of the major roles at this pandemic period as a video call platform. Demanding for Zoom is hitting higher more and more than before. Microsoft Skype is competing with Zoom to get high demand for video calling. Microsoft rolled out the Meet Now feature into Skype in December 2019. Meet Now makes easier to set up video calling. Microsoft is very busy now prompting its feature. Skype has used Twitter to promote the latest added feature that allows users to connect important people or love ones in simple and hassle-free way. Microsoft’s Skype has been reached to a spike in usage as the Coronavirus outback had forced people to stay at homes. Advantage of using skype than zoom no account require to set up to user Meet now. Even there is no require downloading the client.   Users are able to create a link with a click and send it to invitees via email. The participant can join the video call using Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. Microsoft skype boasts its u

Error : Get-CsOnlinePowerShellAccessToken : AADSTS50076: Due to a configuration change made by your administrator,

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B elow error popup when trying to connect Skype for Business online connector session. Get-CsOnlinePowerShellAccessToken : AADSTS50076: Due to a configuration change made by your administrator, or because you moved to a new location, you must use multi-factor authentication to access '39624784-6cbe-4a60-afbe-9f46d10fdb27'. Trace ID: e35e09ef-5e7b-4390-b25a-5b47d7c71e00 Correlation ID: a4791461-7d62-478b-985c-fdbee03dfabf Timestamp: 2020-03-30 04:43:58Z At C:\Program Files\Common Files\Skype for Business Online\Modules\SkypeOnlineConnector\SkypeOnlineConnectorStartup.psm1:214 char:28 +              $accessToken = Get-CsOnlinePowerShellAccessToken @params +                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo           : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-CsOnlinePowerShellAccessToken], AdalClaimChallengeException     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.AdalClaimChallengeException,Microsoft.R

Export enterprise voice enabled Skype for Business Users into CSV

This a very useful power shell command. This command mainly uses to export enterprise voice-enabled Skype for Business users into csv file. You can edit filed accordingly requirements of data. Such as what are the filed need to be filled in CSV file. GET-CSUser | Where { $_.EnterpriseVoiceEnabled } | Select-Object DisplayName, SIPAddress, LineURI | Export-Csv -Path "C:\test\csvoiceenabled.csv" The below command can be used to view the results on the power shell. GET-CSUser | Where { $_.EnterpriseVoiceEnabled } | Select-Object DisplayName,LineURI

12 million users enable to user Microsoft Teams in the past week

12 million new users enable on Microsoft Teams in the past week as people are enforced to work from home. MS teams hits 44 million daily users and that shows 37% the spike in one week including home workers. The Coronavirus pandemic has made struggle the daily life of people all over the world and forced millions of people to isolate themselves at home instead of attending to offices or schools. Many of them intend to work from home while they quarantine. Microsoft Teams chatting, conferencing, and collaboration app helps those people to continue performed their work being at home. Microsoft team is free to use. Therefore, it reaches 44 million people who use it each day. The Coronavirus outbreak has caused to make high demand of usage, particular jump high numbers in Europe. Microsoft said that 12 million new users started to use its services on a daily basis since 11 th March. Many companies implemented chat apps such as MS Teams, Facebook chat, and Google chat to

Microsoft Teams outage for two hours

Yesterday morning Microsoft Teams went down for two hours. That was impacted users who logged in remotely and online. Many European countries follow the self-isolating procedures and ask workers to work from home instead of traveling to their offices. This is not the first time for this year so far. MS teams went down last month for several hours due to an expired TLS certificate. Microsoft forgot to renew the certificate. This time it happened about 8.30am UTC and it seems all UK users logged in to Teams remotely. Many works in Europ are establishing work from home due to the Coronavirus. This outage occurred while unpredicted European users logging in to work remotely.   it was suspected that Microsoft was not able to cater to the load at the time. Microsoft 365 administration could not view much information on Admin Centre portal. Still unclear what was the issue what were the steps that took to mitigate the issue. Everyone expecting Microsoft will provide a proper statem