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Hey friends! It’s me! Your friendly neighborhood communications & collaboration blogger. It’s a new year (FY26!) at Microsoft and this year I’m stretching a bit and engaging in our full AI Workforce solution stack including Copilot. This is a big… Read moreMy Sandbox 365: Copilot – Customer Visit Followup
Hi friends, welcome back! A couple posts ago, I dove into our Teams Device AOSP Firmware Upgrade which is currently in various stages of testing and GA rollout depending on your hardware OEM / manufacturer and model. Today’s post is… Read moreUpcoming Teams Devices Updates – Spring/Summer 2025
Hello friends! And now it’s time for something COMPLETELY different for me – Windows! Yes. Windows. Recently I’ve taken an interest in Windows 365 which is a cloud-based service that automatically creates a new type of Windows virtual machine (Cloud… Read moreMy Demo 365: Windows 365 Cloud PC – Simple Version
Hi friends! I’m back again with another post on Teams Devices. I’m sure you’re shocked – shocked I say! Today, I want to focus on Teams Devices Management. Since the launch of Native Teams Devices, they have been “managed” in… Read moreMy Demo 365: Teams Devices – AOSP Device Management
Hello! Me again! It’s been a minute since I’ve come up for air. You may recall I’ve written extensively on Teams Phone Shared Calling powered by 1P Calling Plans, Operator Connect, and even Direct Routing. One super exciting new enhancement… Read moreMy Demo 365: Teams Phone – Shared Calling – Extension Dialing Support
Hello friends! I’m back today with an update to a previous post. A few months ago I wrote what has turned out to be a very popular post on Bookable Desks in Microsoft Teams. This provides the ability to either… Read moreMy Demo 365: Bookable Desks in Microsoft Teams – Automatic Work Location
Yup! We’re back! It’s time for another post in the probably never-ending series on Teams Phone Shared Calling! I’ve written about a number of Shared Calling items and I thought I’d connect a couple dots for you. Last month you… Read moreMy Demo 365: Teams Phone- Shared Calling – Direct Routing Edition
Hi there! Me again! This is part 2 of a series on Teams Phone Direct Routing. In Part 1 of this series we successfully deployed an AudioCodes SBC (Virtual Edition) from the Azure Marketplace. We then created an appropriate Teams… Read moreMy Demo 365: Teams Phone Direct Routing – AudioCodes SBC Virtual Edition – Part 2
Howdy! If you’ve been a long-time reader, you know I spend most of my time writing about technical concepts like networking, or Microsoft Teams in general, but mostly around Teams Phone and Teams Devices. One thing I’ve never walked through… Read moreMy Demo 365: Teams Phone Direct Routing – AudioCodes SBC Virtual Edition
Hi friends! Welcome back! This is my first post for Microsoft Fiscal Year 2025. I thought I’d start FY25 off with a bang and write about a new Microsoft Teams feature I’m pretty stoked about called Bookable Desks. This provides… Read moreMy Demo 365: Bookable Desks in Microsoft Teams