Blog Posts
Block Unwanted Calls in Teams: Say Goodbye to Distractions with Our Powerful Call Blocker Tool
Common reasons for blocking SPAM calls There are several options available to block SPAM calls in Microsoft Teams: The Teams Call Blocker Tool focuses on the first option above, simply put, the PowerShell is wrapped in a GUI to simplify the management. Blocking Numbers with PowerShell makes use of the CsInboundBlockedNumberPattern command. CsInboundBlockedNumberPattern is a…
READ MORE
Sharing files up to 10GBs via email, no Cloud Storage required
Its often a real pain sharing large files with others who are not part of your usual team. There are so many cloud storage options and its fairly simple to send a link over to someone. Of course you need to remember to stop sharing too. Not to mention that, depending on the platform, the…
READ MORE
Finding Time to meet – The easy way
Its no secret that I am hard to pin down for meetings. I have an extremely busy calendar, that means that a simple meeting invite needs to be at least a week, preferably two, in advance for any sort of chance to lock in a spot. Sure I could share my calendar with internal staff,…
READ MORE
“Microsoft 365 Business Voice” extends Dial-tone to Small and Medium Business
Having found myself in a smaller country and subsequently the home of smaller businesses I have come up against a large show stopper in the past when talking Cloud PBX. Previously, if you wanted to add Phone System licensing to your users they would need to be licensed as at least E3. This has made…
READ MORE
Microsoft Teams: connect to meeting services from Zoom and Webex natively
Yes its true, coming early 2020 Teams will support the “direct guest join” capability. Essentially this simply means that you can join Zoom and Webex meetings from your Teams Room System. Basically clicking the meeting join button joins the participant from the browser based client. Currently launching the browser to join is suppressed, but as…
READ MORE
Skype for Business Trusted Root Certificate Authorities strike again
Issue This issue was flagged as a Contact Center that’s unable to receive calls. Shortly after it was noted that users we where unable to join or create meetings using the “Meet Now” option within the SFB client and that the RGS service was failing to start. Environment is Skype for Business 2015, Standard Edition.…
READ MORE
NextGen Digital 