3PIP comes to an end

 It has now come to the time where 3PIP is about to die. This is the message in M365 to look for.

So what are your options?

Option 1. SIP Gateway

Microsoft has a SIP Gateway that can be used. This is some job and firewall that has to be done before you can start using the service. Read about it here: Configure SIP Gateway - Microsoft

When this is done you can use the phones for more times. 

Option 2. Buy Teams phones

Another option and what some of my customer are thinking about, is to get new Teams phones. They are already planning for this option. And yes it cost money, but it still cost money to have old phones running. And since some of them are EOL (End of Life) and EOS (End Of Support) well. If you are on Teams and plan to use phones. Well do it correct and get Teams phones.

List of certified Teams Phones can be found here. 

Multilanguage Teams meeting invite

 Today I saw someone post on LinkedIN that you now can have multilanguage in the Teams invite.

What I did on our Tenant was this command in Teams Powershell

Set-csteamsmeetingpolicy -identity global -meetinginviteLangunages «nb-no,en-us”

Then I just waited on some backendsync and now my teams meeting invite looks like this:

Norwegian

and English-US

Summer 2022 comes to an end

Summer moved on and here are some cool stuff that has come lately

The summer holiday is going to an end. And what a summer it has been. So let’s wrap up some news Teams and other communities.

 

Powershell version for Teams

Here much has happened the last 4-5 weeks. The new version are now 4.5.0 in GA and not in preview, you find it here:

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/MicrosoftTeams/4.5.0

Read the release notes to see all the changes

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/teams-powershell-release-notes

Dyn365Sales - Teams Telephony

 Some times things just happes and then it result in a blogpost. This post is one of this.What just happened?

Dynamics365 Sales - Teams Telephony

I have worked and did some investigation on Dyn365Sales and how to get this working together with Teams and Telephony in Teams.

Teams got Cast

Teams client got CAST for MAC and Windows

One feature that I saw yesterday was CAST. From the three ... you will now get the 

Commsverse 2022 Mercedes Benz World UK

 Did you know that in June, from the 29-30th there is a hybrid event named Commsverse 2022. 

You find the link here. And what a lineup with speakers. 

New headset on the market. Welcome Yealink BH72

 Finaly, when I got back to the office today, I have got my new toy. As many of you know out there I just love new gadgets. This time I got the Yealink BH72 with charging stand for Teams.

First of all, this is a Teams Certfied Headset.

Teams Powershell module 4.0.0

 Today we got a new version of the Teams Powershell module. 

This is the new current version. You can download it here.

Are you running other versions or preview, please use the -Force element to upgrade

SIP devices in Teams, Tendfor Certified for Teams using API

 Hi readers. Great to be out here again with some news. After 10 days with Covid-19 and other issues. Now it's time to bring som great news to you readers.

More changes to Teams Powershell

 Teams Powershell changes

As you for sure might have see in the M365 admin center, you might have got this message

Dyn365 Customer Service Omnichannel Voice - How we did it

Introduction

This blog would not have been written if there has not been for the great people and skill of the following personal:

Thomas Sandsør from PointTaken AS 

Tricia Sinclair from Avanade (UK)

Kai Stenberg from blinQ AS

How to get Voice in Dynamics365 CS

When starting to plan for Dynamics365 Customer Service Omnichannel Voice, well be aware that one of your options will be to use Direct Routing.

Direct Routing in Azure Communication Service (ACS) are still in preview.

So how did we do it?

Changes in Set-CSUser in Teams Powershell

 For a customer I helped them enable a user for Voice in Teams. Now there are changes comming, so you need to update your scripts. Ran this

Set-CsUser -Identity "sip:fornavn.etternavn@kunde.no" -EnterpriseVoiceEnabled $true -HostedVoiceMail $false -OnPremLineURI tel:+47xxxxxx

Then I get this as a warning

WARNING: OnPremLineURI will be deprecated. Please use LineURI to update user's phone number.

The syntax did work, but for future use you will need to update your scrips to this

Set-CsUser -Identity "sip:fornavn.etternavn@kunde.no" -EnterpriseVoiceEnabled $true -HostedVoiceMail $false -LineURI tel:+47xxxxxx

Use Teams on moblie as a Walkie Talkie

Walkie Talkie for mobile users

 This is a feature some of my customers has start to investigate to use. I have tested it out and this is pretty cool,  when you need to send out a short message to your Team.

It's almost time to wrapup 2021

 2021 is almost gone

It's time to wrapup 2021, and what a Year. We have been in a lockdown most of the year. Work from home are the new standard or even more hybrid working.

Here are some tips and tricks to end 2021. 

SIP devices in TAC (Teams Admin Center)

 SIP Devices in TAC

Have you noticed this in Teams Admin Center?

Teams Direct Routing, Dyn365 Customer Service Omnichannel Voice

 There has been a little while since I lasted blogged here. But the one who is waiting for some are gonna get something good.

Some history

Omnichannel meens that there are several media who can be queued into your contact center. It can be SMS, email, chat, Facebook, WhatApp, LinkedIN and more. So this is not something new that Microsoft has created. I started in around 2005 to deliver this. So it's quite old but very usefull.

Yealink MP54 and MP56 Teams Deskphone

 Finaly back in the office. Here there was two phones waiting for me.

Thank you Yealink for the new firmware

 As for a long time I have been using Yealink WH66. Last week we got a new firmware. And what a change.

It's not perfect, but way much better than before. So here comes the highlights of the new firmware:

New Operator Connect - From 11 to 22

 So, for now the Operator Connect i TAC (Teams Admin Center) has got from 11 to 22. And the service now are in GA.

Cool nice little feature

 This I now will write about is a cool thing I found this morning 😊

I was in the search field looking for a conversation