I’ve recently been working on reconfiguring my existing Ribbon SBCs to support Microsoft Teams. There are a few decent blogs around showing how to configure Direct Routing (and this is easy enough), but not many about the newest feature, Local Media Optimization (LMO). If I’m honest, this has taken me…

If you are playing around with location based routing or local media optimization in Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, you will have no doubt had to configure Trusted IPs and network sites in Microsoft Teams. In order for LBR or LMO to work correctly, a client needs to be determined to…

If you’ve stumbled upon this post, you’ve probably run into a problem joining a Microsoft Teams meeting using a 3PIP phone such as a Polycom Trio, Polycom VVX, AudioCodes or Yealink. As explained in this excellent and thorough post by Jeff Schertz, Microsoft have implemented a SIP to Teams audio…

I think it’s pretty safe to say that background blur or custom backgrounds is one of the most used and most liked features of Microsoft Teams. …

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but since the recent 4.0.105.0 …

I’ve already written a bit about the Crestron Flex solution in a separate thread about Microsoft Teams Rooms, but thought I’d give it it’s own post considering the interest that the Crestron Flex solution seems to be getting at the moment. So, here goes… Crestron have broken down their Flex…

As some of you may know, the company I work for is on a quest to define a new set of room standards for video conferencing. We have long been a Microsoft house and have run their communications suite going all the way back to LCS. Our standard for the…

Just over a year ago I had a bit of a rant about the state of the native Microsoft meeting room systems. You can read the original post here. Since that time the original post has had almost 5000 views, we’ve had Ignite, we’ve had Enterprise Connect, Trump has damaged…

If there ever was a blog post borne out of learning something on the fly, it’s this one. Okay, before I start, when I talk about SfB* coexistence modes, I mean any of the SfBWithTeamsCollab, SfBWithTeamsCollabAndMeetings or SfBOnly coexistence modes. I don’t want to type SfBWithTeamsCollab about a million times…