TeamsAdminTool - Manage Teams, Channels and Tabs easily

 Posted on May 19, 2019  |  5 minutes  |  Lee Ford

Disclaimer: This script is provided ‘as-is’ without any warranty or support. Use of this script is at your own risk and I accept no responsibility for any damage caused. Introduction For a while I’ve been managing Teams using the Teams Admin Centre and PowerShell module but there have been some tasks I’d like to undertake that were not possible unless I joined the Team I wanted to make the change for e. [Read More]
Microsoft Teams 

Change Teams to the Default IM App (by using a script)

 Posted on March 8, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Lee Ford

Introduction When using Office applications, such as Outlook, you will see the presence and contact cards that appear when hovering over a user. From here you can initiate actions such as an IM or call etc. This is all based on the “DefaultIMApp” value in the current user’s registry. If the user is using Skype for Business, this does not need any action from the user. However, in Teams, this needs to be enabled by the user under settings in Teams: [Read More]
Microsoft Teams  PowerShell 

New Team request for Teams using Flow (and Graph API)

 Posted on February 7, 2019  |  5 minutes  |  Lee Ford

Whilst Flow does have some integration with Microsoft Teams, one missing feature is the ability to create a Team in Microsoft Teams (you can create Channels, messages etc.). With recent additions to Graph API, you can create a Team using a template and a Graph API call. This API call can be used within a flow. In this scenario, I’m going to create a flow to create a Team. This will work like so: [Read More]
Flow  Graph API  Microsoft Teams 

Send Message Cards with Microsoft Teams

 Posted on January 22, 2019  |  4 minutes  |  Lee Ford

Microsoft Teams has a feature that I don’t see used or talked about a whole lot - Cards. Cards allow you to post a container to a Teams channel. The type of card I will use here is a Message Card. These can contain text, images, links etc. Message Cards are not to be confused with Adaptive Cards. These are entirely different and are not exclusive to Teams. Adaptive cards are more flexible and interactive than Message Cards but unfortunately, do not support the method I employ here - Incoming Webhook. [Read More]
Flow  Microsoft Teams  Office 365 

Direct Routing in Azure using AudioCodes Mediant SBC Azure Edition - Part 1

 Posted on July 2, 2018  |  4 minutes  |  Lee Ford

This article is now out-of-date, please refer to this article for Deploying an AudioCodes SBC in Azure using the Azure Marketplace. Introduction I’ve written in the past about deploying AudioCodes SBC into Azure by using Azure Site Recovery. Whilst this works, it’s not supported! I recently asked AudioCodes if there were any plans to officially release an “Azure Edition” of the SBC and to my surprise, they said “Yes”. It’s about to hit GA, but I’ve been given a pre-release build to try. [Read More]
AudioCodes  Azure  Microsoft Teams 

Teams Direct Routing with an AudioCodes SBC

 Posted on May 21, 2018  |  15 minutes  |  Lee Ford

Introduction Last Updated: 13/05/19 Microsoft has released Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams. This is one of the big steps – in my opinion – of making parity with Skype Online. Direct Routing effectively allows you to connect up existing PSTN connectivity (e.g. SIP trunks) into a certified SBC and route directly to Teams. This differs from the Skype Online method of doing this, in that you no longer need any hardware (on-premises Skype for Business Server or a CCE) other than an SBC. [Read More]
Direct Routing  Microsoft Teams 

One Liner: Check if a PSTN number is blocked in Skype Online or Teams

 Posted on May 14, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  Lee Ford

Recently added to Skype Online and Teams is the ability to block inbound calls based on their caller ID. Useful for blocking nuisance callers. Once you’ve added the patterns, you ideally want to know: If the calling numbers you want to block will be caught in your patterns. Regex is not my strong suit so want to make sure it will match. Are some calls going to be inadvertently blocked? [Read More]
Microsoft Teams  Skype for Business