Microsoft Teams

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.g. Add a new tab. I then started to look what could be achieved using Microsoft’s Graph API and started writing scripts to perform tasks. As the scripts grew it made far more sense to put this in to a tool - and so, TeamsAdminTool was born. ...

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: ...

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: ...

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. ...

This article is now out-of-date, please refer to this article for Deploying an AudioCodes SBC in Azure using the Azure Marketplace.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. I don’t believe the steps will change when it hit’s GA - but I will update this post if it does. ...

Last Updated: 13th August 2020 Introduction Microsoft has released Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams. 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. In this post, I’ll go over how to do this with an AudioCodes SBC and SIP trunks. I shan’t go into any more detail than is required, as the documentation from Microsoft and AudioCodes is pretty good (see references at bottom of post). ...

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? If you have many rules it might not be apparent which pattern(s) are blocking it. I’ve set up a pattern called test to demonstrate this. The pattern will match +441234567890 or 441234567890: ...