In November 2025 at Ignite, Microsoft announce a new Copilot license for Small and Medium businesses. Microsoft 365 Copilot Business allows organisations with M365 Business licenses (Basis, Standard and Premium) to access M365 Copilot for $21 per month (circa £16 Continue reading How to add Microsoft 365 Copilot Business license to your M365 Tenant
Microsoft announced some Office 365 certificate changes last year: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/encryption-office-365-tls-certificates-changes?view=o365-worldwide If you’re using Microsoft Teams Direct Routing you need to apply a new root certificate to your SBCs. More specifically if your SBC has “TLS Mutual Authentication” enabled on the Continue reading Teams – How to add DigiCert Global Root G2 root certificate to AudioCodes SBC
Big shout out to Kieran Lloyd for suggesting this: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kieranlloyd Teams now has a Push To Talk feature on the desktop app by pressing {ctrl} +{ space}. This is a bit like a Walkie Talkie, holding the PTT keys will Continue reading Microsoft Teams – Push To Talk via Mouse Button
The Challenge Microsoft document how to collect Teams log files here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/log-files The process is fairly simple in Windows 10, right click the Teams icon in the System Tray and click “Collect support files” This will download a folder to Continue reading Teams – Client Log File Viewer
History Unlike Lync & Skype for Business, Teams doesn’t have a method to handle unassigned numbers (yet). There is a UserVoice post here requesting the feature: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38673550-unassigned-number-range Typically the unassigned numbers feature was used to program ALL available number ranges Continue reading Microsoft Teams – Handle unassigned numbers with Direct Routing
When calling a Teams Call Queue, by default it will play the Microsoft default hold music which is same as Response Groups in Lync and Skype for Business. One of the things I always get asked by customers is “Can Continue reading Teams – UK Ringback Tone for Call Queues
At the time of writing it’s not possible to enable Teams Direct Routing users via Teams Admin Center, only via PowerShell commands. This PowerShell script launches a WinForms GUI that can be used by anyone. This is useful for enabling Continue reading Teams – Enable users for Direct Routing PowerShell GUI
A very popular Topology for Direct Routing is to deploy a certified Session Border Controller into Microsoft Azure with SIP Trunks to Teams Phone System and SIP Trunks to a PSTN provider. There are Azure Datacentres all over the world, Continue reading Teams Direct Routing – Don’t forget the NSG on your Azure SBC!
I am writing this post in January 2021 as all school children in the UK now have to study from home. A friend recently asked me how they can run Microsoft Teams on their kids Amazon Fire Tablet. My immediate Continue reading How To Install Microsoft Teams on an Amazon Fire Tablet
This post explains an easy way to block nuisance callers using an AudioCodes SBC. Whilst it’s possible to use New-CsInboundBlockedNumberPattern with Microsoft Teams, what if another type of PBX or Contact Centre hooked up to your SBC? These calls would Continue reading AudioCodes – Block nuisance inbound calls