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So it’s been a while since I’ve posted here, primarily due to the fact I’ve changed jobs a few times. I had a brief hiatus from the Unified Communications world, but I’m back where I guess I belong – this time at Microsoft. One of the first feature items I picked up was associated with […]

Thursday, December 8th, 2022 at 11:31 | 0 comments
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So last week the one of the biggest Microsoft UC events took place in the UK, Commsverse. I was planning on travelling over, but in the end I opted to present virtually. I’d usually jump at the chance to go back to blighty, but it still felt a little too soon for transatlantic travel. I […]

Friday, September 24th, 2021 at 09:28 | 0 comments
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So my day job, at Poly, requires that I test a load of native Microsoft Teams devices – it’s a hard job, but somebody got to do it! 😉 This can throw into the mix some interesting scenarios, one of which is reaching the cap of maximum registered Intune devices (to a user), which by […]

Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 at 16:30 | 0 comments
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Microsoft’s Teams device strategy leverages Android as a platform, this currently includes IP Phones and will also incorporate a new category of devices recently announced at Ignite – Collaboration Bars for Microsoft Teams, more on this here. One common occurrence is that when these devices are connected to Azure Active Directory, Mobile Device Management (MDM) […]

Thursday, November 21st, 2019 at 13:45 | 0 comments
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Ignite was great this year and I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to speak again. This year I decided to focus all up on Teams device deployment gotchas, more specifically issues that have been raised via customers. A video and the deck has now been posted here.

Thursday, November 21st, 2019 at 10:49 | 0 comments
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Yesterday Microsoft published a blog article, which announced their plans to revoke support for the existing Azure application ID leveraged by their 3rd party device vendors. The existing application ID is embedded within each respective device firmware and today this is pointed at an Azure application hosted within Microsoft’s tenant. Microsoft’s goal here is for […]

Friday, April 26th, 2019 at 12:29 | 8 comments
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