teams PSTN Numbers lost due to group licensing
Losing PSTN phone numbers in Teams can be frustrating, especially when the tenant admin team has done nothing wrong. If you license numbers through groups, removing and adding back users can be a bit dodgy, and it’s important to use the associated service plan with care.
create teams desktop shortcut with PowerShell
Please note that this is for the classic Teams. The newer Teams version 2.0 has slightly changed. You can read about inserting a Windows desktop shortcut, for the new Teams client, with PowerShell here.
So, when installing Teams in a windows desktop, the shortcut is no longer there. So no Teams shortcut on the desktop.
That is bad (or good), there is also no option to add the shortcut through the Teams app itself. How to get around this?
teams meetings recordings: 60-day expiry
So, just found out that any new meeting recordings made within Microsoft Teams, and stored on OneDrive and SharePoint will automatically expire after sixty (60) days.
fix teams call forwarding with autoattendant
So, this is a shout out to those admins that use the Teams AutoAttendant feature.
We did see a configuration, where the menu options were being set to dial external PSTN numbers. Some were working, some were not.
What is going on there then?
what is the microsoft teams updates application?
So, there was an app that turned up in the latest build of Teams (I saw it in Windows 1.5.00.16653 (64-bit)).
It was called “Updates”:
The “scary” thing was that it wasn’t possible to control this app using app permission policies within Teams. It is a Microsoft app AND can be disabled…
skype for business 2019 – joining meetings using skype meetings app is delayed
Skype for Business 2019. Its kinda new AND old, when online cloud is considered. But the new way in which the web meetings app works is sometimes strange.
Ok, I can’t say I found ALL the answers in this particular puzzle, but I’ll give the ones I’ve found to you.
The scenario was that a customer had a Skype for Business (SfB) 2019 pool hosted and had an issue where people joining any meeting using the Skype Meetings Application. The problem they had was that anyone joining on the web would have to wait at least 40 seconds before any response.
Annoying, eh?
group teams policy not appearing in teams user powershell output
It’s a question of Get-CsOnlineUser showing certain values in fields and not in others. And this all depends on the Teams policy, if it’s a global or per-user policy.
using fiddler to collect https traffic when using powershell with o365
Ok, strange one here. Someone asked me if they could use Fiddler to see the HTTPS traffic going back and forth between their machine and the O365 environment.
Yep of course! You just turn Fiddler on, use the guide to decode the HTTPS traffic using the tool. Like here – https://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/configure-fiddler/tasks/decrypthttps.
Simple I say… then the person asked, “when I’m using PowerShell to access my Teams environment”.
extending SfB 2016 client logging levels (AV)
Well ok… a short one here.
Recently I was working with a Skype for Business (SfB) 2016 client who had an issue with their audio / video (AV) being shown as “disconnected”, after the fourth or fifth call. In particular, the webcam wouldn’t show video on their machine when they tried to join the sixth (or fifth) call.
It was available to see the video on other apps outside of the SfB client. Even though the SfB client didn’t want to see the camera.
using https decoders to get some logs from the teams application
The Teams clients use HTTPS to communicate with the O365 cloud. Mainly for administration, user status (presence and notifications) and other messages for the O365 reporting for the admins.
You all know how to get the Teams logs right? It’s here if you forgot how.
How to get this data then? Well, I’ve been shown two main ways of collecting this data (and I do use them).