Hello Readers, I hope you’re well.

Welcome to Episode 56 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry).

This week we finally do our Ignite special. A bit late but we had to move the recording 4 times to get here. Better late than never. And we think some of the news after Ignite added colour to what was announced. You’ll see (hear) when you listen.

Here’s the list

Ignite news

Other news since Ignite

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Hello Readers, I hope you’re well.

Welcome to Episode 55 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry).

This week we chat about the latest Teams news from the Message Centre and Roadmap.

Here’s the list

Be sure to catch Microsoft Ignite starting next week. There will be loads of announcements coming as usual. And stay tuned for our Ignite special shortly after.

Thanks for listening! Catch you next time.

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Hello Readers, I hope you’re well.

Welcome to Episode 54 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry).

This week we chat with Mark about his day job at Callroute.

Callroute is a small company in the south of England who started with a platform to deliver telephony to Teams through Direct Routing as a service, but with a unique widard based sign up and provisioning process. The simple process starts with giving an app some permissions to read and write to your tenant. Which means you can be making and receiving calls in under 10 minutes from start to finish.

Mark went on to talk about Callroutes latest service which launched on the day of recording. The ner service is all about user lifecycle management.

Callroute User Personas gives admins the ability to create custom policy sets which contain all of the user assignable Teams policies for a given persona. A persona could be a location or job role or a function or a project. You decide what you need, then create a bunch of user policies in Teams Admin Centre. All policies are in scope, including the voice policies. When ready you can sync the policies to Callroute and create your personas. Think of personas like Teams policy packages, but without the need for an additional Teams license. Once you have created your personas you create conditions for auto assignment and let Callroute do the rest. As new users are added to Callroute via the sync function, when they match a persona they are assigned a package.

I don’t want to give away too much and let you listen to Mark explain it.

Stay tuned for some additional content from me as I get started with Callroute telephony service and put User Personas through its paces.

If you want to know more about Callroute, visit their website at Callroute.com. They have a chat tool on the site. They also have a great knowledgebase on everything Callroute does, including User Persona Management.

You can also see Callroute at UC Expo Callroute To Exhibit Auto-Provisioning At UC Expo at Stand S76. Hope you enjoy.

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave a comment below.

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Hello Readers, I hope you’re well.

Welcome to Episode 53 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry).

This week we chat about some of the most recent news for Teams Rooms and Teams Phone. I pulled some stuff from the Message Centre, What’s new in Teams Blogs and the Roadmap. Then we had a big whinge about the tooling and management for MTR.

Here’s the short list of topics

After this, at around the 40 minute mark, we talk about the opportunities for better tooling and management for MTR.

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave a comment below.

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Hello Readers, I hope you’re well.

Welcome to Episode 52 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry).

This week we chat about Teams Telephony, Teams Phone, Teams Calling and Voice stuff. Yes I know they are all the same but I wanted to try to make it sound exciting.

I pulled some stuff from the Message Centre, What’s new in Teams Blogs and the Roadmap

We also chat about Teams Phone Mobile (what was called Operator Connect Mobile) and an alternative from Tango Networks.

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave a comment below.

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Hello Readers, I hope you’re well.

Welcome to Episode 51 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry).

This week we chat about a long list of news and new stuff from the Microsoft 365 Message Centre.

If you didn’t know, that’s a great source of news. The Roadmap serves it up, sometimes a year in advance and with a rough idea of when its gonna land. The Message Centre is when its imminent, although sometimes several months out, or more. You also need to check frequently because the posts get updated with new timelines as they slip a month or 3. And if for no other reason, you should absolutely check the message centre because some things require admin work to prepare for what’s coming. Or it warns of things being switched off, like Skype for Business phones on Teams. You can of course listen here and get a filtered list of what we think is interesting.

The list:

As always we had a lot of fun so have a listen.

One last shameless plug. See you at Commsverse in a few days

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Hello Readers, I hope you’re well.

Welcome to Episode 50 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Mark Vale (@markvale83) talking about Commsverse 2023 which is just around the corner on 21st and 22nd of June (as I write this, it is week after next).

This year will be our biggest yet. So if you’re into Microsoft Teams or Viva there is still time to grab a ticket.

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave a comment below.

You can listen in-line in this post, or if you prefer, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Podcasts, TuneIn or iHeartRadio. The links are below.

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