Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to episode 11 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry), Mark Vale (@unifiedvale) and a special guest from Ribbon Communications. This week we chat with Matt Hurst (@Matt_Hurst1), technical director for Ribbon UK about Ribbon’s growing portfolio of solutions for Microsoft Teams. […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to episode 10 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and a special guest, Graham Walsh (@graham_walsh) from Crestron. This week we chat with Graham about all things meeting room. From devices and peripherals, to use cases, usability and supportability and a […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to episode 9 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@unifiedvale) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry), and a special guest from AudioCodes. This week we chat with John Stewart-Murray, pre-sales consultant from AudioCodes UK and dive into one of the broadest product and solution portfolios […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to episode 8 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and a special guest, Mark Armstrong from Code Software. This week we talk about reporting in Teams. Why is it needed, what is needed when it is delivered and some options and […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to episode 7 of the UCStatus Podcast. As usual, this episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@unifiedvale) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we say happy birthday to Teams, which turned 3 this month. Teams launched into public preview on 2nd November 2016, then four-and-a-half months later, the […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to episode 6 of the UCStatus Podcast. As usual, this episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@unifiedvale) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week’s podcast is a bit if a Teams news roundup. We put together a list and had a chat as usual. And we did our best […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to episode 5 of the UCStatus Podcast. As usual, this episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@unifiedvale) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about Teams phones and phone/device management. We spend time talking about the vendors and their current range of phones, what’s good and what […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to episode 4 of the UCStatus Podcast. As usual, this episode features me, Mark Vale (@unifiedvale) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about what’s new in Teams for January 2020. Tech Community Post here We do meander a bit, and talk about the use case for […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to episode 3 of the UCStatus Podcast. As usual, this episode features me, Mark Vale (@unifiedvale) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about Teams telephony and the need and options for resiliency of voice and other Teams services. It was an interesting chat with an interesting […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to episode 2 of the UCStatus Podcast. As usual, this episode features me, Mark Vale (@unifiedvale) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we have three topics Should Microsoft introduce a lightweight Teams desktop client? Why do the British display their phone number wrong? a.k.a. Do you really need […]