Microsoft Teams Phone and Rooms, OEM hardware, Places, the rest of the stack and the odd rival UC platform. Real configs, real gotchas, and I’ve already turned it off and on again so you don’t have to.
Places Toolbox is a free, open-source Windows app that turns every Microsoft Places PowerShell cmdlet into a form, with dry-run recipes for building sites, desks and rooms from a CSV.
CodeRoam is a free, open-source Windows app that syncs your Claude Code chats across every PC you use, encrypted, with no server in the middle.
An open-source Power Platform solution that adds email, and anything else Power Automate can reach, to Teams emergency call notifications, per office.
How to join the Microsoft Places public preview: licensing, Exchange permissions, PowerShell and the Places module, then turning Places on for your users.
I'm speaking at Commsverse 2024 on extending Microsoft Teams emergency call notifications with the Power Platform and Azure Communication Services.
A tour of Neat Pulse, Neat's cloud portal for meeting room devices: the dashboard, adding devices, device details, remote control, profiles and audit logs.
Generate alt text automatically for WordPress images with Azure AI Vision and the free Automatic Alternative Text plugin, plus the limits to know first.
Reuse old IP and DECT phones with Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway: requirements, supported devices, provisioning server URL, conditional access and sign-in.
Connect analogue phones to Microsoft Teams with SIP Gateway: ATA firmware, IP address, provisioning server URL, FXS port provisioning and remote sign-in.
