UCStatus Podcast Episode 63: How to make a good cup of tea, and the latest Teams news

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well.

Welcome to Episode 63 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry).

This week was again a random list of stuff I found interesting in the Message centre and roadmap for Teams.

Here’s the list

• New Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Call Hold Synchronization
• Queues App is now GA
• SBA Enhancements
  • SBA survivability window now increased from 24 hours to 7 days
  • Microsoft user and phone auth tokens last up to 24 hours. Previously expired tokens are supported by the SBA for up to 7 days
  • The SBA supports Windows and Mac desktop client and Teams Phones. eams phone devices
• Speed dial customization using line keys for non-touch phones and sidecars
• New policy for voice and face enrollment. Set to on by default
  • Before this rollout, the current policy csTeamsMeetingPolicy has a single setting, EnrollUserOverride, that allows the administrator to enable or disable the enrollment of both face and voice profile of users.
  • After this rollout, the new csTeamsAIPolicy will replace the existing enrollment setting in csTeamsMeetingPolicy. The new csTeamsAIPolicy has two settings, EnrollFace and EnrollVoice, that will be set to Enabled by default.
• New Teams Combined Chat and Channel experience rolling out now
• Digital Signage on MTR on Windows now GA
  • Use a correctly formatted URL, Appspace or Xogo
  • Blogs and videos coming soon
• Pexip Connect for Teams Rooms is now GA
  • This enables you to forward an invite with a SIP join URL to your MTR email address to get a one touch join button. Rather than joining over Direct Guest Join it joins using the Pexip CVI. This means you get a more native join experience for any 3rd party meeting and more features including dual screen join and content ingest.
  • Blogs and videos coming soon
• Cloud Intelliframe new admin controls. Admins can turn off “require supported camera” to expand the camera support. E.g. cameras that can optically zoom to group frame before Microsoft applies the digital cropping for Cloud IntelliFrame
• BYOD enhancements
  • Enhanced shared display mode with room audio auto-detect in a BYOD room
  • Automatically set workplace presence in a BYOD room
  • Participant roster grouping in Teams BYOD rooms
• Start/stop recording on MTRoW
• Multi camera view on MTRoW – MTRoW will allow you to create a view from up to 4 single stream cameras and send that as the default video feed from the room. Users will also be able to switch between the cameras and choose the view they want
• Native PTZ controls on MTRoW
• TAC configured custom display name on Teams Panels (rather than in the Exchange mailbox)

Behind the scenes sneak peak

I thought you might find this interesting. This is the Copilot recap of the Teams meeting we used to record the episode. It shows a decent summary and a speech track of the three of us and who talked when.

Once we finish talking about Teams we start talking about tea. Coming from an American living in the UK for almost 30 years, America can’t make tea right.

Proper tea recipe

1. boil your kettle
2. get a good teabag and put it in a cup
3. pour over the boiled water
4. start a timer for 3 minutes and 30 seconds
5. stir to move the bag around a little
6. Once the timer ends stir the bag around
7. remove the teabag with a spoon and squeeze the bag against the spoon to release all the remaining water and flavour from the bag
8. add a splash of milk (if you like that) and suger or sweetener if you want
9. A final stir
10. enjoy

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