Alistair Pidd, Professional Services Director at Pure IP, dives into the evolving landscape of Microsoft Teams in large enterprises. He shares insights on the SIP Gateway's vital role and the complexities of transitioning from legacy phone systems. Alistair discusses the importance of cross-team collaboration for smooth deployments and highlights the growing trend of automation in managing phone solutions. With ongoing changes in Teams, he emphasizes strategic planning to ensure stability and the need for improved analytics in call management.

In this podcast episode, Tom Arbuthnot interviews Michael LaMontagne, a Microsoft Teams expert and the creator of TeamsBoss. TeamsBoss a cloud voice admin and voice operations solution for Microsoft Teams that helps organizations simplify and manage their Teams phone and meeting room operations. It eliminates the need for complex PowerShell commands and allows users to easily manage phone numbers, policies, profiles, and resource accounts for Teams. Thanks to Numoix, the sponsor of this episode. Check out their Teams recording solution Microsoft Teams Recording | Cloud Compliance Recording | IXCloud (numonix.cloud)Michael LaMontagne is an independent consultant and principal product manager for TeamsBoss.TeamsBoss a cloud voice admin and voice operations solution for Microsoft Teams.It offers features like phone number management, profile creation for users based on policies, bulk management of user configurations, and resource account management.The service aims to simplify and automate tasks that are challenging with PowerShell or the Teams Admin Center.TeamsBoss is Azure-based and can be procured from the Azure Marketplace.It uses delegated permissions and does not store tokens or credentials,

In this pod, Vandana Thomas, Product Leader for Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile gives us insight into what Teams Phone mobile is and how it has been going in market

I really enjoyed this conversation. Chul-Young, Product Manager, Collaboration Platforms & Services at Parexel, takes us through his and their Microsoft Teams journey.- Rolling Microsoft Teams out to 20,000 users  in 50 countries in 4 weeks- Keeping things as standard as possible- How is Team creation and lifecycle managed?- With great power comes great responsibility- Experience rolling out Teams Phone and reducing the number of Phone users- Looking at this year and Microsoft Viva

Aaron Steele, Microsoft Technical Program Manager takes us through what is Network Device Interface (NDI) and how can it be used to broadcast Teams meeting content, and how organizations like the NBA and Christie's have used the technology for their events.More about Teams and NDI:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/broadcasting-audio-and-video-from-teams-with-ndi-and-sdi-technology-e91a0adb-96b9-4dca-a2cd-07181276afa3https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/use-ndi-in-meetings

Graham Walsh is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and works for Neat where he is the Product Specialist / Strategic Alliances in EMEAWe get into the neat portfolio. Talk about the neat frame and where we think it fits in the market. Also, the neat bar pro and how it compares to the neat bar and the extensibility there, and a little bit about the upcoming Neat center and where that will play.