Martin Gibney - Microsoft Teams

When we have a scenario whereby a customer has offices in two main global regions, we want to ensure traffic remains within the region where possible. For this post we assume our two regions are the US and the EU. We create and deploy a separate SBC in each region. We want to keep  24*7 phone availability so we install one SBC in Azure US and another in Azure EU. This way we provide the customer with very highly available base for the SBCs. The deployment of the SBC itself is outside the scope of this post but will be covered in another separate post. We configure the SBCs in a failover scenario in that if the primary SBC for the site is unavailable, then the call will automatically route (after 5 seconds – using the -FailoverTimeSeconds parameter) to the SBC in the opposite site. We do this through the use of the - FailoverResponseCodes in the Set-CsOnlinePSTNGateway command. We can find a full list of SIP response codes here: https://www.3cx.com/pbx/sip-responses/ A co...

  You can now manage the meeting options through the Teams app in the meeting itself (rather than the web page management link we used to have to do). To do this from within the meeting, click on the ellipses (...)   button at the top of the window and then select Meeting Options Now we can see, and change any of the default settings: Who can bypass the lobby: Here we can alter the default setting which was set at our tenant level. We may need to open the lobby to others by default in instances where the meeting owner can't make the meeting or want to allow guests join this (or recurring) meetings. We can chose the following options here:   Who can bypass the lobby?  What happens Recommended when... Only you As the meeting organizer, only you can get into your meeting directly. Everyone else will wait in the lobby. You want everyone else to wait in the lobby until you're ready to admit them....