UCStatus Podcast Episode 62: Operator Connect and the latest Teams news

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well.

Welcome to Episode 62 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry).

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

Here’s the list

• Operator Connect hits 100 operators and 100 countries covered. The scale of coverage goes from a single country by one or more operators to a tie at 66 countries covered by two operators. We discuss Operator Connect at length
• update your Teams devices to avoid disruption. Microsoft has multiple posts begging you to install updates on your Teams devices so nothing bad happens one day. This includes Teams phones, Teams panel and Teams Rooms. Now you’re going to say that Microsoft auto updates devices now and you can only delay it by 90 days. It seems many customers out there are on such old versions of the Teams app that they don’t have the ability to be auto updated by Microsoft TAC. Here’s one MC post. So get updating your devices please

• Teams Display support ending 2025
• Microsoft extended support for a bunch of old Teams phones that should have end of lifed

At this point the Teams client decided it didn’t like the audio setup I was using. For reference, Focusrite Scarlett and Logi Yeti Studio mic and Logi Zone wired earbuds. Since it was mic and speakers that failed I am blaming Teams and the Focusrite USB interface. But what a fail. Fortunately I have backup devices and could just change it on the fly. I cut out about 2 minutes of Mark and Shawn laughing at me to spare you. But thought I would leave in the rest as an example of how any component could just fail.

The rest of the list

• voice isolation is now available on Mac
• Participant grouping on MTR and BYOD rooms when joining the same meeting in the room or for proximity join
• Users will have exclusive control over their voice and video enrollment data – for Intelligent audio/video
• IntelliFrame video feeds now available on Teams mobile
• Unified view of teams and channels
• Ability to Start and stop recording on MTR on Windows
• Multi-camera view on MTR on Windows
• PTZ control on MTR on Windows
• Ability to change between framing modes on MTR on Windows
• Ability to rename the general channel becomes no general channel for newly created teams

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