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Microsoft 365 Common Area Phone

Published by Joerg Hochwald on 2020-05-09

Sometimes you might want a Phone located in your lobby, or in meeting room. These phones are typical use cases for “Common Area Phone“!

There is a license SKU available in Microsoft 365: Common Area Phone (MCOCAP)
The price in Germany is about 6,70 Euro per month and device (80,40 Euro per year and device), so basically the same as the Microsoft 365 Phone System.

You get the following components as part of this SKU:

Microsoft 365 Phone System (MCOEV)
Microsoft Teams (TEAMS1)
Skype for Business Online Plan 2 (MCOSTANDARD)

Common Area Phone option in Microsoft 365

Remove access to all Exchange Online Mailboxes

Remove access to all Exchange Online Mailboxes

Published by Joerg Hochwald on 2020-04-21

During the COVID-19 crisis, I onboarded several customers to Microsoft Office 365. Many of them started new because the want Microsoft Teams for Video Conferencing and collaboration. Some organisations does not want Exchange Online Mailboxes, at least not yet.

Create or modify a Azure AD Naming Policy for Office 365 Groups

Create or modify a Azure AD Naming Policy for Office 365 Groups

Published by Joerg Hochwald on 2020-04-20

Microsoft offers the capability to enforce a naming convention to Microsoft Office 365 Groups (a/k/a Unified Groups). What I like about that: You can enforce the naming convention and also blacklist some words. This might become handy to prevent someone creating a group called “HR”.

Poly Calisto 7200 – Some initial impressions

Poly Calisto 7200 – Some initial impressions

Published by Joerg Hochwald on 2020-04-13

A while ago someone on LinkedIn told me, that I should try the Poly (Plantronics) Calisto 7200! So I decided, to order one for doing some tests, mostly because I needed a replacement for my Poly (Polycom) Trio 8800. The Trio was attached to my Microsoft Teams Room (MTR) System as native audio device.

Backup the BitLocker Recovery Info to AzureAD

Published by Joerg Hochwald on 2020-04-13

For a project, a customer want to move all remote workers from domain joined to AzureAD joined. We created several packaged and a new an installation and setup routine. One challenge was the BitLocker recovery information. The customer had the recovery information saved in his Active Directory before. For Hybrid joined systems, this might also an option, but for AzureAD only systems it isn’t.

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Microsoft 365 Common Area Phone

Remove access to all Exchange Online Mailboxes

Create or modify a Azure AD Naming Policy for Office 365 Groups

Poly Calisto 7200 – Some initial impressions

Backup the BitLocker Recovery Info to AzureAD