Category Archives: Teams

“New” Teams 2.1 and VDI, You better get ready!

Are you still using Windows Server 2016?Citrix older than 1912 LTSR CU6? (Oct 2022)VMWare older than Horizon 8.4? (Sept 2022)You might want to read this article! One of the topics I recently discussed at the Melbourne UC Meetup was the impending forced upgrade of the Microsoft Teams Classic client. Microsoft has done a great job… Read More »

Convert User/VoiceApp Numbers on Telstra Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams

Australian users rejoice. Telstra has recently deployed a new Operator Connect offering for Microsoft Teams, making administration of your numbers and environment considerably easier.In this article, I will show you how to Convert User/VoiceApp Numbers on Telstra Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams. Context For those not aware, previously, Telstra offered a product called “Telstra Calling… Read More »

Issues Upgrading to Teams Native mode when using Cloudflare DNS

Recently I ran into an issue upgrading my test Teams tenant from hybrid Skype4B mode to Teams only mode. When running I was getting an error advising that one of my domains was currently homed on a Skype for Business deployment, interestingly a domain that has never had Skype4B on it. This wasn’t an IP… Read More »

Teams Phone Handsets, Native, SIP and 3PIP compared!

In a previous post. you might have noticed I was pretty excited to see that the SIP Gateway for Microsoft Teams has launched. While limited, this allows for a ton of customers to re-use their existing fleets of supported handsets. One of the things I have been asked a few times by my customers is… Read More »

Poly Rove is a Teams DECT Phone? It’s more likely than you think! (HowTo)

Ah yes, referencing an early 2000’s NetNanny meme in my opening? I’m sure it makes a nice change from my normal content. Welcome back to UcMadScientist. Today we are talking about Microsoft Teams and Cordless Phone handset solutions. For the longest time since the launch of Teams calling. Customers have been looking at replacing their… Read More »

Faster Sonus/Ribbon Log File Analysis with PowerShell

Have you ever written a cool tool, put it up on GitHub and then totally forgotten to tell everyone about it? Well, I wrote a call Sonus/Ribbon PowerShell log parser and forgot to tell everyone. And it’s super embarrassing! Why? I got so sick and tired of firing up Ribbons on “LX” tool every single… Read More »

Teams Phone “Paging” is here?

It’s no secret that Microsoft has been working hard on improving the Teams calling experience, especially for handsets over the last few months. As part of What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2022 update, Microsoft announced that Walkie Talkie had finally come to Teams Phone Edition. This was thought to be the nail in… Read More »

Local Logging on Sonus/Ribbon SBC1000 without an ASM? Can we add it?

This was an article I was working on whilst reverse engineering a Sonus SBC that ended up electrocuting me. So I’ve kinda fallen out of love with the project for now, Part 2 in the future? Maybe. For those that aren’t aware of Sonus/Ribbon devices, many SBCs include a small internal log cache for troubleshooting.… Read More »

Reverse Engineering the new Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway – Part 1

It here. it’s here. it’s finally here! The long-awaited SIP gateway for Microsoft Teams is here. Note: This is a deeply technical article on how the SIP Gateway provisioning service works, if you’re just looking to get your SIP phones working, Martin Boam has a great article over here Unfortunately, despite my begging, I didn’t… Read More »

Recovering a Sonus/Ribbon ASM with no OS on it

Ever bricked an ASM before? Maybe it was a bad ASM upgrade, maybe you replaced the hard drive in there, or maybe you were stupid enough to Install Doom on it. The issue with any of these is, it breaks the ASM’s SBC Communication Module and the built-in Recovery partition which when looking at the… Read More »