I wanted help planning an upcoming trip to meet up with friends for the day, previously we had done this by car but I wanted to see if I could have a more relaxed journey going by train so I asking Copilot in Edge to help me...
CRM systems aren’t really my bag, but having spent the last year or so needing to be more familiar with SalesForce than I cared for (not a requirement in my new position!) I can sympathise with having information split across...
All of the Copilots Copilot is the name Microsoft have given to their Large Language Model (LLM) based suite of AI tools. This new type of generative AI tooling is based on the Chat GPT technology produced by Open AI (in which...
Microsoft, back in 2016, released the Microsoft Network Assessment Tool for doing a basic check of connection quality to Skype for Business Online / Teams / O365 (see Randy's blog for more info). This tool gives you a Pass/Fail based on four network metrics (Packet Loss, Round Trip Time, Jitter, Packet Reorder) for the 90th percentile average of the time you ran the tool. I decided that while the tool is pretty helpful it could do so much more, so with a bit of PowerShell and a splash of PowerBI I've hopefully transformed its output into something richer and far more useful. Come explore your network with me :)
Here is the concluding part of the OCS to Lync migration video series. You can find Part1, Part2...
At work & home we have quite a few snom 7xx Lync phones deployed. I’m quite a fan of the snom devices & their Lync implementation particularly around things like directory search etc… With the newer snom UC Firmware it...
I wanted help planning an upcoming trip to meet up with friends for the day, previously we had done this by car but I wanted to see if I could have a more relaxed journey going by train so I asking Copilot in Edge to help me...
I wanted help planning an upcoming trip to meet up with friends for the day, previously we had done this by car but I wanted to see if I could have a more relaxed journey going by train so I asking Copilot in Edge to help me...
Read MoreAll of the Copilots Copilot is the name Microsoft have given to their Large Language Model (LLM) based suite of AI tools. This new type of generative AI tooling is based on the Chat GPT technology produced by Open AI (in which...
Read MoreI wanted to start writing a word document acting as an explainer for Copilot Pro. I started with a blank page in Word and decided to take it up on the offer to help me generate some content. I laied out the titles and topic that...
Read MoreUsing Copilot Enterprise in a Teams call to summarise the data gave two different responses. The first was me free-form asking it to tell me what we’d talked about. This response seemed okay until the end where there...
Read MoreAsking Copilot Pro in Edge to help compare items, build a table and draw a conclusion.
Read MoreWhat is Busy on Busy in Microsoft Teams? Busy on Busy (sometimes written as busy-on-busy) is the name given to the feature in Microsoft Teams, where second incoming calls can be automatically rejected when a user is already in a...
Read MoreIn Microsoft Teams, a reaction is a way for users to respond quickly to a message with an emoji. This allows users to express their emotions or thoughts about a specific message without having to type out a response. Here we look at reactions and how to choose custom ones.
Read MoreCRM systems aren’t really my bag, but having spent the last year or so needing to be more familiar with SalesForce than I cared for (not a requirement in my new position!) I can sympathise with having information split across...
Read MoreMicrosoft has got a bit of a track record with some dodgy naming conventions in the past, and while overall, they seem to have got things pretty right with Teams there has long been a bit of a grey area around what term you...
Read MoreSo I need to come clean about what I’ve been up to during the last year or so… I’ve been quiet on the old socials and on the Teams scene for a little while now. You would be forgiven for thinking this was down to the fairly...
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