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What's New In Microsoft Teams?

The recent Microsoft Inspire 2023 event unveiled a ton of exciting updates and enhancements for Microsoft Teams. As Microsoft rolls out these new features, the need for performance monitoring becomes ever more essential – but we’ll get to that in a bit. First off, let’s get started with what some of the exciting new changes are for Teams, and how they can help businesses everywhere.

UNUM's Success Story with Vantage DX For Teams Meeting Rooms

As a distributed global organization with a hybrid workforce, UNUM, a Fortune 500 insurance company, faced unique technological challenges in managing its Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTRs). Research shows that approximately 3% of Microsoft Teams calls are poor or fail each day, with the vast majority caused by IT issues.

The Hidden Problem Draining Productivity

Discover the alarming truth: over 80% of users choose to suffer in silence, never reporting the tech issues they encounter. Meanwhile, many companies rely on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, assuming they have a watchful eye on their systems. However, a critical blind spot persists, particularly when it comes to detecting and alerting you about problems lurking within Microsoft 365’s cloud-based applications.

Are you Ready For Microsoft Teams Premium?

Microsoft Teams Premium is here, with many of its new features now live and already adding benefits to businesses everywhere. Is it something you’re thinking about investing in? If it is, here’s the lowdown on some of the key additions and what they really mean for your organization.

IT Teams Flying Blind During Microsoft Outage

On June 5th, Microsoft experienced an outage for many of their Microsoft 365 services including: Outlook on the web, Teams, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online due to a service update. When Microsoft service availability goes down the scramble is on for IT teams to quickly pinpoint the issue to mitigate productivity roadblocks for their users and this outage was no different.

Why You Should Care About Microsoft Teams Monitoring

With the rapid growth of hybrid work, the need for collaboration tools that centralize audio, video, chat and documents have never been more critical. Most departments in your organization use Microsoft Teams to conduct business; VIPs conducting executive meetings in your Teams Meeting Rooms, Sales organizing calls and meetings with their prospects, Customer support teams contacting your customers and scheduling potential meetings to help them, and R&D organizing their meetings.

Is Teams The Be All & End All Of The Modern Workplace?

Teams has become more than just a handy platform to send the odd chat message or drop documents over to a colleague. In fact, it’s become fundamental to the way organizations across the world operate. But does it tick every box for modern businesses? Nearly, yes.

Using Practical Alerting to Stay on Top of Teams Call Quality - Part 2

Running your business using Teams isn’t without its challenges. We already did a post here about some of the Microsoft Teams alerts IT teams need to be alerted to sooner rather than later. But, because of how complex large Teams setups are, we’ve got a few more to add to the collection. Today, we’re focusing on the Microsoft-specific challenges you might face.

Using Practical Alerting to Stay on Top of Teams Call Quality - Part 1

In the modern workplace, more and more organizations are relying on tools like Microsoft Teams to stay connected and productive. However, with the rising usage of these tools comes the potential for technical difficulties that can impact call quality and overall performance. This can be frustrating for teams trying to get work done, but there are ways to stay on top of these challenges.

Five Free Tools to Monitor Microsoft Teams Performance

Microsoft Teams has become a popular platform for remote communication and collaboration, especially since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. As more and more businesses rely on Microsoft Teams to communicate and work together, it’s crucial to ensure that the platform is performing optimally and to measure and improve Microsoft Teams performance. Fortunately, there are free tools available to help you monitor the performance of Microsoft Teams.