With the New Teams app being GA, organizations will eventually move from “Teams Classic” to the “New Teams” app. There are several reasons to make the switch, the biggest reason likely being the performance benefits. As I’ve been testing the new teams, I realized that custom backgrounds that were manually added, or added via remediations, […]
Deploy Custom Backgrounds to New Teams with Remediations Read More »
You may or may not know that there is a specific way to install Teams when using a VDI solution. AVD is what I end up working with in almost every situation, so this article is catered to AVD. However, this solution can be used for any VDI solution that uses the Teams machine-wide installer.
Keep Teams Machine-Wide-Installer Updated on AVD (or other VDI) with Intune Remediations Read More »
***A new post covering how to do this for New Teams is available here – Deploy Custom Backgrounds to New Teams with Remediations – SMBtotheCloud A client recently wanted to deploy organizational backgrounds to all Teams users. However, this is now a Teams Premium feature, which is an additional cost per user per month (Custom
One big blog post I’ve been working on has spawned a couple of other smaller ideas, including this. There have been times when a complex custom application or customization needs to be deployed to endpoints. For applications and certain customizations, Win32 apps are usually the best way. However, this solution can also be applied to
If you use Teams as a collaboration tool, you or your clients may have outside businesses they collaborate with. The traditional way to add outside users is to add them as guest users, and then give them permissions to your Teams/Channels. However, what if this is a long term project, you have numerous departments or
Intro This post was inspired by a question posted to the Modern Endpoint Management LinkedIn group about syncing/backing up users’ teams backgrounds to OneDrive. I work with Teams a lot, so this was something I was interested in solving. Teams backgrounds are stored in the user’s %appdata% folder. So, the challenge was to sync the
Sync Users’ Teams Backgrounds (or other files) with OneDrive using Intune Read More »
A couple months ago I posted how you can upload autopilot hardware hash files directly to blob storage from your target machines – https://smbtothecloud.com/upload-autopilot-hardware-hashes-to-azure-blob-storage/. I wanted to try automating as much of the remaining process as possible and found myself down a rabbit hole. This solution is probably overkill to gather hardware hash files, but
PowerShell + Data Factory + Logic App = Autopilot Hardware Hashes sent to you in Teams Read More »
Businesses are increasingly adopting Teams as their company telephony solution. At the same, many are also ditching on prem Active Directory and turning to Endpoint Manager with Azure AD for device and identity management. In many cases, implementing QoS won’t make a noticeable difference in audio/video performance. However, if the organization has a more complex
Use Intune to configure Teams QoS for Windows Clients (when you don’t have GPOs) Read More »