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5 Things You Need to Know Before Making the Move to Microsoft Teams Phone

Microsoft Teams Phone is a powerful collaboration and communication tool, making the use of Teams easier and more flexible than ever. Many businesses want to grab the benefits of an easy-to-manage platform that flexibly supports the complexities of their existing operations, incorporating PSTN calling. But before you dive in, what are the key things you should know?

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Microsoft SCOM for Office 365 Monitoring? There Is a Better Alternative.

Gartner predicts that spending on public cloud services will rise to 21% in 2023. Most organizations today support fully remote operations and use SaaS services from the cloud. But is your Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) tool suitable for monitoring mission-critical services like Microsoft 365? Don't get us wrong - SCOM is a comprehensive monitoring tool for servers, infrastructure, and apps such as Exchange and SQL. However, the recently released Microsoft SCOM Management Pack for monitoring Microsoft 365 lacks clout.

How Microsoft Has Further Developed the Microsoft Teams Environment

Over the past three years, the Microsoft Teams environment has become the de facto voice communication tool for a large percentage of organizations. But with many companies having implemented their Teams setup rapidly in the face of a dramatically changing business setting, some IT teams have been struggling to know how to get the most out of their Teams environment.

S2E4: How to integrate ServiceDesk Plus Cloud with Microsoft 365 - Masterclass 2022

Learn how to deliver unified service management from your virtual workspace by integrating ServiceDesk Plus with the Microsoft environment. Elevate user experience by facilitating collaboration, multiplying touchpoints with your service desk, managing requests, tracking technician availability and more.

S2E4: Integrating ServiceDesk Plus with Microsoft 365 ecosystem - Masterclass 2022

Learn how you can enable enterprise service desks to manage tickets and other business functions from a single console. Integrate ServiceDesk Plus with the Microsoft ecosystem to perform various ticket actions and resolve them swiftly. Watch related videos Follow us on social.

How IT Departments Can Manage the Infrastructure to Boost Microsoft Teams Call Quality

The person speaking to you can only hear a sort of robot voice and the dreaded pixilation of your face on a video chat has descended on your important call with your team or, much, much worse, with a VIP client – does panic set in? Well, if your IT team doesn’t have a good way to boost Teams call quality then yes. Inconsistent Teams call quality is a problem plaguing businesses in every sector, and it’s an issue that can have a real negative impact on an organization.

Delivering a Successful Microsoft Teams User Experience - Microsoft MVP, Nick Cavalancia

Think delivering Microsoft Teams service to your users is simple? Microsoft MVP Nick Cavalancia lists all of the factors at play in delivering a successful Teams user experience. Spoiler alert: most of them have nothing to do with Microsoft.

Hidden Losses: The ROI of Insight into Microsoft Teams User Experience

If your business relies on Microsoft Teams to keep employees connected and productive, it is highly likely that some portion of your user base is experiencing problems such as delay or failed calls every day. If this is a surprise to you, you may be wondering what the impact of this is on your business. In the second edition of our blog series, we look at how to measure the impact of these undetected issues, and the Microsoft Teams ROI of implementing solutions to detect them more proactively.

Martello Garners Top Marks for Proactive Microsoft Teams Monitoring Tool

The abrupt transition to remote work that has occurred over the past few years has caused Microsoft Teams to become an indispensable application for many companies. As such, it is absolutely imperative to make sure that Teams users have a good experience, particularly with regard to call quality. Herein lies the problem. Although Microsoft has provided some rudimentary tools that can be used for user experience monitoring, those integrated tools are inadequate for enterprise use.

Looking Below the Surface to Understand the Microsoft Teams User Experience

Microsoft Teams has become a critical communication and collaboration tool for thousands of enterprises around the world. Teams is keeping today’s hybrid workforce connected and productive through video and voice calls, chat and connectivity to other Microsoft 365 applications like Outlook and SharePoint.