Microsoft Teams Direct Routing is the latest in connecting your SIP trunk provider but how about leveraging the Microsoft cloud and deploy your Session Boarder Controller (SBC) into Azure.

Audiocodes are one of many SBC providers using Azure to provide an additional options with your approach to moving to Microsoft Teams.  If your a consultant deploying AudioCodes Mediant VE SBC for Microsoft Azure, this process couldnt be any easier with using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates which can be developed to adapt to any customer requirements.

If you have a bit of Azure knowledge in deploying new resources the below image will not be to difficult understand.

But if this is the first time you’ve looked deploying a resource in Azure, I highly recommend looking at creating a template and use Visual Studio. This will allow you to make modification in the code and learn how ARM templates work.

How much does the Audiocodes Virtual Machine cost?

The below tables is based on today costing as of 12 November 2018 and these prices may change.

Microsoft Teams Direct Routing will only get bigger as time goes on and you can expect the number of supported SIP sessions to increase (expected 6000 sessions in Q1 2019). It is also worth noting that Audiocodes also offer a multi tenant SBC so if you are a service provider, you can house multi customers on a single SBC appliance.

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Author – Blogabout.Cloud

Microsoft Teams now supports dynamic groups but what does this mean? Dynamic groups are an Azure AD Premium (P1) feature that allows group membership to be automatically tied to AD attributes (i.e. users with a location of ‘London, New York or Seattle’) that will continuously sync as the membership changes over time. Dynamic group membership reduces the administrative overhead of adding and removing users.

Which is great for IT Administrator across the group.

How to create a dynamic group

Please follow the steps from here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/groups-create-rule

Once you have created the group, every assigned member will receive an email stating they have joined the defined group

We already have a group (Office or Security) and would like to change its membership type to “Dynamic”

Of course you can do this from the Azure AD admin center. Please follow the steps from here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/groups-change-type

How do create a Microsoft Team with a Dynamic Group

Launch Microsoft Teams and click “Join or create a team”

Click “Create a team from an existing Office 365 Group”

Select the dynamic group you are an owner of and the group name will become the Team name.

Command Questions

Does this support syncing Security Groups (SGs)?

No, dynamic membership groups are different from SG/DL

How long does the dynamic group changes take to reflect in Teams?

This can take up to 2 hours after membership changes are reflected in Azure portal.

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Author – Blogabout.Cloud