James Arber
UC Mad Scientist and Microsoft Teams MVP
Melbourne, Australia
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James is a Microsoft MVP specializing in Skype for Business & Microsoft Teams. Consultanting for Telstra Purple with over 10 years of experience designing, implementing and supporting Skype for Business, Teams, Office 365 and on-premise telephony and UC solutions for SME’s and government.
He has a wide range of experience across both on-premise, and cloud, including Skype for Business, Exchange, Meeting room solutions and user endpoints.
During his spare time, he's usually balancing between his 4 kids, Writing PowerShell, Playing Destiny, Working on cars or just being a Mad Scientist
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The Inner workings of QoS and Teams
In this session by Microsoft and Cisco certified, Teams Mad Scientist and MVP James Arber
We will be going into the ins and outs of why you need QoS and what it actually does.
Delving into concepts such as DSCP, CoS, ToS, and 802.11q frame tagging and why it’s not quite as simple as you think.
We will take an in-depth look at how your traffic is marked and how you need to set up your network for the best results using Teams and why the old adage of a “Phone VLAN” is dead.
This is a moderately technical session designed to help Office365 administrators understand networking in more detail, attendees are expected to have a basic understanding of IP Networking.
Go Deep into Direct Routing with the UC Mad Scientist
Dive into inner workings of Direct Routing in Office 365 for Microsoft Teams and how it can co-exist with options like Microsoft Calling, Telstra Calling for Office365, and Skype for Business on prem or even interop with a legacy PABX.
We will be talking Codecs, Sip Configs, Tenant Dial Plans, user policies and regex!
Note: this is a deep session, we will have packet captures, Fiddler and PowerShell open, if you're after an overview on what Direct Routing is and how to get started check out Damien Margaritis' session "Cloud Voice with Microsoft Teams"
Building a smart Teams Bot, With no code!
In this session come on a journey with UcMadScientist as he builds a cognitive bot to answer FAQ's and pull data from a wiki, without needing any coding skills or Power Apps. Using free Azure resources see how we can easily read, understand and integrate this data into a variety of platforms including a simple Teams connector.
We then take it a step further by customizing responses and even publishing the bot as an app.
Virtual Meetings are not free. Collaboration is cheaper.
Do you suffer from meeting burnout? Are you in meetings where you stay muted 95% of the time?
With the rapid adoption of platforms like Microsoft Teams during the pandemic, it's easier than ever to call a meeting to discuss work, delegate tasks or even get status updates.
But what if I told you this might be hurting your productivity rather than improving it?
Learn how we can use built-in apps in Microsoft Teams to accomplish common meeting tasks, turning 30-minute catchup sessions into 5-minute updates.
Let fresh users get context on an ongoing topic without having to repeat yourself and consume more time, with threaded conversations.
Delegate tasks, check project dependencies, see where things are headed all without any special code, or 3rd party apps.
If you have Teams, you have the tools to make unnecessary meetings go away.
James Arber
UC Mad Scientist and Microsoft Teams MVP
Melbourne, Australia
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