UCStatus Podcast

In Episode 66 of the UCStatus Podcast, Randy Chapman, Mark Vale, and Shawn Harry discuss numerous updates following Enterprise Connect 2023. Key topics include new features for Microsoft Teams Rooms, enhanced management capabilities via the Pro Management Portal, and the introduction of face and speaker recognition on various devices.

In Episode 65 of the UCStatus Podcast, hosts Randy, Mark, and Shawn welcome special guest Tom Arbuthnot from Empowering Cloud for a fluid discussion on Teams and M365, reflecting on past changes and future predictions.

UCStatus Podcast Ignite 2024 special. All the latest Teams and Teamd Rooms news from Microsoft Ignite 2024

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 63 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week was again a random list of stuff I found interesting in the Message centre and roadmap for Teams. Here’s the list Behind the scenes sneak peak I […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 62 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week was a random list of stuff I found interesting in the Message centre and roadmap for Teams. Here’s the list At this point the Teams client decided […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 61 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we started where we left off last time with Microsoft Places. Plus I put together a list of stuff from the Message Centre. Very good discussion I […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 60 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we had a short list items I plucked from the what’s new from InfoComm and Build blog posts, and we managed to talk for 25 minutes about […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 59 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). Following on from the recent Enterprise Connect show in Orlando there was a ton of Teams news announced. Live on Stage during the keynote and on tthe Microsoft stand. […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 58 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). Following on from the recent Enterprise Connect show in Orlando there was a ton of Teams news announced. Live on Stage during the keynote and on tthe Microsoft stand. […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 57 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about the list of revelations from a live fireside chat with Ilya Bukshteyn and Caroline Stanford, Jimmy Vaughan and Michel Bouman filmed at ISE. Then […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 56 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we finally do our Ignite special. A bit late but we had to move the recording 4 times to get here. Better late than never. And we […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 55 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about the latest Teams news from the Message Centre and Roadmap. Here’s the list Be sure to catch Microsoft Ignite starting next week. There will […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 54 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat with Mark about his day job at Callroute. Callroute is a small company in the south of England who started with a platform to deliver […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 53 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about some of the most recent news for Teams Rooms and Teams Phone. I pulled some stuff from the Message Centre, What’s new in Teams […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 52 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about Teams Telephony, Teams Phone, Teams Calling and Voice stuff. Yes I know they are all the same but I wanted to try to make […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 51 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about a long list of news and new stuff from the Microsoft 365 Message Centre. If you didn’t know, that’s a great source of news. The Roadmap serves […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 50 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Mark Vale (@markvale83) talking about Commsverse 2023 which is just around the corner on 21st and 22nd of June (as I write this, it is week after next). This year will be our biggest yet. […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 49 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about the Teams Premium licensing and the features inside. The list of features in Premium are broken down into 5 separate categories. And therein, 5 […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 48 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we talk about a couple of changes for Teams Phone and some really big changes for Teams Rooms. The list: Microsoft Teams Phone Stuff Microsoft Teams Rooms […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 47 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week back to basics. Shawn and I have no agenda or list to cover. We just talk for 40 minutes about Teams stuff. The list: As always we had a lot […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 46 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@markvale83). This week we chat about what we thought was interesting from the recent Ignite conference. The list We also briefly mentioned a few things I found in the roadmap, […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 45 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about a new licenses Microsoft announced this week for Microsoft Teams Rooms. There are two new licenses. These licences replace the existing Standard and Premium licenses with immediate […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 44 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@markvale83). This week we chat about a new license Microsoft snuk in recently for a Pay-as-you-go Calling Plan for Teams. There are two versions of the license. One thing […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 43 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@markvale83). This week we chat about a long list of the Microsoft Teams features we found interesting since the last time we recorded back in May. Sorry for the […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 42 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@markvale83). This week we chat with John Stewart-Murray, pre-sales consultant from AudioCodes UK. If you’ve been with us since the beginning you’ll remember we had John on the Podcast a […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 41 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@markvale83). This week our chat is focused on Microsoft Teams Rooms. We talk about Public Preview for MTR For details on how to enable Public Preview – Click Here […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 40 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@markvale83). This week we chat about a new feature that is rolling out now to the Microsoft Teams desktop client. That is the ability to cast your screen, an […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 39 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@markvale83). This week we chat about some of the Microsoft Teams announcements from the very recent Enterprise Connect show in Orlando. We talk about the show at a high […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 38 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we take a serious look at the lifespan and lifecycle for Teams devices such as phones and room systems that run the Android operating system. These include Teams desk phones […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 37 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Mark Vale (@MarkVale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat about some of the big news to close out 2021. SIP Gateway Generally Available Azure Communications Service Microsoft Teams Interop Generally Available Real-Time Call […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 36 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Mark Vale (@MarkVale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week our chat follows hot on the heels of the recent Microsoft Ignite conference, November 2nd to 4th 2021. If you didn’t attend any of the sessions […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 35 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Mark Vale (@MarkVale83) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week our chat follows a welcome announcement that Microsoft Teams would be coming to Portal by Facebook. We found out from a Tweet sent by UCStatus guest […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 34 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Mark Vale (@MarkVale83) and this week we are joined by a very special guest, Martin Boam (@martinboam). This week we change gears and talk about our upcoming Microsoft Teams conference, Commsverse. Commsverse is a community […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 33 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@MarkVale83) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and this week we are joined by a very special guest, Tom Arbuthnot (@tomarbuthnot). This week we chat about communications in the consumer space. As Microsoft welcomes Manik Gupta […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 32 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and this week we talk about device management for the vast ecosystem of Microsoft Teams Devices. We talk over what’s available from several of the vendors, why you need a management solution […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 31 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we take a look at some interesting things from the recent What’s new and some stuff that appeared in the Teams Roadmap. Some of the topics we […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 30 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we say goodbye to Skype for Business Online now that it’s basically gone. We discuss reasons you might want to stay on Skype for Business Server, what […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 29 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we discuss the upcoming demise (31 July 2021) of Skype for Business Online, what might happen and what you should do to prepare. We also talk at […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 28 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). This week we chat with John Stewart-Murray, pre-sales consultant from AudioCodes UK and dive into what’s new with AudioCodes and Microsoft Teams. If you’ve been with us since the beginning […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 27 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). And a special guest, all the way from Xiamen, China, Karl Liu from Yealink. Yealink is one of those vendors that is happy to try their hand at anything […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 26 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). Following this years’ Microsoft Ignite conference, we decided there was so much Microsoft Teams news that we needed to do at least one podcast episode to talk it all […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 25 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale83) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry). Hot on the heels of Microsoft Ignite, we decided there was so much Microsoft Teams news that we needed to do at least one podcast episode to talk it […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 24 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Mark Vale (@markvale83). A quick congratulations is in order for Mark as he’s been reawarded as a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps & Services. Very well deserved for all he does for teh Teams community […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 23 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) & Mark Vale (@markvale83) are joined by very special guests Ilya Bukshteyn (@ilyabu) and Greg Baribault (@gregbari) from Microsoft. In this episode we chat with the people responsible for room devices for Microsoft […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 22 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman) & Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) are joined by very special guests Ilya Bukshteyn (@ilyabu) and Sandhya Rao (@sandhyarrao) from Microsoft. In this episode we chat with the people responsible for personal devices for Microsoft Teams. It seems […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 21 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@markvale83). In our first episode of 2021 we take a look at some of the recent news and features in Teams. Including: Breakout rooms End of meeting notifications The new […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 20 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@markvale83). Despite a challenging and busy year, we managed to bring you 20 episodes in 2020. We take a look at how much Teams has changed in the last year […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 19 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@markvale83). This week we take a look at what’s new and upcoming for Teams in December 2020. As always, there is a lot of stuff that’s new and just about […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 18 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@unifiedvale). This week we take a slight departure and talk, not about Teams specifically or a feature of Teams. But about working from home, with Teams. And how the mindset […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 17 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@unifiedvale). This week we chat about some more of the latest announcements from Microsoft for Teams. Not an Ignite special (yet) but just some items we thought warranted further discussion. […]

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Welcome to Episode 16 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Shawn Harry (@shawnharry) and Mark Vale (@unifiedvale). This week we chat about some of the latest announcements from Microsoft for Teams. Not a what’s new, but a cherry picked list of things we found interesting and […]