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How to configure Teams Direct Routing?

In FAQ
June 5, 2020
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The configuration process for Direct Routing is pretty tedious. Your PSTN Service – or Network Provider needs to connect with the Phone System within your Microsoft Tenant. You then enable users with the option of Calling in Teams. This requires assigning users with a phone system license. Configure their phone number and enable voicemail and voice. After that Voice routing must be configured which includes a Voice routing policy, Voice routes number patterns, and an online PSTN gateway and Voice routing with one PSTN usage. Lastly, you have to Apply the Number Translation Rules Policy to translate inbound and outbound numbers. A lot of manual work, which can be fully automated by a Teams specialized PSTN Network Provider like MachCloud.

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Work from home simplified with Unified Communications

In Business Communication, Digital Communications, UC, UDCaaS, Unified Communications
June 4, 2020
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Ever since Work from home has gained popularity, companies are looking for ways and tools to manage remote employees. In reality, it is very difficult to manage a large group of employees working remotely. However, in modern times, home working is made easy with unified communications. Here are a few things you need to keep things under control and make the work from home experience smooth and enjoyable for both the employees and the managers.

Collaboration is the key

With employees scattered at different parts of the city and working from home, you need to keep up the spirit of Office collaboration. Unified communication tools provide the necessary collaboration on sharing information, documents, and project files. Each business must be geared up with tools needed to enhance and promote collaboration.

Get one step ahead from just chat and calls

Businesses that had already invested in cloud communications or Unified communications are reaping the benefits now better than others in the market. With the right tools in place, you give that extra edge to your normal business communication that keeps the flow and prevents it from drying up. For digital collaboration, you must keep your systems updated with the minimum requirements for VoIP communication, video collaboration, virtual meetings, simple IM, chats, calls, the latest call recording systems, best inline notification mechanism, and much more.

Make your Employees feel connected

The bottom line is: While working from home, break the ice with all employees at least once every day. While you keep them engaged, they’ll start enjoying working from home and still stay productive. Since the Digital workplace is different from the usual workplace of brick and mortar, chances are that the employees soon get bored. To keep them feel connected, a state-of-the-art collaboration platform is needed where they do not feel being out-of-work.

Related: Will the legalization of “work from home” benefit the economy?

MachCloud offers robust Unified Communications Solutions

MachCloud is a Unified communication solutions provider that fits your business. With the flexibility in plans and pricing offered by the platform, there is something for every type of business for MachCloud. With MachCloud Digital Communication solutions, work from home becomes easy and exciting along with managing remote working employees. MachCloud brings more bangs for the bucks for your business with its cloud-based digital communication solutions like MachCloud Solution for Microsoft Teams®; Microsoft Teams powered Calling in Teams solutions, Teams Direct Routing, Cloud PBX, MachCloud, Microsoft 365 and many other migration services via a robust Control Panel.

Get on board with MachCloud digital communication solutions and take your business collaboration to the next level.

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Microsoft for healthcare features empowers healthcare providers via Teams

In Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams
May 18, 2020
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Microsoft for healthcare has gained popularity ever since the coronavirus pandemic has taken the rise. Microsoft Teams has benefitted business, academic industry, and other domains while organizations had to impose a work from home policy. On top of that, Microsoft Teams health has benefitted the healthcare industry with its novel solutions for collaborating amongst the healthcare providers.

New capabilities in Microsoft 365 empower healthcare professionals

As the number of confirmed cases increase in the coronavirus dashboard, experts from Microsoft sensed a few needs for better healthcare collaboration amongst the providers and thus has rolled in new capabilities to empower healthcare organizations amidst COVID-19 pandemic with Microsoft Teams health care solutions. Features like very urgent messaging, visit scheduling, contacting the on-shift clinician and other new features are part of Microsoft for healthcare and directly address core challenges that the healthcare providers are facing these days with messaging and health systems.

Empowering the frontline workers and the healthcare sector

To stay informed about the availability of beds and supplies that are running out like masks or ventilators, the experts at Microsoft has created a Healthcare Emergency Response Resource Tracking system. The Microsoft Teams health Emergency Resource Tracking Solution can now be used to manage emergency responses and frontline workers can collect the information via their devices especially with coronavirus dashboard. Then the healthcare leads can take quick decisions in real-time on where to divert the upcoming patients due to scare resources.

The messaging features allow care teams to securely coordinate patient care

Microsoft Teams health solutions include new messaging features including the following capabilities:

  • Secure communication: Teams is end-to-end encrypted and deploys the latest methods of security
  • Priority notifications: This alerts the recipient unless a response is received. The messages are sent every two minutes up to 20 minutes.
  • Message delegation: This allows receipt to delegate messages to another contact, while the original recipient is busy in surgery or unavailable.

Also read: Tips to keep communication services up during covid-19

Enhancements added to healthcare data interoperability

With the growing needs of data handling and digitizing patient data, one of the top priories is the interoperability of data. Microsoft this introduced emerging standards like FHIR in Microsoft for healthcare, to cater for this challenge. Microsoft Team’s health solutions include providing a hub to access digital health records of patients.

MachCloud – The all-in-one platform for collaboration according to modem day collab needs

MachCloud is a robust communication services provisioning platform that empowers businesses with all the tools needed for a modern-day collaboration experience. MachCloud offers MachCloud Solution for Microsoft Teams®, the Microsoft Teams oriented Calling solution with additional solutions like MachCloud, Calling in Teams, and Direct Routing via Microsoft Teams. With a variety of pricing and plans, MachCloud has got one for every type of business.

Head to MachCloud to experience modern-day collaboration with the latest tools and security.

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Will legalization of “work from home” benefit economy?

In Business Communication
May 4, 2020
3 Min Read
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After the COVID-19 outbreak, all major companies around the world had to enforce a work from home policy. The much hype created on the concept of work from home is now taking to a next level after German Labor and Social Affairs Minister announces that the country plans to present a bill on legalizing working from home as a basic workers’ right, encouraging remote workers throughout the country.

Work from home has been proven to be more productive

The proposal hasn’t come out of the blue.  The concept of Work from home has been popular form quite a while. With entrepreneurs having an option to hire remote working employees, there is a high chance of finding the best fit for a vacancy which wasn’t really possible with geographical restrictions at all times. Besides, it is a good way to cut costs on commuting to work, thereby, saving the worker time and bucks!

Technological advancements fuel speculations on telecommuting becoming a norm

Workplace has now been taken to a next level. Technology has encouraged workers and entrepreneurs to ditch brick and mortar and adopt a virtual workplace that is a workplace of the future in a cost—effective manner.  Many collaborative tools and digital communication services have emerged as essential tools to run any type of business, online or otherwise. Services from Microsoft have been very effective in this domain with products like Teams, Yammer, SharePoint and collaboration between these via Microsoft 365 and much more. It wouldn’t be wrong to state that if such a bill on workers’ right to work from home is passed, technology would prove this decision to be a better one for the benefit of work force and the overall economy.

ALSO READ: Tips to continue process of effective business communication during coronavirus crisis

MachCloud – the all-in-one communication platform for remote workers

MachCloud is equipped with state-of-the-art tools to assist remote workers. The robust platform provides a unique collaboration solutions and communication services that is not only pocket-friendly, but also effective for Team work. MachCloud offers services offered by Microsoft Teams for collaboration with other Microsoft 365 tools for added productive. With MachCloud, employees working from home experience the exact collaborative environment needed for office-based communication. Whether you are Team Lead or any other employee, you can effectively communicate with staff and collaborate on Project files, documents with added features for collaborations like chats, IM, voice notes, @mentions, video conferencing and Calling in Teams.

Get MachCloud for a best in line remote working experience with MachCloud’s wide variety of products to facilitate telecommuting.

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Tips to keep communication services up during COVID-19

In Business Communication, Microsoft Teams
April 29, 2020
3 Min Read
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During the COVID-19 pandemic crises these days, the communication services are playing an active role in bringing together employees and continuing the flow of business. Workers have now found creative ways to use Microsoft Teams to keep the employee engagement intact, because after all, working from home isn’t easy for those who aren’t used to it. To keep the work spirit alive, IT pros at MachCloud have shown many lucrative benefits that clears customer concerns on why use Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Team’s commitment to customers

MachCloud is committed to serve its customers with best possible options during the high demand of collaboration amidst work from home requirements this lockdown season. The rich communication platform offers various solutions like Microsoft Teams Direct Routing solution for its customers. Teams is available for Individuals as well as for IT professionals. Individuals are befitting from Teams for e-learning and education based online activities these days. IT pros are dependent on Teams for a secured business communication since Microsoft provides its Direct Routing services in their own systems equipped with best in line security standards. Microsoft has shown commitment to its customers by providing Teams collaboration features for IT business and other business domains.

5 creative ways to use Microsoft Teams

Amidst the pandemic situation, IT pros have found creative ways to use Microsoft Teams. Here is a compilation of 5 best ways how MS Teams can be used as an effective tool for communication services:

  1. Keep communication frequent: For the Team leads, Greet everyone every day. Or at least every other day. It makes the employees stay in the loop.
  2. Share Teams Tips: Provide guidance to employees on daily basis to work on communication tools faster like “Get work done fast with slash commands”
  3. Personalize the tools: Get a personalized view to feel comfortable with the interface.
  4. Title each chat: Since there must be many chats going on simultaneously, it is always a good idea to Title each chat.
  5. Structure to your conversations: plus, bookmark the important bits so you don’t have to follow the entire conversation each time.

MachCloud – One Stop Solution to cater for modern business collaboration needs

MachCloud offers various solutions for collaboration and a variety of communication services all in one place. With pocket-friendly calling plans, MachCloud caters for digital business communication needs with its solutions like MachCloud Solution for Microsoft Teams® and MachCloud®. With MachCloud, you can stay in control of the communication platform and bring more bangs for your bucks to your business.

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Digital Communication Advantages | MachCloud

In Digital Communications
April 22, 2020
3 Min Read
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In the modern era, all cloud based businesses are aware of digital communication advantages. There is a boon in the digital communication market with various communication services coming up and providing competitive cloud communication platforms. In the midst of this, MachCloud has emerged as an all-in-one and unique communication platform.

The need for scalability in modern business

Scalability doesn’t only require infrastructure uplifting, it also requires an uplifting of the collaboration platform. Modern digital communication services provide scalability options to best fit in the market. In the midst of it, MachCloud offers pocket-friendly pricing and plans that provides a competitive edge to the customers and brings more bang for the bucks. With uncertain market trends these days due to COVID-19 crises worldwide, MachCloud offers scalability, both up or down, to its customers. This ensures smooth business operations in a collaborative manner.

Digital Communication and Microsoft Teams Direct Routing solutions

Since Skype is dead, like almost dead, Microsoft Teams is the next big thing in the domain of digital communications. Teams provide the collaboration needed for modern business communications amongst project teams. Microsoft Team is a promising tool that is going to stay for the next many years. MachCloud offers Digital communication services with Microsoft Teams Direct Routing and Calling in Teams Solutions.

MachCloud’s MachCloud Solution for Microsoft Teams® solution is designed specifically for companies adopting Microsoft Teams. With Direct Routing, customers can make calls worldwide in the Telephony network, via Microsoft Teams. MachCloud offers different pricing plans.

Providing state-of-the-art infrastructure for smooth communication

MachCloud® is another solution designed to meet the current Collaboration trends. It is easily deployable and provides with the facility of an enterprise phone system and makes you stay ahead of the curve. Features like call recording, one-to-one dialogs, reporting, chats, messaging and video call conferencing are few of the many features that are offered at MachCloud for better collaboration. MachCloud Cloud PBX provides latest Enterprise standards in terms of security and reliability with best in line PBX functionality.

Experience excellent call security to combat cyber attacks

In the modern world, security is a big concern for digital communication. MachCloud provides strong protection and security by end-to-end call encryption in Microsoft Teams. This makes businesses adopt Microsoft Teams without any security concern. Multi-factor authentication is also deployed for added security.

In a nutshell, MachCloud is equipped with all the tools necessary for a robust and reliable digital communication platform. The modern communication needs are diverse. MachCloud caters for all types of organizational communication from SME’s to large enterprises.

Head to MachCloud for a smooth and secured digital communication service delivery.

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Microsoft Teams Security Facilitates Business Domain

In Business Communication
April 20, 2020
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Microsoft Teams Security

Microsoft Teams security continues to remain on top of all others during this pandemic crisis. Video conferencing for official purpose is not new in the business domain. However, with the rise of COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a great increase in remote workers around the world, since businesses have opted for virtual offices to practice social distancing. The modern digital collaboration tools have, thus, become the focus of business and academic industry.

Amidst this pandemic and health crises in the world, there has been seen a record rise in daily traffic. One service reported a 535% increase in online traffic. However, with the irises in digital collaboration, privacy and cyber security remain one of the top issues companies have to face in these pandemic crises. Some services have, unfortunately, fallen prey to the increased intensity of cyber crimes and thus lost many clients’ trust. However, Microsoft Teams Security continues to win Microsoft Teams customers’ hearts.

Microsoft Teams security provides top-notch security features to its customers

In the wake of this pandemic, Microsoft Teams has emerged as popular tools where academic and business industry has greatly benefited from it. It has facilitated companies with top-notch collaboration tools like video conferencing, call conferencing, chats, calls and simple messaging. Microsoft Teams is the state-of-the-art digital communication platform that has satisfied customers with all the privacy and security concerns.

Two-factor authentication – 2FA makes Microsoft Teams security reliable

Microsoft offers end-to-end encryption in their own domain (not in telephony domain outside Direct Routing) as main feature of Microsoft Teams security to all of its video conferences and calls. In this way, the customers can easily communicate without any intrusion or eavesdropping within the call or video conference. Microsoft Teams provides a rich set of privacy rules that the platform adheres to. All the data shared within the conference is protected with latest encryption mechanism.

Microsoft further enhances Teams security by enabling two factor authentications that makes Teams reliable and secure from outside threats. In this way, all the business conversation and information sharing remain private between employees. Privacy and security are the focused factors in Teams.

Data is encrypted while at rest and in transit making data sharing secure and reliable. Teams even makes use of AI via chat boxes during meetings to combat any cyber bullying and other harassment behaviors.

ALSO READ: Unleash the power of Microsoft Teams with an existing PBX telephone system

MachCloud – The robust platform for Calling in Teams Solutions

MachCloud is an all-in-one digital communication platform that is equipped with all the modern collaboration tools of today. It offers Calling in Teams solution. Its product, MachCloud Solution for Microsoft Teams®, provides simple and reliable solutions for cloud communication for Microsoft Teams. MachCloud Solution for Microsoft Teams® is a fully automated service for end-to-end encrypted calling in Microsoft Teams through Direct Routing.

Head to MachCloud to unleash the power of Microsoft Teams with a modern approach.

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Microsoft 365 | Rebranding Office 365 business plans

In Microsoft 365
April 17, 2020
3 Min Read
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The news is huge! Microsoft has decided to rebrand Office 365 business plans and name them on Microsoft 365 context, from April 21st, 2020. A few years ago when Microsoft 365 was introduced, its sole purpose was to provide a subscription bundle of Windows 10, Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility + Security. However, recently, Microsoft made an announcement that the tech giant has decided to rebrand a few subscription plans, and introduced a few new plans.

Which plans are affected by this M365 name change?

The flowing plans are affected by this announcement:

  • Office 365 Business and Office 365 Pro Plus

Both of these will be called Microsoft 365 Apps starting 21st April, 2020. To distinguish between the two, Microsoft will continue using “for business” and “for enterprise” as labels

  • Office 365 Business Premium

This will be rebranded Microsoft 365 Business Standard and all occurrences in documentation must be changed accordingly.

  • Office 365 Business Essentials

This plan will now be called as Microsoft 365 Business Basic from 21st April, 2020.

  • Microsoft 365 Business

Even though it is not a part of Office 365 family, Microsoft has announced this would be rebranded as Microsoft 365 Business Premium.

Which plans remain unchanged?

Other than the plans mentioned above, most plans are unaffected by the name change announcement. To give you a clear view you about whether your subscription plan is rebranded or not, take a look at the following list and find it yourself. The following plans have remained unchanged.

Office 365 for Government

  • Office 365 G1
  • Office 365 G3
  • Office 365 G5

Office 365 for Enterprise

  • Office 365 E1
  • Office 365 E3
  • Office 365 E5

Office 365 for Education

  • Office 365 A1
  • Office 365 A3
  • Office 365 A5

Office 365 for First line

  • Office 365 F1

The motivation behind rebranding

The Microsoft officials mentioned in the blogpost, where they announced the rebranding news, that the idea of rebranding is to indicate that Office 365 is not just Word, Excel and PowerPoint that half of the world still believes. Office 365 has grown a lot in the past years with products like Teams, Forms, Stream, and Planner and the name Microsoft 365 is a true depiction of what Office has evolved into, over the years. The officials confirmed that there won’t be any changes for now in price, features or the plans.

MachCloud – the favorite Microsoft 365 Provider for Resellers

If you are in search for a Platform to offer best in line Microsoft 365, look no further. MachCloud offers the best Reselling opportunity for all Office 365 resellers in the market. With better profit margins and a high reliability of services, MachCloud has become the favorite platform for Resellers. It offers basic plans like business plans (which include Business Basic, Business Apps, Business Standard and Business Premium), enterprise plans (which include Enterprise E1, Enterprise ProPlus and Enterprise E3) as well as Add-ons like Business Voice, Phone System and Business Apps. With the addition of delivering telephony services you offer a complete package, all from the MachCloud Portal.

Stay ahead of the curve and get your hands on MachCloud for a smooth and profitable service delivery to your customers.

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Planning for Skype to Teams migration? Here’s the guide

In Business Communication
April 9, 2020
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Many companies are still waiting for the deadline defines for Skype to Teams migration to approach. While it may feel tempting to wait till the end and act promptly, while the announcement is about to be made that Microsoft Teams replaces Skype for Business, it is never a good idea from business strategic management perspective. If you still haven’t performed the Skype to Teams migration, here are 5 major tips to ease your process of Skype to Teams Migration:

  1. Go for Automated Up gradation

Organizations that are small and not equipped with hybrid or on-premises setup are favored by Microsoft. Microsoft offers those organizations automated up gradations for Office 365 tenant. This is particularly fruitful since SMEs don’t necessarily have a lot of IT experts on board.

  1. Focus on the Team

In order to perform Skype to Teams migration, the rollout Team at your end would have to be extended beyond just IT personnel and include stakeholders and executive sponsor that keep track of the training and rollout milestones.

  1. There are built-in upgrade options

The fact is: “Microsoft Teams comes with built-in upgrade options and interoperability”. This is for every business whether utilizing Skype for Business Server on-premises, Skype for Business Online, a hybrid configuration, or even companies having an enterprise voice plan.

  1. Choose an upgrade path

There are two modes for up gradation: Islands mode, Skype for Business with Teams Collab” mode and Teams only mode.

  • Islands mode: In this mode, you get the option of overlapping capabilities while you phase in the new features and eventually phase out Skype for Business features that your users and clients are so used to working with.
  • Skype for Business with Teams Collab mode: This is called the “meeting first approach” in which you are free to select the chosen capabilities.
  • Teams only mode: In this mode, all your calls are managed via Teams. In addition to this, your PSTN is configured well with Direct Routing.

  1. Discover your mode

Out of the many modes Microsoft Provides, there is an option to mix and match.

Either you can set a mode organization-wide or set it for specific users. This can be set in the Teams Admin Center. In this way, you can work with overlapping capabilities for a subset of users within the organization, while employing Teams only for the rest of the organization. So make the move before Microsoft Teams replaces Skype for business.

ALSO READ: Unleash the power of Microsoft Teams with an existing PBX Telephone System

MachCloud – the one-stop cloud communication platform for your business

MachCloud is an all-in-one digital communication platform that has the potential to take your business communication to the next level. With Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, MachCloud offers easy Calling via Teams with your existing PBX without the need of a SCB. With MachCloud, you can get pocket friendly calling plans that are suitable for every business. Solutions like MachCloud Solution for Microsoft Teams and MachCloud make MachCloud a favorite Cloud communications provider in the industry.

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Digital Office: The Future Workplace is Already Here

In Digital Communications
March 25, 2020
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With the era of cloud computing, core cloud technologies have revolutionized digital workplace of today, digital communication and how businesses operate in real world. Workspaces have now changed a lot in the past few years. Modern workspaces are flexible, manageable and not bound within the bounds of the office building.

The adaptable nature of modern workspace increases productivity

Gone are the days when the workspaces were tied to nine to five working hours in the limited office space. Today, office space has been redefined, thanks to the latest technologies on board that have given rise to digital workplace and with implementation of digital communication. With the help of latest IT adaptive tools, employees are not tied to the workspace and thus can work form anywhere. This is one reason why “work from home” employees are increasing and after homes, cafés are the second best and popular locations to work from.

Collaboration is in the genes of the new generation

The most recent generation which is working in the industry now focuses on Time, frequency and speed. In order to stay ahead of the curve, the young IT experts always tend to find ways to speed up communication, increase work productivity and keep track of the future requirements in business. A normal practice of the Generation Z (born between 1980 to 2010s) is to communicate through digital means and adapt to digital communication solutions well. This is particularly why there are multiple Communication platforms out there with increased collaboration that caters for the increase in business communication needs of this generation.

The race to stay focused towards the future vision

The digital office spaces of today hold a wide variety of opportunities that are of most interest for the new generation of IT personnel.  Collaboration tools and communitarian infrastructure is both the key to a modern workspace that is enjoyable by the workers of today. Not only they require integrated tools, the modern requirements of workspace also include top notch infrastructure that keeps the business ahead of the curve.

MachCloud – The all-in-one platform to cater for modern workspace needs

MachCloud is on such integrated communication platform that takes all the modern workspace requirements into account. With MachCloud, companies can mix different technologies while still communicate effectively and seamlessly through the workspace. The experts at MachCloud understand the pressures of today’s workspace and thus provide all the support needed for effective digital workspace communication.  The solutions and services provided by MachCloud makes you in control of your digital workspace communication and cater for all business and management needs of today.

MachCloud is flexible, agile and easily adaptable to any business niche. With MachCloud, there is no need to disrupt the existing systems you are on. In fact, the existing systems, phone numbers and technologies can continue with newer systems replacing them in real-time.

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