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May 21, 2004

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chrome for meetings is legit good which is why it will probably be abandoned

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*person joins using laptop instead of phone but has wrong audio input source selected so its quiet and full of feedback all at the same time*

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all that stuff works together if you use lync and polycom realconnect, which is good

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most of the office 365 suite outside of the windows applications is either work in progress in a really obvious way, or clearly abandoned

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May 21, 2004

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skype for business is such a loving dumb name

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*dials into conferencing provider with a cheap analogue desk telephone that happens to have a speakerphone feature*

"wow the quality of this service sure is bad!!!"

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im joining a conference call later via the skype for business pstn cloud pbx preview. gonna be good.

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update: skype cloud pbx worked fine

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all companies that would list telecoms as their primary focus are unbelievably awful at IT

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May 21, 2004

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polycom have a noise reduction technology and it's incredibly good. but most people join conferences with poo poo hardware so welp

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use both, garbage quality pstn connection with a 20 year old phone, and then slightly delayed laptop microphone with the setting to play audio back through the speakers turned on.

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maniacdevnull posted:

who's got two thumbs and a 5 hour call scheduled to end at 6pm tomorrow :shepicide:

:stare:

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i can only assume that the people who book 8 hour webex calls are the types of people who frequently say "well we have to be seen to be doing something!!!"

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yeah it will have cost more than 14k.

people always underestimate how large a display they should get for these kind of things, i put a 60" lcd in a room for 8 people and could definitely have gone larger.

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sounds like it's doing you a favour

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maniacdevnull posted:

hand up if you had a call that took 10 goddamn minutes just to get to anything resembling business *raises paw*

same but every meeting

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BONGHITZ posted:

same but when reading your posts

:captainpop:

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skype for business online works fine for that, sorry about your lovely messaging team

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incoming trainwrecks that you can see coming a mile off and are nowhere near being your responsibility to resolve are great though, i agree

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polycom vvx phones with the skype firmware join skype conferences muted by default. the best feature a phone has ever had.

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its a shame that it is complete poo poo at text based im

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it cannot handle text chat if you have more than one device. the use case of starting a chat on a phone and then getting back to your desk and wanting to continue it is not one they considered.

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May 21, 2004

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that is true. if you need to text chat then you're better off starting a video conference and pointing a webcam at your screen. loving up text chat in 2016.

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yoloer420 posted:

double nat.

:barf:

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mishaq posted:

my DECT headset at work has really nice range so sometimes i take shits while on calls and get paranoid about whether or not mute is actually on

all the time, waiting on a support call with vmware? headset on, mute, taking a dump.

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May 21, 2004

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people in cubicles should be issued headsets and have the speakerphone features disabled.

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AWWNAW posted:

while he was presenting, a bunch of horse porn pop ups started appearing over the window he was sharing and he almost had a stroke.

dude needs to realise there's a time and a place for that

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flakeloaf posted:

mr. handsfree

:captainpop:

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flakeloaf posted:

mr. handsfree

quoting this again because drat its perfect

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company has two locations about 120 miles apart, spent a load of money turning a room in one office into a video conference room, didn't buy anything for the other office. one guy travels between the two sites three days a week to sit at a desk and work on email, and maybe once a month has to have a face-to-face meeting.

any money you spend on conferencing stuff you might as well burn or just buy a load of beers with.

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mishaq posted:

i seriously suspect lync/skype for business establishes a SIP session for each line in an IM conversation

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Necc0 posted:

taking a three day training course via webex. class started 35 mins ago and we just now got everyone in and are starting. will keep everyone posted.

:jackbud:

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May 21, 2004

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its poo poo for text chat

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*joins webex* "hey i'm here"
*mute mic, do other stuff for an hour*
*unmute mic* "thanks for that guys, good presentation, bye"

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need that emptyquote button

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Nice!

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why the gently caress is there a code for leaving the conference? does it call you back if you just hang up or something?

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May 21, 2004

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great chat, can you summarise in an email and ill get back to you on the points raised?

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Smythe posted:

its cool that gamers can get 40 drat dudes in a molten core raid with subgroups, muting, etc - pretty reliably, and yet fortune 5 businesses are epic conference call fail. its cool to think that i have a more robust collaborative toolchain with my dota buddies than p deece 7 figmen have at work, which is true, by a longshot.

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