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Troubleshooting Proximity Join Microsoft Teams Proximity join with Auto Answer for the Microsoft Teams Room system is an important feature in achieving the virtual ‘no touch conferencing room’. Using a mobile phone or personal computer we can start a meeting by selecting a nearby MTR using Bluetooth or by the Suggested room list which is a list of rooms that you’ve used recently on your calendar coming from the Exchange address room list.  The mobile phone or PC is used as the content sharing source in this case. The proximity join feature provides Bring Your Own Calendar (BYOC) with BYOD.  This feature provides increased calendar privacy without displaying your meetings on the touch controller interface and physical health & safety in not having to touch the conference room controller to start a meeting. But their are rules to be aware of when using these features and the tips and tricks that follow will help optimize the experience: 1. Make sure yo...

A Microsoft Teams Room for every room The Crestron Mercury MX150 is the first turnkey native  Microsoft Teams c onferencing room system on the market that allows a user to also run a meeting scheduled on a different UC platform.  What does this mean?  Well, I  simply attach the USB and HDMI cables coming from the front of the Mercury to my laptop and utilize any UC client from Zoom, WebEx, Bluejeans, Google Meet, etc.  How this works is quite simple! Once I attach the cables, the Mercury will detect the connection and prepare itself as the speaker and mic along with the front of room camera as USB peripherals for my laptop. The HDMI cable is used to project the laptop display to the front of the room display.  Voilà! When the MTR is not being used as a native Teams room, anyone can utilize the space to run any type of meeting off their own laptop securely with BYOD and BYOC - 'Bring Your Own Calendar' With the majority of companies util...

The Zero Touch Conferencing Space Covid-19 has changed the world forever to say the least. As businesses are now starting to open back up, executives are taking a pause and thinking about what the new normal is going to look like.  Questions that are being asked include:  • How is social distancing going to be implemented?  • How will I provide a healthy and safe working environment?  • How do I project confidence that my workspace is safe and convince employees to come    back?  • Should I build out larger spaces allowing for social distancing?  • Should I scale back the open office and repurpose huddle rooms and build out new     enclosed offices?  • How do I provide a minimal touch environment to limit the vectors of infection if it is    from Covid or something else? These questions are relevant to just about every working space environment.  So, what can we implement today to facil...

Schedule and Start meetings from Crestron XiO Cloud This a repost from a video I did on LinkedIn but thought for prosperity sake I would turn it into a living blog article. The ability to provide remote room conferencing support is front of mind for a many business planning what the new normal will look like in the office. With social distancing, flexible or staggered work schedules the IT and AV staff might not always be in the office to provide in person support.  With Crestron XiO cloud, providing zero touch administration and concierge support from a distance are just some of the features the Doctor has ordered to stay compliant with social distancing and keeping employees safe.  In this video I demonstrate the ability to provide high touch concierge services remotely leveraging XiO cloud by scheduling a meeting and starting a Zoom meeting with the remote control feature. Hope you enjoy this demonstration.