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 app or a PowerPoint presentation or anything in your share tray to a nearby Microsoft Teams Room. The casting feature first came to Teams mobile client about a year ago and the number one question I got when I published a video on it then was when is it coming to desktop.
It uses the same Bluetooth Beaconing as Proximity Join and it just works.
If you haven’t seen it. Here’s the video for mobile client casting
And here’s a video I did this week on casting from the desktop client
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Thanks for showing this, i have brought up the issue with clicking “Leave” with our Microsoft team becaue frankly 99% of users will just click that button rather than clicking the drop down and choosing “end meeting”. It doesnt matter if its bad etiquette, or expected behavior on our part, what is important is how the end users interface with it.
They need to make it work similar to the mobile client, with either a “Stop Casting” button, or have the room device hang up after 30 seconds if there are no participants in the “meeting” for example. Until they can do that, i am not even notifying our users that casting from desktop is available because it will mean a lot of my rooms will end up unusable as they would be “stuck” in a meeting with no participants!
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