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23. June 202523. June 2025

How to connect an Ascom i63 Wifi phone to Microsoft Teams

This blog post gives you an overview about how to connect an Ascom i63 Wifi phone to Microsoft Teams. The Ascom i63 device is a Wifi device and supports native SIP connections to PBX Systems. Therefor a Teams administrator can use the Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway for connecting the i63 to Microsoft Teams.

The Ascom 63i device

The Ascom i63 is a robust, enterprise-grade VoWiFi handset designed for seamless mobile communication in demanding environments. Available in three models—Talker, Messenger, and Protector—it caters to varying needs from basic telephony to advanced messaging and personal safety features.

The Protector model adds safety features like man-down, no-movement alarms, and automatic emergency calls, making it ideal for high-risk work environments

To ensure optimal performance, Ascom provides Over-The-Air (OTA) updates and validated interoperability with major PBX and Wi-Fi vendors.

Since early 2023, the Ascom i63 has supported Microsoft Teams integration via the Teams SIP Gateway, enabling seamless Teams calling functionality on the device. This certification allows organizations to extend their Teams telephony environment to the i63 handset, combining the reliability of Ascom’s enterprise-grade VoWiFi communication with the flexibility of Microsoft’s collaboration platform.

Configuration of the Ascom i63 for Microsoft Teams platform

To connect the Ascom i63 to Microsoft Teams, the Teams administrator needs to prepare the WiFi phone for Microsoft Teams. The phone requires of course a connection to the WiFi network, a current date and time, at least firmware version xx.xx and the Microsoft Teams profile must be enable for further configuration steps.

For the configuration, Ascom requires a USB connected dockingstation and the Ascom configuration software PWB. The Teams administrator can request this software at Ascom or download it from the Ascom support platform.

When connecting the device for the first time, the provisioning software asks to import the device to the provisioning software. Following parameter and values are required:

Name/Section	Value	Comment/Description

Connecting to Microsoft Teams

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12. October 202312. October 2023

How to archive inactive Microsoft Teams with Azure Automation

In my last blog post, I showed you how to find inactive Microsoft Teams with GraphAPI and Azure Automation. I’ve blogged about a script that writes all inactive Microsoft 365 groups to a SharePoint Online list. In this blog post, I will show you, how to archive inactive Microsoft Teams with Azure Automation.

My solution uses an approval process by Microsoft Flow and a Azure Automation Account with a scheduled script to archive a Team. The script uses the GraphAPI endpoint.

5. October 20235. October 2023

Find inactive Microsoft Teams with Azure Automation and GraphAPI

In many projects I get the question about how to find inactive Microsoft Teams and how to deal with them. In this blog post, I show you how to find inactive Microsoft Teams with Azure Automation and GraphAPI. The script adds all inactive Teams or Microsoft 365 to a SharePoint Online list. In a second blog post, I will describe how to archive these inactive groups. Of course, Microsoft offers a built-in solution for these scenarios. But perhaps the solution doesn’t fit to 100% to your business needs and then an own solution comes into the game.

26. September 202329. September 2023

How to deploy custom background images in Microsoft Teams 2.1

Microsoft will start soon to rollout the new Microsoft Teams client 2.1 and a lot of customers are asking how to bulk deploy customized background images to their clients. In the past, we could just copy our images to a dedicated Microsoft Teams folder and then we were good to go. However, with the new Teams client, this mechanism no longer seems to work. If you copy your images to the appropriate folder, the images will not appear in Microsoft Teams when you try to select your wallpaper. This blog post will show you a way how to handle and solve it.

10. August 202316. August 2023

[Updated] Auto dial with Microsoft Teams

I’ve released a blog post about auto dialing with Microsoft Teams in 2020. A user has commented that the tool AutoHotkey in Version 2.0 is not working any longer with my script. The script is written for AutoHotkey Version 1.0 and the publisher of the software changed the script language in the latest version. Therefor the user asked if I could write an updated script. For me, enough reasons to write an updated blog post about how to auto dial a phone number with Microsoft Teams.

8. March 20238. March 2023

How to connect an Audiocodes MediaPack to Microsoft Teams

In this blog post, I will guide you through the steps to connect an Audiocodes MediaPack to Microsoft Teams. This allows you to use your analoge phones with Microsoft Teams. Of course, it is not the cheapest solution and there are other options. But with Microsoft Teams, you can easily control and manage an analoge phone. For example, you can restrict outbound call destinations by assigning a voice routing policy. Or you can monitor the call quality for analog phone.

22. October 20225. September 2023

How to connect Spectralink IP DECT system with Microsoft Teams

In this blog post you can learn how to connect Spectralink IP DECT system with Microsoft Teams. I write about the requirements, which Spectralink hardware is supported for connecting with Microsoft Teams and how to configure the IP DECT server.

Microsoft supports to connect your Spectralink IP DECT system with Microsoft Teams thanks to the new Microsoft Teams SIP gateway. It allows you to connect native, certified SIP devices to your Microsoft Teams platform. Since September 2022 certified IP DECT systems are also supported.

4. October 20224. October 2022

Customize Music on Hold in Microsoft Teams

In this blog post you will learn how to customize the music on hold in your Microsoft Teams environment. Microsoft announced this feature to be deployed in September 2022 and it allows us to define an own music on hold.

You archive this by configuring the new policy Hold Music in the Microsoft Teams Admin Center. Because it is a Microsoft Teams policy, you have the choice to set a new music on hold globally for all users or to define a music on hold for individual users.

12. September 202224. October 2022

How to find ownerless Microsoft Teams – Part 2

In my first blog post about how to manage ownerless Microsoft Teams, I wrote about the standard tools by Microsoft. In this blog post, I will give you some inputs how to use the Microsoft Graph API in combination with SharePoint Online and Microsoft Flow to find ownerless M365 groups and to stay informed about ownerless teams or Microsoft 365 groups.

I will use the Graph API to get a report about the existing Microsoft Teams. This dataset is filtered on ownerless teams and is written to a SharePoint list. When stored in the SharePoint list, you can extend the solution by triggering a Microsoft Flow to notify the service desk, for example.

13. August 202213. August 2022

How to connect the Poly Rove IP DECT system to the Microsoft Teams SIP gateway

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced a new milestone for the Microsoft Teams phone system – the Microsoft Teams SIP gateway will support IP DECT systems soon. A few vendors are already known and one of them will be Poly and their IP DECT solution Rove. In this blog post, I will write about the configuration and how to setup the Poly Rove to work together with the Microsoft Teams SIP gateway.