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I started working from home more than 15 years ago. Working from home is how I work – it might not be in an office building with open planning, quiet rooms, or massage chairs, but my home office stands up to the campuses across the world where I have colleagues.

When I go into the office, it’s a tap into Webex Teams and my first stop is the management office – a team space with my manager and his staff. Once I check that space, I take a detour from my kitchen into the cloud collaboration team space to see how my team is doing and what’s been happening around the sun. My team is dispersed across the UK, Netherlands, Spain, the US (east and west coasts), India, and Australia. With my coffee in hand, I check the operations space to see if there are any issues that need addressing. And then, I settle into my chair, skim my calendar, and wake my Cisco Webex DX80 for the meetings ahead.

For me, Webex Teams is where I work, and it alleviates some of the stress involved with losing the nuanced social cues that you’d likely see in an office (closed doors, deep looks of concentration, laughter, rushing down a corridor for a late call). When I’m heads down on financial planning, I set my Webex Teams status to ‘heads down,’ or ‘do not disturb.’ If I’m taking a breath or getting out of my office for a bit of exercise, I set my status to ‘away’, letting my colleagues know I’m not in my usual setting.

Status and presence also work in reverse. It’s hard to mentally calculate which colleagues are available at what time in respect to my own time zone sometimes. Having presence helps me be mindful of their family time, sleep time, and out of office hours. ‘Sharing’ is another great one which automatically indicates when someone is presenting in a meeting or sharing their desktop screen in an impromptu chat. When that icon appears, I can be mindful of not sending GIFs and emojis to my colleagues and vice versa.

We crave social contact. It’s part of being a member of society. We like to share, tell stories, and feel we’re part of a community. Working remotely can sometimes detract from feeling relevant in an office/work community. When having a conversation, I always have my video switched on, leveraging Webex Teams with my DX80. It’s really the next best thing to being in-person. Seeing a smile can brighten the day, catching up with my colleagues feels good, and noticing something is off lets me know to reach out to help if I can.

Over the years, I’ve gotten into the practice of having ‘virtual coffees’ with people who I want to know beyond the work. I schedule time on their calendar, ask them to grab a coffee while I do the same, and we connect as if we’re walking to a café. It’s helped me to know some of our leaders as well who would have been harder to know otherwise. I remember going to a Women of Impact conference and listening to some of our senior leaders in the company speak. There were some that so moved me that I wanted to connect with them to further the conversation. So, when I got back home, I looked for availability on their calendar, and scheduled virtual coffee sessions. The concept took some by surprise and they agreed. Getting on their calendars for virtual 20- to 30-minute coffee sessions was easier than asking them to go out for coffee 😊. I have gotten to know a couple of folks this way and when I meet them in person at events such as Cisco Live, I already have a connection.

I schedule meetings with my colleagues within Webex Teams without having to switch over to my calendar and many of my productivity tools are integrated with Webex Teams – I can send/share documents from OneDrive or SharePoint Online and even set the privacy controls of that document. You can learn more about Webex Teams integrations here.

Leveraging my virtual office (Webex Teams) allows me to be part of the global office community regardless of where I am working from. It’s the simple things, letting my colleagues know where I am and what I’m doing, that brings them a little closer to my home office and mine closer to theirs.

Do you have any working from home stories?

How to use Microsoft Teams with Cisco Webex

Wish you knew how to use Microsoft Teams with Cisco Webex? Don’t worry. You will know how to soon enough.

While some companies believe they need to choose between apps, many businesses would prefer the option to simply stick with both tools in the same environment.

You may enjoy certain features on Cisco Webex, like Webex Calling, but enjoy the interactions with Office 365 that Microsoft Teams offers.

Ultimately, switching users from Cisco to Microsoft Teams (and vice versa) creates dissatisfaction and productivity gaps in your business.

So, wouldn’t you rather avoid it?

How to use Microsoft Teams if you’re also using Cisco Webex

Figuring out how to use Microsoft Teams with Cisco Webex can be complicated.

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To begin to combat this, Cisco introduced integration between Webex and Office 365.

While this means you can access tools like PowerPoint and Word from your Cisco stack, there is no support available for Teams. You can, however, use Webex Meetings in Microsoft Teams.

There’s also the option to run Webex meetings in Teams through a dedicated app. However, you’re limited to Webex Meetings only. The messaging element is not supported here.

You might be thinking, surely, there has to be a better way?

There is.

Mio eliminates the issues that happen when companies attempt to awkwardly stick Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex together.

How does Mio sync Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex?

Mio provides full synchronization between Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex. You can expect these features (and more) synced across platform:

• Direct messaging
• Channels and spaces
• Image uploads
• File sharing
• Rich text formatting

Let’s set the scene.

If you’re a Webex user in a traditional office environment and you need to chat with a Microsoft Teams user, you’d need to log out of the app and log into your Microsoft app instead.

Time consuming, unproductive, poor user experience.

With Mio, you can stay inside your preferred tool, and direct message your coworkers across platform.

Mio removes the need for third-party apps, complicated plugins, and bots to connect your Microsoft and Cisco users.

With rich text formatting, emojis and file upload/ sharing options, you can also make your messages as personalized and immersive as you like.

Make a mistake? Just edit your direct message from Webex, rather than having to switch to Teams. Want to say something on a Webex Team Space? Visit from your Microsoft Teams Channel.

How do I use Microsoft Teams with Cisco Webex?

All you need to do to get started is schedule your demo here.

You’ll enter your email into our contactform, and here’s what happens next:

• You receive a custom link to your web-based portal for custom onboarding.
• You’ll follow the directions given on your Mio hub to provide the correct permissions for each channel. Then, Mio will scale your cloud service automatically to suit the capacity you need.
• Next, we’ll show you how to use the Mio hub to your advantage. We’ll give you all the information you need to start mapping channels and setting your users up for direct messaging.
• Now, our team can work with you to scale up your service and add more users and channels to your interface. We’ll give you all the guidance you need to discover how to use Microsoft Teams with Cisco Webex effectively.

Enabling permissions for Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex

Mio provides the end-to-end interoperability you need between your Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex users. However, we need you to enable a few permissions on each app for us to connect the dots. On Webex, the permissions we need include:

• Spark: All – for full access to your Webex account
• Spark-admin:roles_read: to read the roles in your organization
• Spark-admin:people_read: to read the users in your company directory

On Microsoft Teams, the permissions we needare:

• Microsoft Graph delegated permissions:
• Read all user’s full profiles and directory data
• Read and write all groups
• Write directory data
• Office 365 SharePoint Online delegated permissions:
• Read and write user files
• Read all items in site collections

Keep your teams in sync

Learning how to use Microsoft in tandem with Webex isn’t just about syncing the appropriate apps and permissions. You’ll also need to get your people onboard too.

Fortunately, with Mio, all employees need to do is a single, one-time authorization to sync their direct messages across both platforms. As an admin, you’ll be able to send a message or prompt that encourages users to do this. You can also access the new Auto Prompt feature to automatically ask users for authorization.

With People Sync, all of your users get to set their preferred chat platform so that messages from other platforms can be routed and accessed natively.

Sign In Webex Teams

Synced users on Mio using Microsoft will be able to participate in direct messages with people using Cisco Webex and vice versa.

On the other hand, non-synced users will simply get a message asking for authorization.

Check out this video to see how seamless direct messaging between platforms can be.

Use Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex together seamlessly

Mio makes forming a true connection between users simple. There’s no need for any additional end-user licensing requirements, and employees don’t have to change their habits or learn how to use new tools.

When your Microsoft users want to connect with a Webex user, they can do this on their Microsoft app, without worrying about a gap between platforms.

Discover how to use Microsoft Teams with Cisco Webex today by requesting a demo.

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