Since the COVID-19 pandemic corporations have started utilizing “soft codecs.” These consist of video conference software like Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Webex. The traditional conference room utilizes hardware such as Cisco Webex Room Kit Pro or Polycom GroupSeries. Soft codecs provide a USB for a user laptop to connect to the conference room’s microphones, camera and speakers. So the world is now about USB connections and platform licenses on the soft codec.

This training was for Microsoft Teams Rooms. Microsoft historically has lead the market in hardware compatibility. Teams Rooms are no different. The Microsoft Teams Room is compatible with many hardware types including Lenovo, Logitech, Crestron and Hewlett Packard. The training covered the entire process of installation, to network configuration, to deployment all the way to user implementation.