Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference
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@bnrstnr said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
@black3dynamite said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
Have you considered Zoom too?
https://zoom.us/I was looking into Zoom a little this morning. The 40 minute meeting limit on the free tier is a deal breaker there. The proposed Teams/FreePBX would be less expensive than the $14.99 tier, and anybody in our organization could use it instead of one person basically being the admin still.
Yeah, kinda hard to beat "included with things you already have."
I'm also wondering if you're breaking the licensing of WebEx by having that one guy make meetings for other people when he himself is not attending? only a thought, I don't know the licensing requirements of WebEx.
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@Dashrender said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
I'm also wondering if you're breaking the licensing of WebEx by having that one guy make meetings for other people when he himself is not attending? only a though, I don't know the licensing requirements of WebEx.
Probably. :see-no-evil_monkey: I haven't looked into it either.
It's only a couple times a year. Almost everybody has some kind of meeting software, our other users normally just tell the other parties to set it up.
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@Dashrender said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
I'm also wondering if you're breaking the licensing of WebEx by having that one guy make meetings for other people when he himself is not attending? only a thought, I don't know the licensing requirements of WebEx.
It doesn't sound like what we do is against the rules. He doesn't share the credentials, he hosts (schedules) the meeting and then just doesn't attend.
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@bnrstnr said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
@Dashrender said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
I'm also wondering if you're breaking the licensing of WebEx by having that one guy make meetings for other people when he himself is not attending? only a thought, I don't know the licensing requirements of WebEx.
It doesn't sound like what we do is against the rules. He doesn't share the credentials, he hosts (schedules) the meeting and then just doesn't attend.
nice.
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We are ditching Webex for Teams (hooray), but I haven't dicked around with Teams too much yet. The owner is pretty stoked about having conference/chat/screen control all rolled into one. Webex is insanely expensive considering how we use it (99% of use screen control of a customer's pc by our support staff).
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@bnrstnr said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
Does this sound like a feasible solution?
We do something similar. We have a conference on VitalPBX and use Zoho Meetings. The free version of Zoho Meetings doesn't offer "dial in" options, but we don't care because we have the conference bridge to use instead.
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@RojoLoco said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
Webex is insanely expensive considering how we use it (99% of use screen control of a customer's pc by our support staff).
And if it is even free, it's still crap compared to other free options. It's the worst tool for meetings I've used in a long time.
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@bnrstnr said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
It doesn't sound like what we do is against the rules. He doesn't share the credentials, he hosts (schedules) the meeting and then just doesn't attend.
I think that that is a really common model. Zoho works that way, too.
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@Dashrender said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
I'm also wondering if you're breaking the licensing of WebEx by having that one guy make meetings for other people when he himself is not attending? only a thought, I don't know the licensing requirements of WebEx.
Imagine a rule where the host isn't allowed to "not pay attention." While you can write it, it's pretty grey no matter what.
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@JaredBusch said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
Zoom is awesome and cross platform.
WebEx can go sit next to faxes and wait for nuclear fire.WebEx is definitely the fax machine of online conferencing.
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@Dashrender said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
I only use WebEx when vendors or someone else invites us to a meeting - so with that in mind - I hate WebEx because of the shit add-on they basically force on you... I really wish instead they would primarily push the one time use module that they have available.
My favourite feature of WebEx is that they flat out don't support any OS that we run. So when vendors send us WebEx we just say "that's a pure dial in for us, no way around it." It's that simple.
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@scottalanmiller said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
@RojoLoco said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
Webex is insanely expensive considering how we use it (99% of use screen control of a customer's pc by our support staff).
And if it is even free, it's still crap compared to other free options. It's the worst tool for meetings I've used in a long time.
Our employees use it to control remote customer computers, but while on a regular phone call. Only 1 feature at a time...
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@scottalanmiller said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
@Dashrender said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
I only use WebEx when vendors or someone else invites us to a meeting - so with that in mind - I hate WebEx because of the shit add-on they basically force on you... I really wish instead they would primarily push the one time use module that they have available.
My favourite feature of WebEx is that they flat out don't support any OS that we run. So when vendors send us WebEx we just say "that's a pure dial in for us, no way around it." It's that simple.
Have you tried a MS Teams meeting on a Linux based OS? I don't think it's a huge deal for us. Most CAD shops that we deal with are also Windows shops.
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@bnrstnr said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
@scottalanmiller said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
@Dashrender said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
I only use WebEx when vendors or someone else invites us to a meeting - so with that in mind - I hate WebEx because of the shit add-on they basically force on you... I really wish instead they would primarily push the one time use module that they have available.
My favourite feature of WebEx is that they flat out don't support any OS that we run. So when vendors send us WebEx we just say "that's a pure dial in for us, no way around it." It's that simple.
Have you tried a MS Teams meeting on a Linux based OS? I don't think it's a huge deal for us. Most CAD shops that we deal with are also Windows shops.
I don't think that I have. I've used Teams on it, but not for a meeting.
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@bnrstnr said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
One thing I didn't like about teams is that you have to install a client to attend the meeting, which is the same for Webex and just about every other major solution if I remember correctly.
I just attended a Teams meeting today and it didn't require I install anything. Joined via web browser.
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@bnrstnr said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
One thing I didn't like about teams is that you have to install a client to attend the meeting, which is the same for Webex and just about every other major solution if I remember correctly.
Zoho doesn't have a client either. All web based. Same as Rocket and NextCloud.
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@scottalanmiller said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
@bnrstnr said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:
One thing I didn't like about teams is that you have to install a client to attend the meeting, which is the same for Webex and just about every other major solution if I remember correctly.
Zoho doesn't have a client either. All web based. Same as Rocket and NextCloud.
They all use the WebRTC components in modern browsers.
