Ditching the dongle on Logitech Zone Wireless 2 – Vesa Nopanen – Future Work today

Zone Wireless 2 is licensed for Microsoft Groups over native Bluetooth. Take pleasure in a full Groups expertise with no dongle.

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Microsoft and Logitech have been working collectively to get us Native Bluetooth help for Logitech Wi-fi 2 headset. I wrote about Logitech Wireless 2 earlier, over a 12 months in the past. Again then (and till just lately) it was required to make use of dongle in the event you needed to have all Microsoft Groups functionalities, that certification brings.

Take pleasure in all of the performance of a Groups assembly with out the necessity for a dongle or extra software program. Be part of a gathering, reply or finish calls, mute or unmute your self, or elevate your hand.

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This “ditch the dongle” -feature was launched just lately, the firmware 1.3.74 improve is dated January sixteenth, 2025.

I’ve been utilizing Zone Wi-fi 2 in my Groups conferences quite a bit. In reality it is a wonderful headset – audio high quality is nice for calls and the lively noise cancellation is excellent. That is actually helpful when household is at residence. And due to Groups Voice Isolation + Zone Wi-fi 2 microphones relations (or in case you sit in a workplace with others: your coworkers) voices usually are not heard by on-line individuals. The one downside for me with Zone Wi-fi 2 is, that it’s on-the-ear headset, which suggests I can’t put on it for a number of hours with no break, because it begins to press on my ears and will get uncomfortable. However a brief break helps for that. Hey, Logitech: do you’ve plans to create an over-the-ear headset with comparable high quality & capabilities by any probability? #wishingwell

Now that the dongle is ditched, I haven’t gotten again to the dongle with Zone Wi-fi 2 anymore. There simply isn’t any have to that. The connection is steady (no breaking apart), controls work and Groups button is lively by way of Bluetooth. That is simply splendid, as I don’t have to fret about utilizing the dongle to considered one of my two USB-C ports on Floor Laptop computer Studio.. This can be a massive factor, particularly while you take the headset to the street with you – otherwise you transfer across the workplace. This additionally implies that I don’t have to fret about forgetting the dongle someplace, or mixing it up with different headsets’ dongles. Somewhat factor, massive influence.

What I do want, that Logitech (and Jabra) would improve different present headsets to dongle-free. They can be utilized by way of Bluetooth (and often it really works fairly okay) however getting that small further with Groups Certification can be welcome. Particularly Logitech True Wi-fi buds and Jabra Evolve2 buds would good thing about dongle-free performance, however most likely there isn’t {hardware} that could possibly be simply firmware up to date to the required degree. Each do work as a Bluetooth headset, however usually are not Groups Certificated when used with no dongle.

Microsoft Swift Pair is making the pairing of the headset very easy. I didn’t catch my very own screenshot in regards to the pairing after the improve, however taking a snip from Logitech’s page tells the way it goes. Simply activate the headset and pair – couldn’t be simpler! The snip mentions the Zone 305, nevertheless it appeared to Zone Wi-fi 2 as effectively.

If you happen to haven’t tried Zone Wi-fi 2 with no dongle thus far, now could be the time to ditch the dongle and have a good time about yet one more free USB-port within the laptop computer! To me that is simply excellent, however I do hope this extends to different fashions and distributors so the age of dongles could be put behind us (no less than partially).

Revealed by Vesa Nopanen

Vesa “Vesku” Nopanen, Principal Advisor and Microsoft MVP (M365 and AI Platform) engaged on Future Work at Sulava.

I work, weblog and talk about Future Work : AI, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Microsoft Mesh, Metaverse, and different providers & platforms within the cloud connecting digital and bodily and folks collectively.

I’ve about 30 years of expertise in IT enterprise on a number of industries, domains, and roles.
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