The MMT tool is a crucial part of deployment planning when it comes to moving over to S4B, I can’t remember a customer I have worked on who doesn’t rely on their calendar and meeting’s by the book. Microsoft released an update this month (March 2017) to get a few bugs out of the software: Important

This is an important update as it is the first update that will automatically update all existing installed Skype for Business Cloud Connector (Cloud Connector) 1.4.1 appliances based on the update schedule that administrators have configured for their Cloud Connector Hybrid PSTN Sites. For details please refer to Understanding the automatic update process for Cloud

Custom policy’s have hit S4B online, welcomed by many people who want a bit more granularity and control over what goes on up there.. I would also imagine that these will become more and more required, expanded on in the near future with the push up the the fluffy white stuff… ref: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/Custom-Policies-for-Skype-for-Business-Online/ba-p/53824 Recording: http://aka.ms/sfbcast Mobility: New-CsMobilityPolicy

Yesterday Microsoft announced the Global roll out of the new Yammer replacement (and Skype Online PC) – Microsoft Teams Go try it out, I have to admit you wont be disappointed, another great product! ref: https://blogs.office.com/2017/03/14/microsoft-teams-rolls-out-to-office-365-customers-worldwide/ Today, during a global webcast from Microsoft headquarters, we announced that Microsoft Teams—the chat-based workspace in Office 365—is now generally

The Skype Academy has published the ‘how to’ high level video on the Hybrid and Online migration process, this is based off the SOF (Skype Operations Framework) and is pretty concrete when it comes to actually doing it. Microsoft Published: January 2017 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2tpFlgRmE&index=1&t=1s&list=PLH5ElbTc1hWTsunfXvNVnDFCJCCzrL3R9 SOF Cloud Migration Workflow: https://www.skypeoperationsframework.com/Offers?pageState=CloudMigration REMEMBER: This whole lineup experience is rather new when

One of the thing’s that Microsoft do well is collaboration in general, not just from the end user perspective but getting tech’s to talk, in a variety of ways, using multiple methods. I present: The Skype Academy I am hoping to do a summary level of all the academy videos without all the guff in the

Latest in the S4B KB/CU updates: Big ones on this release that stand out for me: LastActive attribute provides inaccurate information about a user’s presence status in Skype for Business Enhanced 911 (E911) calls using Skype for Business 2016 on Mac don’t work through the non-Windows authentication in Skype for Business Server 2015 ref: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3061064/updates-for-skype-for-business-server-2015