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

So today I had an issue with Lync Windows Fabic files wanting to kill a front end without even taking me to dinner first so I came over this little command to give us some control over them. The location of these hideaways is: C:\ProgramData\Windows Fabric\Fabric\log\Traces You can move these onto another drive if you want

Not directly related to UC but thought it would be prudent due to be being a new LAB I have set myself up to house S4B testing VM’s… For the VPN and L3 I am using pfsense, this has OpenVPN (Cert Auth) built in which is great out the box profile generation and server setup.

Today I had an issue where I had to capture the media and SIP information on a particular call, many people forget the toolsets on the SBC’s which can give you a wealth of stream information. Goto: Diagnostics screen Goto: Packet Capture menu Start the capture process Select your primary interface that sends / recieves

Microsoft have announced the new publicly available Skype for Business Mac Client claiming: Some may say the client is still in a beta, but so far it looks to be ok… For now here are my top 2 Reddit comments in the hope that the public release can change the way it’s perceived: well requiring

We all come over a LRS at least once in our UC lineup, and most just do not have the guides / requirements from a Lync / Exchange perspective. For me out I outlined the basic requirements to get the Lync / Exchange accounts setup as this sometimes becomes a bit fiddly to do with