My migration to Microsoft Teams only mode happened over a week ago, I was sitting in Islands mode and wanted to move to Teams only mode and bring over all my 60+ federated contacts. Prior to making the move, I wanted to make sure that I had a backup of my contacts so I used […]
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How Teams meeting invitations differ from Skype for Business
Microsoft Teams focuses on Team collaboration and is pushing the limit on Intelligent Meetings, utilizing the Cognitive Services of Azure to bring in the meeting details before, during and after to have a successful meeting. I wanted to show the differences in setting up a meeting between ad-hoc/scheduling a meeting in Teams and Skype […]
Polycom Trio 8800- Won’t load calendar
Working with a client that had deployed a Polycom Trio 8800, the phone was registered correctly however the calendar won’t load. I looked at the Trio Status page and shows that EWS is deployed but the AutoDiscover EWS External URL is blank. What I found interesting is it showed the: Configured Exchange URL as https://, so […]
New Skype and Teams Admin Center coming end of March 2018
Last Microsoft Ignite 2017 in a session called Manage all your communications workloads in Office 365 , we were shown a mock-up of the new Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center that will merge the administration of Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. Currently in Microsoft Teams, the administration available is very basic which […]
Teams Mobile Update – 1.0.32
The Teams mobile app has been updated this week with a few new features , that are included in the desktop client. The most noticiable ones are: Create teams and add members on mobile Voicemail is now available on mobile Share chat history with new participant in group chat Mute Chat to reduce some […]
EDGE Server routing out wrong NIC
Environment: Skype for Business Server Front-end server Edge server Issue: At a recent deployment of a Skype for Business Edge Server, the clients DMZ network only had a single subnet 192.168.10.X. So we have to add 2 Network Interface Cards (NICs) to the server however each of the NICs will be on the same […]
Edge Server binding to 169.254 address
Environment: Skype for Business Server 2015 Front-end Server Edge Server Operating System Windows Server 2016 Issue: During a Skype for Business Edge deployment where we had the 2 Network Interface Cards (NICs) one for 1 Internal DMZ and 1 for the External DMZ, both NICs were provided IP Addresses on the appropriate network: External […]
Lync Server 2013: Enable-CSTopology Failed
Environment: Lync Server 2013 Skype for Business 2015 Issue: We had installed a Skype for Business 2015 server however prior to the migration we need to update the Lync Server 2013 to the latest cumulative update. The update completed successfully however in the CU instructions in step 4 it states: Step 4: Enable the […]
Teams Outlook Scheduled Meeting – Wrong Conference Information
Issue: Sending a Microsoft Teams Meeting invite out , but the conference information is wrong. If you are someone like me that you have an account in multiple O365 tenants, one issue that I’ve found is the scenario below: Sending a Teams meeting from Outlook connected to Tenant A Teams signed into Tenant B […]
Lync 2010 -> Skype for Business Migration – Address Book/Authentication Issues
Environment: Lync Server 2010 – Enterprise Edition Skype for Business Server 2015 – Enterprise Edition Issue: When migrating a user from Lync Server 2010 to Skype for Business 2015 we encountered 2 issues: Address book search was not returning any values Authentication pop-up Resolution: The Lync Server 2010 web services can have connectivity issues that […]