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By Curtis Johnstone, on February 6th, 2018 Questions often arise in Skype for Business Online (SfBO) administration regarding the a user’s registered “location”. In the SfBO admin center we see it as the location field in the user listing as shown here:
This subtle setting is important for the voice Phone System calling plan (PSTN) service configuration in SfBO because it restricts what phone numbers can be assigned to a user, and their associated emergency location. Specifically, only registered emergency locations (addresses) that belong to the same country as a users’ location can specified for that user. In addition, when assigning phone numbers to a user, only acquired numbers in the same country are available for . . . → Read More: Office 365 Usage Location and Skype for Business Online
By Curtis Johnstone, on September 15th, 2017 As many ITPro’s have found out through remote PowerShell scripting against Exchange Online, there are limits.
The same holds true for Skype for Business Online when using the Skype for Business Online Windows PowerShell Module. These are often an issue when scripting across thousands of objects. For example, applying a SfBO policy to 15,000 user objects.
The throttling limits are very similar to that in Exchange Online. From experience, here are the hard limits:
3 concurrent sessions per credential used to connect 10 concurrent sessions per tenant Throttle Limits for Resources and Types of Resources A resource is an object, or a type of object such as a Policy, . . . → Read More: Skype for Business Online PowerShell Throttling Limits
By Curtis Johnstone, on March 30th, 2017 Some said it wouldn’t happen. Some said it couldn’t be done. Well, it’s here 🙂
After several years, I have made a major overhaul to the RUCT tool – a simple native Windows application to troubleshoot Skype for Business & Lync Sign-in, DNS, and Certificate issues.
With the release of several similar good free Microsoft tools over the past few years (such as the Microsoft Lync Connectivity Analyzer), I didn’t see the need to upgrade this tool. But after repeated requests it was obvious it was filling a need that other tools were not. During a recent Skype for Business hybrid implementation, I ended up going back to this tool . . . → Read More: Major Update to the Remote UC Troubleshooting Tool (RUCT)
By Curtis Johnstone, on April 30th, 2016 As I work more with enterprises adopting Skype for Business (SfB) Online in Office 365, many questions arise about setting user policies which govern which features which compliance, security, and resource usage.
There are many policies (about 12 that applicable to individual SfB Online users), and each type of policy can have many settings (52 for the Conferencing Policy for example), and it is difficult to know what settings are available, what the individual setting enables/disables, and which ones matter the most.
In my experience the 4 most commonly used SfB Online policies are:
Conferencing External Access Client Voice
The importance of each policy type will depend on what features . . . → Read More: Key Skype for Business Online Policy Settings
By Curtis Johnstone, on July 14th, 2014 I discovered a fantastic set of free Microsoft content recently and wanted to share it with my readers. Eric Ligman from Microsoft has put together what he calls the:
Largest collection of FREE Microsoft eBooks ever, including: Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2013, Office 365, Office 2010, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, Lync 2013, System Center, Azure, Cloud, SQL Server, and much more
In addition to some good Lync content there are some valuable free resources for Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, SharePoint, PowerShell, and Azure. You can access it all here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2014/07/07/largest-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-ever-including-windows-8-1-windows-8-windows-7-office-2013-office-365-office-2010-sharepoint-2013-dynamics-crm-powershell-exchange-server-lync-2013-system-center-azure-cloud-sql.aspx
There are ten Lync specific digital publications available. Many of them you have seen . . . → Read More: Free Microsoft Lync eBooks
By Curtis Johnstone, on October 9th, 2013 There has been a smattering of updates in the recent days covering Lync 2013, Lync 2010, and Skype. This post summarizes all the releases and highlights what is noteworthy. The October 2013 Updates cover 5 major areas:
Lync Server 2013 Lync 2013 Mobile Client Updates Lync 2010 Client and Server Lync Phone Edition Updates Skype for Kindle & iOS7 Devices Lync Server 2013
The October 2013 Cumulative Updates for Lync Server are summarized and available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2809243.
One headline feature included in this cumulative update is “Operator Assistance” (see Update that enables the operator assistance feature during a PSTN dial-in conference in a Lync Server 2013 environment). This feature, when . . . → Read More: A Summary of Recent Updates for Lync 2013, Lync 2010, and Skype
By Curtis Johnstone, on July 31st, 2013 My previous blog entry “Anatomy of a SIP Domain Change” looked at the user impact and process of changing the domain portion (right-hand-side) of a Lync user SIP addresses. This blog entry will describe the user experiences when the left-hand-side is changed (i.e. the user name portion before the @ sign). Changes to the left-hand-side usually occur when there are changes to user name formats, or a user has a name change that affects the user name portion of the SIP Address (e.g. after a life event such as marriage).
Changing a SIP address is not an exact science. This blog post details some lessons learned after the left-hand side . . . → Read More: Anatomy of a SIP Address Change – Part #2
By Curtis Johnstone, on June 27th, 2013 Overview
Mergers, acquisitions, and branding initiatives usually necessitate a significant but poorly understood change to a Lync Server deployment: a change to the domain name used in the Lync user SIP address (the right-hand-side of the @ sign).
Making this change in a way that minimizes user disruption is a challenge. This blog post aims to provide additional insight and guidance on the user impact, the process to follow, and what changes are required to your infrastructure.
It was written for Lync Server 2010, but all of it should be applicable to Lync Server 2013 (as far as I know).
This post focuses on changing the SIP domain portion of . . . → Read More: Anatomy of a SIP Domain Change
By Curtis Johnstone, on May 15th, 2013 The Microsoft documentation for Lync Server 2013 has improved considerably from previous releases. Having recently walked through a couple of installations of the native Lync Monitoring reports, the process is documented much better than in the Office Communication Server days! The documentation related to installing the prerequisite SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) for example is much improved.
If you are installing the native Lync Server 2013 reports, along with the TechNet documentation, these 5 tips will get you up and running faster.
1] What are the High Level Steps to get the Lync 2013 Monitoring Reports Working?
There are many Microsoft TechNet articles on planning, configuring, deploying, and installing . . . → Read More: 5 Tips for Installing the Lync 2013 Monitoring Reports
By Curtis Johnstone, on March 21st, 2013 For those living with the annoying issue of the Lync Server 2010 Control Panel crashing on a VMWare image, a fix has quietly been released in the form of a new update to Silverlight (which was the underlying cause).
The original issue was caused by a Silverlight 5.x update (specifically Silverlight 5.1.10411.0) and the only workaround was to rollback to Silverlight 4.x. This was annoying when updates applied to the image re-upgraded Silverlight to the 5.1 version and the issue surfaced again.
On March 12, 2013 Microsoft released an update to Silverlight 5: see MS13-022: Vulnerability in Silverlight could allow remote code execution.
This updates Silverlight to be 5.1.20125.0 and . . . → Read More: A Fix for the Lync 2010 Control Panel Crash Issue on VMWare
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