Ever since OCS/ LYNC server became Voice enabled we had the option to work with Normalization Rules – Normalization Rules is a way to enable users to maintain their existing dialing patterns, this could be 4 Digit shortnumbers within an organization, or simply the ability to type 8-digit numbers and see them “normalize” within the …
On more than one occasion, when doing a Hybrid SKYPE for Business implementation, i have come across the need to do an, until now, undocumented DNS configuration. Up until now i only saw this need in splitbrain DNS environments. The end result being one-way presence – so internal users had no presence for neither federated, …
Howdy Folks – and happy Easter. A new cumulative patch has been released for SKYPE for Business server 2015. Version number for Core components is 6.0.9319.516 To find your current patch level run this command on a SFB server Get-WmiObject –query ‘select * from win32_product’ | where {$_.name –like “*SKYPE for business*”} | ft Name, …
If you also find it frustrating to manage RGS Holidays – look no further. I see alot of customers struggling to get this done, and look to different Powershell GUI’s and unsupported addons – but often see issues when moving to a new server version. So powershell should be your one-stop-shop for this task. I …
Hi all. Yes i know the subject sounds a bit – well – tricky – however, recently I came to work with a customer that had updated their topology and thus were running the bootstrapper which failed, so something had to be done – for some strange reason the OS patchlevel somehow must have been …
The May 2017 .NET patches introduced a problem in both Skype for Business 2015 and LYNC 2010/ 2013 servers – after the patch the way that .Net handles EKU’s in a certificate has changed.The issue you will find is seen in the event viewer at both all frontends, and on the edge server aswell.Front End …
When managing Response Groups in SKYPE for Business, the tool needed is the Classic “Manage or edit Workflows” Website – very often customers ask if they can control these options by powershell, or even automate some actions. This is indeed possible, the powershell way may seem a bit wrinkled – but it works. 🙂I will …
A Cumulative update has been released today for SKYPE for Business servers.And finally full support for “Server 2016” is here. This CU contains ALOT of fixes for both minor issues and major annoyances like The VoicemailonBusy limitation when running exchange online. And also another MAJOR improvement is the simplified Meeting Join experience. Se lets get …
When using CloudPBX with PSTN Calling, you are able to control the number that is shown when a user is dialing out – when the PSTN Calling feature was in preview this was done with CsCallerIDPolicy’s but they have been deprecated, and a shiny new set of CMD-LET’s have been introduced in order to control …
Hi ! 🙂 I wery often get the question – “We updated this or that in AD – but our clients are not reflecting changes” or worse, clients are reflecting both old and updated info. So i decided to do this guide on how to get on top of things on the SKYPE for Business/ …