Category: Lync
Telstra and MS have agreed to provide a PSTN option (finally) from Skype for business online. The telstra sales spead can be found here - https://www.telstra.com.au/business-enterprise/solutions/collaboration-conferencing/cloud-collaboration/telstra-calling-365 A good rundown of it (with less sales-speak) is available here - http://www.skype4badmin.com/telstra_calling_for_office365_announced/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BlvXSTr%2FARtuirZuPGlYhyA%3D%3D The author, concentrates on the release, the price point and the basic concept of what it…
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Being able to communicate with Skype users via Skype for business is fantastic - however, the interface for adding Skype users - well, is confusing. Generally, when talking to someone and exchanging Skype details - the other person will quote their Skype name - which is fair enough - that's how it works with Skype…
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http://www.lync.geek.nz/2015/02/whats-new-in-skype-for-business-server-2015.html
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http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-rebrands-lync-as-skype-for-business-readies-2015-releases-7000035665/ While it makes sense to align the technologies... "skype of business".... gives the impression of a consumer product with business functionality as an after-thought.....
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The Lync Connectivity Analyser is a handy tool for troubleshooting some issues - and is available from http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=36535 Recently i found it was crashing on startup, seemingly from a recent patch. Uninstalling KB2840642v2 (.net framework 4.5 update) made it work again for me. Obviously this might not be an issue for everyone.... either way, i…
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The full guide is here... http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=39071 For those of that already have PIC enabled (most of you i would assume).... i found the guide to be a little bit off, in that my existing provider was called "MSN" - not "Messenger" So, my suggestion is to open up your Lync powershell and....... Get-CsPublicProvider note the…
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I upgraded my servers to Lync 2013 a few months back and all has been working fine..... but in the past few days, i upgraded a couple of home machines with fresh installs - everything was working ok apart from Lync 2013 client, which came up with access denied errors. (but if signed in on…
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well, so much for "available to technet subscribers in mid november" - Exchange, Lync and Office 2013 are available on the technet downloads site now.... Exchange 2013 is kind of usless right now - as to interoperate with exchange 2010, SP3 is required ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719(v=exchg.150).aspx ) - and SP3 isnt out yet - and according…
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So i finally decided it was time to put this in today..... and stop using our mobiles for everything.... the billion config web interface doesnt make ity easy - so i thought i would put up a quick doc in case anyone else is running into the same issue... Via the Web GUI Configure all…
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Consistency.... its what we spend a great deal of time fixing for clients.... sure, they see us writing standardisation documents for AD/Exchange/Group Policy/Logon scripts etc..... but really, what we are doing is trying to delivery consistency - simply because the more things that are consistent within an environment, the more logical it is - and…
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