This post follows on from my SfB Online Common Area Phone experience where at first i had a number of issues provisioning Common Area Phones for SfB Online which i had to open a Office 365 support ticket and Microsoft had several reports of the CAP Portal not working which has now been resolved. This … Continue reading Skype for Business Online Common Area Phone Setup
An oldie but definitely a goodie from Ignite 2017 presented by Nikolay Muravlyannikov and Carolyn Blanding. I Stumbled across this session and thought ive write up a summary on the session. Keep in mind this is Hybrid Voice with Skype for Business and not Teams and was presented before Microsoft Teams Direct Routing was announced. … Continue reading Plan and configure Hybrid Voice in Skype for Business and Office 365–Ignite 2017 Summary
With the recent announcement that there's a Common Area SKU in Office 365 i wanted to dust off my Polycom VVX and take a look at configuring it. Turns out ive had quite a few issues and i dont think its fully there yet in SfB Online or im probably doing it wrong. I have … Continue reading SfB Online Common Area Phone – my experience so far
There's been an update to the Skype for Business for Mac client ! Ive been moving house this week so been a little side tracked but now the internets in and desk is up im just catching up so this may be old news for some but lets take a looky at this update. … Continue reading Skype for Business Mac Client February 2018 Update Summary
I noticed on tech community there was an update for the Skype for Business Mac client released yesterday on 7th December. Yet again so great to see the Mac client being invested in and updated for fixes and new features. The previous update from October which had a lot of good stuff in and Decembers … Continue reading Skype for Business Mac Client December 2017 Update Summary
Over the weekend i noticed thanks to Twitter and Tom Arbuthnot that Friday 17/11/2017 it seems Microsoft have released CCE v2.1 for Skype for Business Online 🙂 Microsoft previously announced before Ignite and SfBO is becoming Teams we should see co-existence in CCE so it could be deployed alongside Lync Server or Skype for Business … Continue reading Cloud Connector Edition CCE v2.1.0 Released – Adds Operation Management Suite (OMS) support
Just noticed on tech community you can now add DSCP tags to SfB Online IP Phones and here's a quick walkthrough. Tech Community article https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/Configuring-Voice-Quality-of-Service-for-Skype-for-Business/ba-p/118000 Setting the DSCP marking for IP Phones will help with Quality of Service tagging but for QoS you also need to ensure network is configured end to end to honour … Continue reading Configuring DSCP for Skype for Business Online IP Phones
Saw a post on Tech Community Blogs around the SfB Mac Client and new features released in the Insider Fast release. Post on Tech Community here What's Insider Fast release ? The Insider program allows you to install early builds of SfB for Mac so you can test new features before they will be released … Continue reading Skype for Business Mac Client–September Insider Fast release available Summary
In the latest SfB Broadcast from Microsoft this episode goes into the “What's new with PSTN Conferencing” so here's my summary of the video Link to the video is here Delanda Coleman and Oscar Ruiz Garcia Oscar is program manager for SfB and PM for PSTN Conferencing, been at Msft for 8 years. Started working … Continue reading SfB Broadcast Ep.50–What’s new with PSTN Conferencing
Last Friday August 18th there was a new SfB Broadcast featuring Eddie Clifton from Pexip and i wanted to give a summary on the broadcast. Also recommend watching the video and checking out the Questions and Answers from the session that Graham Walsh from Pexip has posted on the Microsoft Tech Community Site link here … Continue reading SfB Broadcast Ep49–3 ways to bring your existing VTC into a modern meeting Summary
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