Biggest enhancement here is the rebrand for Skype for Business 🙂 Lync is now branded Skype for Business with SfB logos and the UI has a dark theme. The design also includes round icons and a round presence indicator. Lync Room Systems are now Skype Room Systems no more LRS its now SRS 🙂 This … Continue reading Lync Room Systems – November 2015 CU available – rebranding for SfB, LRS is now SRS 🙂 (15.14.2)

At last a new SfB bandwidth calculator which includes Office 365, Hybrid and on premises deployment and SILK Codec for Peer to Peer calls 🙂 Download https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19011 Grab the updated version now! Office 365 included in Sites Codec's example Client and Deployment Options Still not LRS or Mobile clients but SfB is included. Version Control … Continue reading New Skype for Business Bandwidth Calculator Version 2.60 🙂

Great to see the Skype for Business Mobile app released for iOS users on iPhone and iPad which just left waiting for Android now. The Skype for Business App has a new look and Skype feel as you would imagine, some new features and resolves the iOS 9 issues with Lync 2013 mobile clients. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3096704 … Continue reading Skype for Business Mobile App available for iOS now !

Skype for Business preview expanding 🙂 sign up for more at http://www.skypepreview.com My colleague Steve Rush sent me this link so thanks Steve 🙂 https://blogs.office.com/2015/10/07/expanding-the-preview-of-skype-for-business-services-in-office-365/ Quick 5 minute summary. PSTN Conferencing preview now available in 14 additional countries Adding more countries to PSTN conferencing which is great stuff ! Cloud PBX Preview now available to … Continue reading Skype for Business Preview expanding

Microsoft yesterday released a new cumulative update for Skype for Business Server 2015. From the KB this look to resolve an issue for Windows 10 users who try and join meetings via the Skype for Business Web App using Edge browser. As Windows 10 is growing and growing i would recommend deploying this CU to … Continue reading Skype for Business Server 2015 October 2015 CU has fix for Edge Browser with SfB Web App

I've been using Skype for Business Broadcast meeting in preview for a while now and i do think its a kick ass for that webinar “Town Hall” style type of meeting to the masses ! Its not a direct replacement for Skype for Business Meetings in terms of all the features, collaboration and attendee and … Continue reading Skype for Business Broadcast Meetings –Scheduling Portal updates so far

Following a few tweets on twitter with @luca_vitali about the release of the SfB basic client @randychapman delivered us some great news its available 🙂 Luca did also mention though its not listed in the client feature list yet though here Randy posted the new link to the Skype for Business basic client 🙂 link … Continue reading Skype for Business Basic Client

Critical update which applies to SfB , Lync 2013. Ive seen lots of links flying flying around and searched MS so I've tried to put them all in one place. THIS IS CRITICAL UPDATE. This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Lync 2013. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a … Continue reading Lync Server 2013 / SfB Critical update, September 2015 Update – Critical update !

Had an issue recently where OWA integration with Exchange 2013 and Skype for Business was not working and users were failing to sign into IM when using OWA. I checked the logging file location on the Exchange Server for OWA Instant Messaging in the following directory %Exchange install drive%\Microsoft\Exchange server\V15\Logging\OWA\InstantMessaging I had multiple Exchange 2013 … Continue reading Skype for Business – Exchange 2013 OWA Sign in Fails – Error – Exception: UCWEB Failure: Code=TlsFailure, SubCode=TlsRemoteDisconnected, Reason=\r\nMicrosoft.Rtc.Internal. UCWeb.Utilities.UCWException: Unknown error (0x80131500)

Updated Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Documentation Help File download below. http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=35405 There’s some references to Skype for Business but its titled Lync 2013 so it doesn't seem 100% Skype for Business but remember a lot of the content is relevant for both Lync 2013 and Skype for Business deployments.