15Feb/16

Avaya EC500 Voicemail Detection Timers and Skype4B Server

February 15, 2016Interop, Lync, Skype4BAvaya, PSTN Calling, SIP Trunking, UMTrevor Miller

Call forking, or in Skype4B parlance ‘Sim-Ring’, can be a nasty business both from a technical perspective and from an end-user perspective.  One can certainly arrive at potential use cases for callRead More…

08Feb/16

Finding Accounts in Skype4B Server with AdminCount Set

February 8, 2016Lync, Skype4BAdministration, Scripting, SecurityTrevor Miller

If a user account is a member of a protected group in Active Directory, permission inheritance is disabled on the AD object and performing tasks like pool migrations, registrar enablement/disablement or grantingRead More…

01Feb/16

Video Based Screen Share within Skype4B and Office365

February 1, 2016Lync, Office365, Skype4BBandwidth, Clients, PlanningTrevor Miller

Updated 1/20/2018 – Corrected information on Office 2016 MSI supportability.  Updated information on Skype for Business for Mac 2016.  Updated Skype Meetings App supportability.  Updated mobility clients supportability. Updated 8/31/2017 – UpdatedRead More…

25Jan/16

Active Directory Site Considerations in Lync Server and Skype4B Server Pool Pairing

January 25, 2016Lync, Skype4BAdministration, Disaster Recovery, Pool PairingTrevor Miller

If your UC deployment is in any way critical then you should be planning your Lync/Skype4B environment to be not only highly available within your data center, but also available in anotherRead More…

18Jan/16

Migrating CMS in Lync Server and Skype4B Server

January 18, 2016Lync, Skype4BAdministration, Central Management Store, Migration, SQLTrevor Miller

I know…I know…you’ll look at the title and say “bah humbug – Microsoft has that documented already…SQUIRREL!“.  To be truthful, yes, Microsoft does have Technet documentation for moving the Central Management Store:Read More…

11Jan/16

The Dangers of SQL Server Security Hardening for Lync Server & Skype4B Server

January 11, 2016Lync, Skype4BAdministration, Security, SQLTrevor Miller

Having spent 6 years of my life working in internal IT for a publicly traded insurance company here in the United States, I am fully aware of the legal requirements and restrictionsRead More…

04Jan/16

Readying USB Thumbdrives for Audiocodes Lync Server SBA Upgrades

January 4, 2016Lync, Skype4BAudiocodes, Patching, Survivable Branch ApplianceTrevor Miller

For customers running Lync Server 2010 that need to go through an SBA upgrade to a later version, such as Lync Server 2013 or Skype for Business Server 2015, the upgrade processRead More…

21Dec/15

Examining Skype4B PSTN Calling in Office365

December 21, 2015Lync, Office365, Skype4BCloud PBX, Licensing, PSTN Calling, ScriptingTrevor Miller

Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling is one of the new features that Microsoft made available to Office365 customers on December 1, 2015. While Cloud PBX is really an umbrella term that covers multipleRead More…

16Dec/15

A Detailed Look at Skype4B PSTN Conferencing in Office365

December 16, 2015Office365, Skype4BLicensing, PSTN Conferencing, ScriptingTrevor Miller

Update 3/2/2016 – Added new information on countries where PSTN conferencing license purchase is now available. On December 1, 2015 Microsoft officially added PSTN conferencing as a native feature for Skype forRead More…

30Nov/15

A look at the new Cloud features for Skype4B in Office365

November 30, 2015Interop, Lync, Office365, Skype4BCloud PBX, Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Calling, PSTN ConferencingTrevor Miller

Beginning December 1, 2015, Microsoft will be officially rolling out a number of new features within Office365 that significantly enhance the Skype for Business workloads.  These features have been in preview form forRead More…