Following Skype for Business Server 2015 CU5 May 2017 installation as part of the release notes i noticed something regarding meeting join experiences and i had a light bulb moment perhaps the new meeting join experience that’s already live in Skype for Business Online has come on premises. I had to dig on this. From […]
This is a template outline I have used several times and am very happy with it. It should work great for you and if not then let me know. I did this with vSphere 6.0 U2a and Windows 2016. I also used the vSphere Web Client as you will see in the screenshots. I will […]
I am working at the moment on a large IBM Notes/Sametime migration which will implement Microsoft Lync and Exchange whereby Lync is being delivered to users before they get their Exchange mailboxes due to the quantity of data being migrated. There are a few challenges with this whereby some functionality (to name a few) can’t be […]
When you manually enable or disable the Skype Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office 2016 add-in by using the COM Add-Ins dialog box (by using the steps in the “Resolution” section), the following registry data is updated: Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\UcAddin.LyncAddin.1 DWORD: LoadBehavior Value: 3 = add-in is enabled, 2 = add-in is not enabled “Skype Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office […]
When you disable a user in AD, it’s important you do it in Lync too! ==== One common workflow that is often missed in the Lync world is what happens when you disable a user in Active Directory? For example, if a user has left? Well, the user will remain enabled for Microsoft Lync, and […]
Most home labs and small businesses normally only have 1 public IP address and since a lot of services run on port 443 it becomes difficult to open these to the internet. That’s the case for me, and last week I spent WAY to much time trying to get NetScaler ADFS Proxy running behind a Content Switch. […]
I can across this while installing Lync Server 2013 in environment with a single domain that was based on Windows Server 2008R2. Running the Forest Prep from the Lync Deployment wizard resulting in the following error: Error: Active Directory operation failed on “DC3.domain.local”. You cannot retry this operation: “Directory object not found 0000208D: NameErr: DSID-0310020A, […]
In this post we will take a look at switching between GUI and Server core in Windows Server 2012. One of the most interesting feature in Windows server 2012 is it allows you to switch from GUI mode to Core mode. In other words GUI mode in windows server 2012 is optional, that means you […]