Fellow MVP Jeff Guillet wrote an article about the fact that disabling a user’s Active Directory account doesn’t mean they can’t log into Lync/Skype for Business. This is due to the way Lync uses certificates and authentication based on them. I highly recommend you read the article. I recently was writing some documentation for a customer and wanted to […]
When I see administrators manually enabling all of their Lync / Skype for Business users it makes me cringe. With just a few lines of PowerShell and a scheduled task you can have users enabled for Lync / Skype for Business automatically. Simply copy the script examples and modify them with your infrastructure details and […]
Lync 2013 introduced a new feature called Pool Pairing. Given the scenario below with 2 sites using Lync Standard Edition with paired pools, in the event that Front End 01 was to fail, or Site 1 failed completely all users will automatically register to Front End 02. However they will receive an error in their […]
Exchange 2013 can provide archiving storage of Skype for Business Server 2015 instant messages between contacts and web conferencing transcripts. These are stored in the user’s Exchange mailbox removing the requirement of a SQL Server database. There is an area within the user’s mailbox that is hidden from the end user, but indexed by Exchange […]
When Skype for Business Server 2015 and Exchange 2013 are deployed together, user contact lists can be stored on Exchange 2013 and called using EWS instead of SIP requests to the Skype for Business Server. By default, contact lists are stored in Skype for Business’s SQL database. Enabling the UCS allows users to work with […]
Integrating Skype for Business Server and Outlook Web App adds instant messaging and presence to Outlook Web App and enables your unified contact list to be shared between Outlook Web App and Skype for Business. After server-to-server authentication is in place (check another post of mine here) we then can enable Instant Messaging from OWA Here […]
Recently I had to perform a familiar function: integrating Skype for Business with Exchange in order to allow IM and presence functionality inside of OWA (or “Outlook on the Web” as it is now known). While the process on the Skype for Business side has stayed the same, Microsoft has introduced a new way to […]
Skype for Business Server 2015 utilises other applications and server products and must be able to communicate securely and seamlessly with them. Take for example the Unified Contact Store and Exchange 2013. If you want to configure Skype for Business Server to use Exchange 2013 to store contact data, you will need to have the […]