Author: Frank

You may have been on a Teams meeting and heard the rather annoying entry and exit sounds. They can be “+4412343434 has joined the meeting”, or playing the recording name of the joiner or just tones. Announcing out the name or phone number can be important if you are having a highly secure meeting, but […]
What are App Setup Policies? App setup policies give admins a way to control how apps are displayed to users in Microsoft Teams.  You can change the settings in the Global (Org-wide default) policy or you can create new policies for specific users or departments. Admins can decide which apps are displayed on the left […]
Exchange 2016 CU upgrades don’t always go according to plan. In this scenario, one of my servers just wouldn’t upgrade but the rest did without error. The upgrade runs like normal from the CLI but fails with the below error: “Cannot start service MSExchangeServicehost……” When I went to check the Exchange Services, some of them […]
Microsoft Teams doesn’t yet support Azure Information Protection or Unified Classifications. Apparently that’s coming at some point in the future. For now, you can create text based classifications – they don’t do anything other than display in the Microsoft Teams client (and Office 365 Groups) – none the less the are still useful to set […]
The Lync 2013 LHPv2 official documentation goes into some detail about setting users for Tenant creation – however it does not state what to do for Distribution Groups – further it doesn’t state how to make Mail enabled Distribution Groups work within the Lync client if a tenant already has Exchange, and enables Lync as […]
In this post I want to explain how to configure your Exchange 2016 address book environment for multiple tenants. The goal is to host multiple groups of people (let’s call them customer groups) and give them their own address book environment. It is important that these customer groups don’t see each other because this might […]
Lync server includes the Location Information service (LIS), which provides location information to clients such as Lync desktop and Microsoft Lync Phone Edition. Location information is stored in a dedicated database LIS in the central management store. The cool thing about this, is that you can map your physical subnets for example, with an actual location. When […]
Well, this was a bit of a nightmare to debug. I started the whole project with some googling on how to (automatically) remove AD-disabled users from Lync (SfB) Server. This procedure is by no means automatic, and If you disable a user in AD they can still use Lync (at least for some time). Have […]
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