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 […]
Wouldn’t it be awesome to the do the following with Outlook Web Access being published in your on-premises environment today? Cheap proxy solution to prevent direct internet access to your servers Mask the IPs of your on-premises infrastructure Enable Azure MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) for OWA? Have a Single-Sign on experience into Outlook Web Application via […]
With each release of Exchange, we have seen a substantial shift in the way it required load balancers to be configured. For example, between Exchange 2010 and 2013, the requirement for session affinity was dropped. This allowed multiple requests from a single client to take different paths to its mailbox. It no longer mattered which client access servers in a site were involved […]
Adding an external sender notification to the top of an email is an important distinction for many companies. This disclaimer quickly identifies to its end users when a message is sourced from an external sender. This eliminates the guesswork for internal users, helping them to identify potential phishing attacks but also a great reminder when […]