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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
As some of you may know, the Office Online Server is the updated replacement for Office Web Apps Server to enable PowerPoint presentation sharing and I’ve recently had the opportunity to deploy Skype for Business Server 2019 and thought I’d write a quick post demonstrating the deployment process. The following is the guide I used […]
There are 2 types of Windows Activation – KMS and MAK. However, for this post, I won’t be discussing on what are those or their differences, as this post is to discuss an error in regards to KMS implementation. Issues : The following error has occurred. Please resolve the error and try again. Description […]
The Central Management Store (CMS) stores a copy of the entire Lync topology for your deployment. Every server has a copy of the CMS, but there can be only one master. Each Lync server downloads a copy of the CMS from this master at regular intervals. By default, the first Lync server you deploy is […]