Yammer Quick Tip: Moving Conversations between Groups
You didn’t read that title wrong! This is a post about Yammer on the Mastering Lync (err..Skype for Business) blog. You might be asking, why? Because this is really about Unified Communications in general (hence the Exchange and sometimes random…
Quick Tip: Test Audio Service via Mobile
So we were presented with an interesting question. Can we use the Audio Test Service on the mobile client. When I tried to search for the object on my Windows Phone it didn’t find anything (I’ll be honest, could be…
SkypeValidator beta is now available
The transition from LyncValidator to SkypeValidator is nearly complete. Although many items look “similar” I can tell you under the hood it’s a complete rewrite of the code to attempt to make things much faster. So what are the big…
What I Use: Plantronics Voyager UC Focus Review
I don’t review devices all that often but today I find it necessary to say some words about the Plantronics Voyager UC Focus…wow…what a name. But now that we have gotten over the absolutely crazy name of the device let’s…
Quick Tip: Bulk removal of Azure Endpoints
Today we take a step outside the Skype for Business toy box and look at some PowerShell with Azure. The goal is easy, to bulk remove all associated EndPoints with a particular VM hosted in Azure. The most difficult part…
Quick Tip: Aries/LPE Phone / Calendar Integration Issues
Problem: Although 3PIP phones continue to improve with each release we find that many companies are still going back to the CX series phones because they are built well and simply work. Recently, I ran into an Exchange integration error…
Quick Tip: No Dial Plans available in Exchange 365 / Voice Mail
Problem: You have configured your Hosted Voicemail Policy to work with Office 365/Exchange Online and Skype for Business (Lync) On-Prem. We do this by creating a policy that looks like this: Image at: http://masteringlync.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1.png When we would call the Exchange…
Using Call Quality Dashboard (Part One)
This is going to be a multi-part series on using the Call Quality Dashboard. I don’t have a sense of how many articles there will be but I promise more than one and less then 100. Overview The Call Quality…
Windows Fabric + Skype for Business 2015
Back in October 2013 I wrote an article on how Windows Fabric and Lync Server 2013 interact with one another and now it’s time to write an in-depth article on what’s change. Overview Lync Server 2013 used Windows Fabric v1,…
Call Quality Dashboard Config/Use
Overview The Call Quality Dashboard (CQD) is a new feature that allows you to have a new view of your CDR/QoE information. Unlike the existing Monitoring Server, this feature doesn’t require or rely on SQL Reporting Servers (SRS) but rather…