CMS Changes in Skype for Business 2015
While doing some testing of some advanced/crazy items I need to do in my Skype for Business 2015 deployment, I discovered something, CMS changed from 2013 to 2015. What is the Central Management Store (CMS)? The CMS is a SQL…
Quick Tip: SLA Errors – Just Ignore Them
If you have deployed CU1 for Skype for Business, enabled Shared Line Appearance and then looked at your event viewer it most likely looks a lot like this: So after spending a few weeks with a PSS ticket I can tell…
Quick Tip: Polycom VVX File Names
As the world might know, I’ve been playing around with VVX provisioning files for the better part of a few months. We added some basic Polycom Provisioning Server support to the skypevalidator.com website two months ago. I’ve been working on…
Skype for Business CU1 – Shared Line Appearance
Skype for Business Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) is finally here. No, all of those other patches were not CU 1. They were CU 0.1 and 0.2 – but now we have the real deal. You can download the update here:…
Backup for Lync Server 2013
Often I get asked what should someone backup for Lync Server 2013 and thankfully the list of items hasn’t changed that much from Lync Server 2010 to Lync Server 2013. Back in June of 2012 I wrote an article on how…
Patching OWAS 2013 for Lync Server
So we now have our first official patch for OWAS 2013 and you might be asking yourself, how do I patch this server? Well the patch is available via Windows Update or here (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36981). However, it should be noted that…