“Customizing security roles” for SfB reports is not supported

My commiserations to you. If Google has brought you here because you’re not able to deploy Skype for Business monitoring reports, I have some bad news for you. You’ve just tried to deploy reports to SQL 2014 Web Edition – and that’s not a supported version. The linked article above is quite definite: “If you …

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Lync 2013 Server Update – May 2016

Curiously designated as an April update on the “Updates for Lync Server 2013” webpage, we now have a late-May 2016 update for the Lync 2013 server. This takes the five components that were patched last month to a “release 2.0” (or later) refresh and bumps them up from 5.0.8308.949 to 5.0.8308.956. What’s Fixed? There appears …

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One user’s calls won’t sim-ring

I encountered an interesting situation this week where a user’s calls wouldn’t sim-ring. All of the evidence said it was active, but it just wouldn’t happen; there was no attempt to initiate the sim-ring leg when an incoming call arrived. Sim-ring remained visible to the client, was captured in the XML in his client’s Lync-UccApi-0.UccApilog, …

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Yealink Licence file for Lync & SfB

Should you happen to stumble across a Yealink phone on eBay and decide to rebirth it as a new Skype for Business device you’re likely to receive an unexpected surprise after you load the Lync/SfB firmware – it needs a licence: Contact your local Yealink distributor (that’s Alloy Computer Products here in Australia) and try …

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