You’ve probably seen this message before and there are a range of potential causes for it. In this case I battled with this one for longer than I would like to have before stumbling upon Ken Lasko’s “Meet URL Gives 404 error” and the fix. Thank you Ken!!
This May 2017 update takes the server from 6.0.9319.277 to 6.0.9319.281 & updates 8 components on my Standard Edition Front-End. What’s Fixed? Kb4020997 Skype for Business Server 2015 Front-End service may crash in Windows Server 2016 Kb4020994 Event ID 36023 is consistently logged on Multiple Front-End servers in a Skype for Business Server 2015 environment …
Preparation Installation Operation Tips, tricks and traps Debugging There’s an old joke that goes “Q: Why do people take an instant dislike to <InsertNameOfUnpopularPolitician>?” “A: It saves time”. And so it is with SEFAUtil. Without doubt SEFAUtil is an indispensable utility. “Secondary Extension Feature Activation Utility” – to give it its full name – ships …
This February 2017 update takes the server from 6.0.9319.272 to 6.0.9319.277 & updates 5 components on my Standard Edition Front-End. What’s Fixed? Kb3212371 Skype for Business Server 2015 installer can’t update necessary drivers (Media Relay driver) Kb3209571 LastActive attribute provides inaccurate information about a user’s presence status in Skype for Business Kb3209570 You can’t set …
I noted in my recent post about CU4 that I’d seen a recurrent 32270 error in my Lab after the install, and that it took another reboot to banish. Roll forward a few weeks to my current customer deployment and I’ve been seeing recurrent PDP (Call Admission Control) errors… since the moment CU4 went on. …
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Guess what happens if you setup your CsHostingProvider incorrectly when deploying Skype for Business on-premises with Office 365 UM? Calls won’t make it to voicemail and a somewhat inaccurate error message from SfB might distract you from the fix. Here’s the relevant part of the trace of a call that the Edge server is trying …
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It’s been a big year of content for Skype for Business Cumulative Updates, and CU4 doesn’t let us down. This update takes the server from 6.0.9319.259 to 6.0.9319.272 & updates 8 components on my Front-End. What’s Fixed? Kb3203706 Long silence when you dial into a meeting in Skype for Business Server 2015 that has name …
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At some point you’ll have performed enough upgrades or migrations to have encountered a DCOM error while trying to move users from one pool to another. It’s generally well-documented: Anthony, Michael, Paul, Michael or others might have shown you the light. It’s usually a permissions thing. You don’t have enough of them. I was a …
CU3 for Skype for Business is in some regards a doozie! Microsoft has finally relented (much, I’m sure to the chagrin of various software vendors) and baked “Busy on Busy” into the product. “What’s that” you ask? Read on & follow the links, or wait for my next post on the subject. This update takes …
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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