Skype for Business – like so much else these days – relies on PKI certificates, and the community has risen to the opportunity with some great tools to help us manage them. Here are two in my “essentials” kit: Check out the “Lync Certificates Report“: If you’ve not found it already, Guy Bachar & Yoav …
This update – our first for the year – takes the server from 6.0.9319.102 to 6.0.9319.235. Is this officially CU2? Let’s go with it and see what happens. (Update: Yes, it is “CU2”). What’s Fixed? Kb3095143 Windows 10 users who use Edge can’t join a meeting from Skype for Business Web App Kb3141123 Event ID …
Just to keep us on our toes and to confuse those of us who – like Andrew – keep a rolling “CU” count of updates, Microsoft’s just released the third server update for Skype for Business 2015 and officially labelled it “CU1”. I know; just go with it. This update (Kb3061064) takes the server from …
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I occasionally find myself thrown into a strange Lync or SfB environment – sometimes it’s even a TeamViewer session – and I need to hit the ground running and start discovering what’s going on. Quicker than running up Topology Builder or wading through the output of Get-CsPool, “Get-CsComputer –Local” will tell you very quickly if the …
There’s only a little one here to kick the new month off, and it looks like we have Apple and iOS 9 to thank for it. This update takes the server from 6.0.9319.72 to 6.0.9319.88, with two components affected. What’s Fixed? kb3097592: You can’t join a meeting from outside Lync 2013 for iPhone or Lync …
This month’s security update touches just about everything in my world it seems, and of course Skype for Business 2015 Server is no exception: Kb3089952: Vulnerabilities in Skype for Business Server and Lync Server could allow elevation of privilege: September 8, 2015 To learn more about the vulnerability, see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-104. This update …
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I was presented with the challenge today of updating the recorded after-hours message of many Lync Response Group workflows through PowerShell. The process wasn’t well documented anywhere, so I thought I’d publish our end solution.
I was tinkering in the Lab recently creating a new Trusted App through PowerShell, and at the “Enable-CsTopology” step it failed with a less-than-helpful error: Enable-CsTopology : Command execution failed: “1” error categories reported in topology document. At line:1 char:1 + Enable-CsTopology + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Enable-CsTopology], DeploymentException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ProcessingFailed,Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.ActivateTopologyCmdlet
We’ve hit another milestone with the arrival of the first update for the Skype for Business 2015 Server. This update takes the server to your choice of either 6.0.9319.45 (as described in the KBs) or 6.0.9319.55 (as described on the download link and visible in the image below). What’s Fixed? A few hot buttons have …
Since upgrading the Front End to Skype for Business Server last week it’s become apparent (thanks Ken!) that our old friend “Company_Phone_Number_Normalization_Rules.txt” has been retired. It’s been replaced by PowerShell and with some generic rules to hopefully get you started. Thankfully as before, Event 21034 will tell us if we have numbers in our AD …
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