In my last post (Upgrading to Skype for Business Server 2015) I showed how easy it was to take a Standard Edition Lync 2013 Front-End and upgrade it in-place to Skype for Business Server 2015. Inspired by how simple it turned out to be I thought I’d flip my Edge as well – only to …
The long-awaited ISO has hit, and I’ve been looking forward to taking the in-place upgrade process for a spin. The snag here is that you need to kick this process off from a server already running the SfB Admin Tools – so that meant another machine. Whilst this server could have been only a short-term …
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Since paying US$8.5Billion for Skype back in 2011, Microsoft’s been slowly absorbing its technology into the existing Lync product. Last year we saw Federation between Skype and Lync (albeit with some caveats), this year it was the inclusion of Skype’s “SILK” codecs into the Lync clients, and now today it’s official: “vNext” of Lync (to …
(There’s a caveat I’ll get to later, but at least I have your attention now). Every so often a customer will ask me to configure a recording of ringback tone as a Response Group’s MOH source. Their argument is that they don’t want their callers to be placed on hold or appear to be stuck …
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Creating and administering Analog Devices and Common Area Phones in Lync is sometimes a little tedious. I have a terrible record for forgetting to assign a PIN to Common Area Phones… Inspired by a customer (and to the horror of a purist peer) I’ve created a PowerShell script that provides a GUI for the administration …
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