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Call via Work
Overview Call via Work (CvW) is the next generation and replacement for Remote Call Control (RCC). RCC was introduced as a bridge that allowed organizations to leverage the cost of their legacy PBX...
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Skype for Business Conferencing Activation/Deactivation
This is an updated article of my Lync 2013 Deep Dive Overview Conferences created within Skype for Business don’t last forever. There is some point in time in which the information needs to be removed...
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Call Quality Dashboard Config/Use
Overview The Call Quality Dashboard (CQD) is a new feature that allows you to have a new view of your CDR/QoE information. Unlike the existing Monitoring Server, this feature doesn’t require or rely...
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Windows Fabric + Skype for Business 2015
Back in October 2013 I wrote an article on how Windows Fabric and Lync Server 2013 interact with one another and now it’s time to write an in-depth article on what’s change. Overview Lync Server 2013...
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Using Call Quality Dashboard (Part One)
This is going to be a multi-part series on using the Call Quality Dashboard. I don’t have a sense of how many articles there will be but I promise more than one and less then 100. Overview The Call...
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Quick Tip: No Dial Plans available in Exchange 365 / Voice Mail
Problem: You have configured your Hosted Voicemail Policy to work with Office 365/Exchange Online and Skype for Business (Lync) On-Prem. We do this by creating a policy that looks like this: When we...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Aries/LPE Phone / Calendar Integration Issues
Problem: Although 3PIP phones continue to improve with each release we find that many companies are still going back to the CX series phones because they are built well and simply work. Recently, I...
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What I Use: Plantronics Voyager UC Focus Review
I don’t review devices all that often but today I find it necessary to say some words about the Plantronics Voyager UC Focus…wow…what a name. But now that we have gotten over the absolutely crazy name...
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SkypeValidator beta is now available
The transition from LyncValidator to SkypeValidator is nearly complete. Although many items look “similar” I can tell you under the hood it’s a complete rewrite of the code to attempt to make things...
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Quick Tip: Test Audio Service via Mobile
So we were presented with an interesting question. Can we use the Audio Test Service on the mobile client. When I tried to search for the object on my Windows Phone it didn’t find anything (I’ll be...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Where is my ICE ICE Baby? V6 is gone!
Before we get into the changes in the Office 2016 and Skype for Business 16.x client a quick note of what ICE is. According to Microsoft’s SDP Extension document: Interactive Connectivity...
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Quick Tip: Moving RTCReplicaRoot Share
Let’s start by issuing the following disclaimers. Warning #1. This is not supported in production environments. You should use at your own risk and should test/validate before implementing. I’m not...
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Quick Tip: AT&T U-verse modem breaks Skype for Business/Lync
Problem: Audio Distortion Problems This one comes via Rob (one of our support team members at Time2Market) who ran across this gem of a problem. We had a support ticket that calls to a single person...
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Quick Tip: Polycom VVX Phones & SLA
So if you have been following my blog you know that I’m a huge fan of Shared Line Appearance (SLA) that was added to Skype for Business and later brought back to Lync 2013. We use it so much, that...
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Quick Tip: Polycom VVX Phones & Configured Source Preference
Another day and another odd ball item when it comes to desk phones. I don’t think this one is on Polycom in particular but it’s interesting none the less. Background Info One of the really neat...
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Quick Tip: Finding SimRing Settings in the Database
In this scenario we have a user who is having his/her phone SimRing to an endpoint (such as their mobile device) yet the client doesn’t show any SimRing turned on. How can you verify in the database...
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