When Microsoft originally announced moving Office 365 to enforce TLS 1.2, one of the blockers was Skype Room Systems using only TLS 1.0 or 1.1. The latest date Microsoft moving to TLS 1.2 is now February 28th 2019. Skype Room Systems v2 Good news on the Skype Room System v2 front. Skype Room System V2 software supports TLS 1.2 protocol since December 14, 2018, with app version 4.0.64.0. Enabling...
Late last year I posted that Oracle and anynode were on track to certified for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, now anynode are officially certified. Like AudioCodes, anynode is also supported on Azure and in the Azure Marketplace For more information check out: They are the 4th vendor to be certified, Oracle is still pending. If you check out the certified list you can see Media Bypass is not...
This week Yealink were the first phones to be certified and generally available for Microsoft Teams. The 3 certified Yealink phones, the T58A, T56A and CP960 can all actually run as Skype for Business phones or Microsoft Teams Phones. Moving forward Microsoft will enable updating of Microsoft Teams phone firmware directly from Office 365, but if you want “swap” a Yealink phone from Skype for...
Instructors Following on from IT Pro focused Enabling Teamwork with Microsoft Teams edX course, Microsoft has released another edX course, Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist. Both courses are free to take, but you do have to pay $99 if you want a digital certificate of completion. In the Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist introductory course you will learn the six critical elements...
Skype for Business Server is not supported in Azure. It works, we’ve run SfB Server labs/dev test in Azure that function fine (but not production). Similarly, Cloud Connector Edition is not supported in Azure, again we know it can be made to work. So it was interesting when Microsoft Direct Routing certified Session Border Controllers (SBC) like AudioCodes offered the option for customers to host...
Happy New Year Server fans. January brings us new CU’s for SfB Server 2015 and Lync Server 2013.
Skype for Business Server 2015 version 6.0.9319.537 :
Lync Server 2013 version 5.0.8308.1068 :
No big features, but a bunch of fixes. SfB server 2015 now supports moving users from on-premises to Teams
Thanks to my colleague Tobie Fysh for the heads up.
It’s official, both on the Microsoft documentation and the Yealink website, Yealink phones are the first generally available IP Phones Microsoft Teams. From the Microsoft documentation, it also looks like the Crestron M100 is GA, with more Crestron phones coming soon. Firmware and admin guides are available on the Yealink site: T58A Teams: T56A Teams: CP960 Teams Teams Phone user...
An update over the holidays, Microsoft is again pushing towards removing TLS 1.0/1.1 support in Office 365. They have previously set dates for enforcing TLS 1.2 but then backed out: Office 365 will Enforce Mandatory use of TLS 1.2 from October 31, 2018, so Lync Phone Edition (which does not support TLS 1.2) will not be able to Connect to Skype for Business Online Microsoft no longer enforcing...