After a great week at MVP Summit, I couldn’t really swing getting to Enterprise Connect. Luckily I have some colleagues there and the keynotes are all streamed online. If you want to catch the Microsoft Keynote from Bob Davis, Corporate VP, Office 365 Engineering, Microsoft, you can watch it live here at 10:00 ET: Find your local time here: I’ll be sure to post the news and my reactions on the...
Sometimes you want to troubleshoot from client side, particularly on Skype for Business Online. For the 2016 client, client logs are stored in: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Lync\Tracing\ If you are recreating a scenario, you can exit SFB client and Outlook and delete the folders in this scenario The OCAddin files relate to the Outlook Add in and won’t delete unless you run outlook You can...
Microsoft can provide phone dial in and dial out conferencing PSTN (Public Switched Telephony Network, an old name for phone numbers) for Skype for Business Online and Microsoft Teams meetings. The Microsoft service is included for users with Office 365 E5, or can be bought as a per user add-on in two ways: Pay for a per user per per month licence (standard subscription) Pay no per month licence...
“Hybrid” is possibly the most overused word in our Microsoft world. It means everything and nothing. I often cringe when people talk about their topology as “hybrid” without defining it further, I even try to ban using “hybrid” without any context at Modality :-). So why am I not a fan? Many different Skype for Business and now Microsoft Teams topologies are referred to as hybrid with quite...
Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365 has been around for sometime. It’s a self service tool that works by running tests to figure out what’s wrong. It can fix many problems for you, or it can tell you how to fix them. They recently added support for Skype for Business. It can help confirm users have an active Skype for Business Online account, and do some basic fixes for...