An open potential issue with SfB server has been the potential to get a list of accounts, try lots of random passwords and lock those accounts out. With the new Get/Set-CsAuthConfig cmdlets in CU7, you can shut down NTLM and Forms Based Auth externally. For more PowerShell information: Get-CsAuthConfig Set-CsAuthConfig Then, you configure your servers to only accept Certificate Based Auth...
Microsoft Ignite POD2031 Recording – Microsoft Teams News Summary – Podcast Studio, Friday
We’ve just about recovered from all the news and fun at Microsoft Ignite last week. On the Friday I hosted a podcast with guests, Pat Richard – Principal Architect, Microsoft UC, VOSS, Josh Blalock – Principal Consulting Engineer at CDW and Stale Hansen, CEO and Principal Cloud Architect, CloudWay AS. We went over all the Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams news from Ignite. If you...
From Oct. 1st, new 500 seats or less Office 365 customers will be Microsoft Teams and will have no Skype for Business Online
During the massive flood of Microsoft news this week from Microsoft Ignite, something that has been posted publicly on the Microsoft partner forum is about the more active transition from SfBO to Microsoft Teams: Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams upgrade: We recently announced that the roadmap for bringing Skype for Business Online features and functionality into Microsoft Teams is now...
Skype for Business Server 2019 news from Microsoft Ignite
If there is one thing to take away from Microsoft Ignite this year, it’s that Microsoft Teams is Microsoft’s future direction for Collaboration and Unified Communications. There were over 50 sessions around Microsoft Teams but only one on Skype for Business Server. However, there is another version of Skype for Business server that is imminently going to GA we got some more details about it...
Quality of Experience reports added to Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard
A good resource for driving improvements your Skype for Business Online (soon Server with SfBS 2019) and Microsoft Teams session quality, Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard recently added new Quality of Experience reports. Thanks to my friend Aaron Steele for the heads up. The following reports are available: Audio Quality Conference HTTP Proxy Usage TCP Usage 2-Party PSTN Calling Meeting rooms...