If you still thinking that Skype for Business is already dead, Microsoft is telling you the contrary, they are still improving their tools to do their best.
One of this, is that they had improved SaRA, this tool allows to fix many problems or at least it indicates you how to fix them.
The most important thing here, is that has been added support for Skype for Business. If you want to dig deepper in this tool, you can find more information in the following post: SaRA
Yesterday was announced in the Techcommunity the roadmap for Microsoft Teams.
I want to highlight the integration between the Skype For Business client and the Microsoft Teams client. With this integration we will be able to share the presence, contacts between this two applications and even to call between this two applications. In a near future, we will have the PSTN calling plans for Teams and more features yet to come.
If you want more information about this, visit the following link: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Roadmap-for-Skype-for-Business-capabilities-coming-to-Microsoft/bc-p/120002#M340
Recently I found on Technet a very interesting article written by the user LucaVitali
This article is a comparison table between Skype for Business and Teams, where the information comes from various sources. In adition to that, Luca will try to update the file and add new features.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/lync/Skype-for-Business-and-aa1c8daa
Enjoy it!
Recently I’d been involved in a O365 project where the client need to use Skype for Business Online, but they have the mail in other platform which is not Exchange Online (I hope they will migrate in a near future). So, the question is: How can they schedule meetings for Skype for Business?
As well as MS has a solution to Schedule meetings in OnPremises, for Skype Online we have a similar solution, which is “Skype for Business Web Scheduler”, very original, isn’t it?
This solution is a web-based program that you can use to create Skype Meetings, in case you don’t have Outlook. The only thing you need is an Internet connection (we are in O365, bravo captain obvius!)
So, we’ll need to navigate to https://sched.lync.com sign in with your work account, and the scheduler will be presented. For people that has been using Skype Scheduler with Outlook, will be very similar to it.
If you have any doubts or need support about this tool, check the following link
Hope that helps!
This issue have been bothering me a while, but not enought to take it seriously, the problem was that everyone was able to see my picture, but not me, so, it was a weird behaviour. Sometimes when I clean the Skype Adress Book, the picture appeared for a few days, but then disappear magically.
So, after spending few hours trying to solve this problem, I found this magical post from Koen Zomers
The steps are quite simple:
You will see that the deleted Lync folder have been created again, and finally your photo shows again. I hope that this problem won’t be reproduced again 🙂
Hi all!
This is an incedent that a customer reported me, the problem was that he has a number of Mac devices that were not able to connect to the S4B OnPremise installation, each time they tried to connect to the client, the received an error.
So, we started to troubleshoot the problem, we revised the logs and then we realized that in one of the trace logs, there was a message related with the certificate, so probably the error was in that direction.
How it was a Mac device, it was not possible to add the device to the domain, so the domain certificates were not included in the chain certificate root, and for that reason the devices does not trust the discovery url from the S4B. So, we donwloaded the certificate from the discovery url, and we installed the certificate in the chain root of each one of the Mac devices that the customer has.
Once it has been done, we were able to connect to S4B trhough the different devices. Could be a silly thing, but we get stuck into that problem for several days.
Hope that helps!
One of the best kept secret of Skype is Skype Meeting Broadcast, which is a large scale meeting service that can host up to 10,000 attendees on any device, Mac, PC, Windows, Mobile, and even Linux devices through a web browser broadcast. Behind the scenes, this kind of service is based on Azure media services, and for example users located in the same geographical area will be connected to the same CDN.
In which plan is included the Skype Meeting Broadcast? In the followings
And who can attend to the meeting? You can select through the following options:
So, your last question will be, how I can start planning a Skype Broadcast? You will need to access to the following link: http://portal.broadcast.skype.com and then select the day you will host the meeting, and then customize the meeting to fit your preferences.
I think that will be a great tool to my customers to host their online meetings or product presentations 🙂
References: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-a-Skype-Meeting-Broadcast-c472c76b-21f1-4e4b-ab58-329a6c33757d?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2015/08/10/exploring-skype-meeting-broadcast/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3122742/bandwidth-requirements-for-skype-meeting-broadcast
Currently, I am using more and more S4B to Schedule Skype meetings to communicate with other people that are not located in my office or even in my region.
By default, everyone that is invited to a Skype meeting is considered as a “presenter” and has full control over the meeting, but sometimes this configuration is not the appropriate for large meetings. Probably you want more control over the audio, video or the content presented over the meeting, so the intention of this post is to give some recommendations about using S4B for this situations.
To do this, the first thing that we have to take into account is that all this configurations are controlled over the Outlook client, so you need to create a new Skype meeting and then select meeting options in Outlook ribbon:
You will have a series of possible configurations:
Where do you want to meet online?
These people do not have to wait in the lobby:
Who’s a presenter?
Do you want to limit participation?
Once you are done making the changes you require, select the “ok” button or press the button to save your preferences for future meetings.
That’s all!
Hi all!
Today I bring a quick tip about S4B. Imagine that you’re busy and you decide to set your status to “Do not Disturb”, as you will know, no one will be able to send you IM, all the IM will be automatically send to the mail. The only option to have a conversation with this status, is that firstly you need to start the conversation with the other person.
But know, imagine that you’re working in an important project with a group of people (a team to be precise). Will be behave the same? The answer is yes, but you can bypass this behaviour doing something very easy.
The only thing that you will need to do is set your privacy relationship with your team members to workgroup. Doing this, the members of the team, will be able to communicate with you via IM.
Hope that helps!
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