Appear offline in Skype for Business
Hello Community, Ever wondered if we can appear Offline in Skype for Business? Well, then you are at the right place. To enable "Appear Offline" add the below registry (create it if not present) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Lync] "EnableAppearOffline"=dword:00000001Network Assessment Tool Plus - Fedback?
Hey everyone, Recently I've been working on some PowerShell scripts and PowerBI files to transform the data you get from the Microsoft Network Assessment Tool to try and make it more useful (i.e. allowing date/time slicing, combining sites etc...). I've published the results on my blog and the files at TechNet Gallery and would love to know if it's useful to anyone. Any feedback welcome too about the script and the PowerBI dashboards... You can see more background info here: http://www.bibble-it.com/2017/09/05/network-assessment-tool-plus And the TechNet Gallery page here: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/lync/Network-Assessment-Tool-33485351 Let me know what you think?Skype for Rooms not presenting to TV after system sleep
We have one of those LogiTech Skype for Rooms systems with the Surface Pro / Docking station. Ever since the upgrade from v2 to v3 of SRS the system fails to present meeting content to the TV. After a reboot the unit works fine. It shows the default splash screen on the TV and dashboard on the Logitech docking station/Surface Pro. I can start a video call or present from a laptop just fine. Fast forward - the unit is not being used for a while and goes to sleep. I come back 2 hours later, the unit activates. I turn on the TV and only see the (I assume) the desktop extension of WIndows 10 on the TV. I am supposed to the see the default splash screen of SRS, but only see the default Windows 10 background. The docking station/Surface Pro shows the standard SRS dashboard. I plug in a laptop and it switches to presenting, but the TV stays on the default Windows 10 background. Again, this worked fine in v2, but ever since v3 came out, this is bugging us. Any ideas how to fix this?Automatic update holidays in AutoAttendant!
On thursday Microsoft anounced some new features for Auto Attendant in preview. One of them beeing able to create holiday schedules. I have created a script that gets holiday dates automaticaly from the web, and creates schedules in Auto Attendant. Hope you find it usefull. Please leave me any feedback you have. https://alexholmeset.blog/2017/11/12/automatic-update-holidays-in-autoattendant/
New SFB Online User creation from Lync Shell
Hi All, We are moving Sfb to Teams. So I'm trying to create a new script to set up new user for sfb online and then moved to Teams only mode. I got the below errors when trying to create sfb online? #Assign variables $UserName = Read-Host "Please enter the email address of the user you're assigning the number to" $PhoneNumber = Read-Host "Please enter the phone number that you are assigning to this user: +91" $extension = Read-Host "Please enter the phone extension that you are assigning to this number" #Connect to Skype for Business Server Management Shell on Server #Activate voice calling and assign a number to the user Enable-CsUser -Identity $UserName -SipAddressType Emailaddress -HostingProviderProxyFqdn 'sipfed.online.lync.com' -DomainController 'dc1.domain.com' #Enterprise Voice users only Set-CsUser -Identity sip:$UserName -LineUri tel:+91$PhoneNumber;ext=$extension -DomainController 'dc1.domain.com' Invoke-command -ComputerName adsync.domain.com -ScriptBlock { Start-AdSyncSyncCycle } Start-Sleep -s 30 Enable-CsUser : Cannot move user in enable operation. Use the Move user cmdlet instead. Set-CsUser : Cannot open database "xds" requested by the login. The login failed. + Set-CsUser -Identity sip:$UserName -LineUri tel:+61$PhoneNumber;ext=$extension - ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-CsUser], SqlConnectionException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Rtc.Common.Data.SqlConnectionException,Microsoft.Rtc.Management.AD.Cmdlets.SetOcsUserCmdlet ext=$extension : The term 'ext=$extension' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. AsPSTN calls drop with-in 15 - 30 mins with Audiocodes SBC
Hi Community, Recently, I have come across a scenario worth sharing. PSTN calls drops after 15 mins or 30 mins with Audio Codes SBC or Gateway. This can be related or occur due to numerous reason, however if everything is in place (Network to Configuration) and still the call fails, then you can try the below and if it makes the difference. User makes PSTN call > the flow and connectivity is established > after 15 or 30 mins you see BYE message generated resulting in call drop. changing/modifying the "RTCPActiveCalls" and "EnableSessionTimer" may help or simple does't make any difference. Upon isolation, found that issue is mostly triggered due to a setting in Audio Codes S.B.C "Reset SRTP Upon Re-Key" is enabled (usually disabled by default) By going in to the IP profiles > disabling the setting in AudioCodes the issue was resolved and calls no longer were dropped. P.S - This solution may or may not help you (no harm in trying), But its best recommended to contact support and take assistance if needed 🙂
Skype for Business Remember Settings not working
Hi, Since a couple of weeks the "Remember Settings" Button won't work anymore. If the User change the Location "Where will most people call in from" and click on "Remember settings" the change will not be remembered. Client: Office 365 MSO (16.0.12325.20280) 32-bit SfB Server: Skype for Business Server 2015 (6.0.9319.0) Any suggestions will be appreciated Thanks
Skype For Business - Monitor Infrastructure
May be an easy one for you guys. I'm looking for best practice, and advice on monitoring our Skype Infrastructure. We have SFB 2016 on premise. At the moment other than monitoring the topology via the control panel I am unsure as the best way to manage the infrastrucutre. It tends to be more of a reactive environment rather than pro-active. Usually an issue will be reported via our helpdesk which will alert ourselves to a problem. Can you reccomend the best way to monitor : Servers within the environment Services that need to be monitored. (What services) SIP etc Would we be best buying a monitoring tool? Would we be best carrying out an hour a week to carry out manual checks? (hopefully this isn't the case). Any advice would be greatly appreciatedFind Time Auto Schedule Online Meetings - Switched to Teams
This week users started reporting that when they auto schedule an online meeting with Find Time the meeting invites are no longer sending with the Skype for Business log-in information - it's now Teams. We were in coexistence mode for testing and have switched back to Skype for Business only. But Find Time meetings are still sending Teams information. I'm hoping with time the setting change will propagate. but not holding my breath? I haven't seen any communication about this change, did I miss something? Anything I can do to get Find Time to default back to Skype for Business? Many Thanks! -Stephanie
