The next step from my automatic RGS holiday set was to see if it could be converted to work with Auto Attendant in Skype Online. Easier said than done. In the Office 365 portal you set opening hours by creating a weekly reoccurring schedule like this: There is no way in the GUI to set … Continue reading Automatic holiday schedule for Auto Attendant?
Author: Alexander Holmeset
Skype for Business – Automatic RGS Holidayset
The inspiration for this script came from Chris Hayward´s blogpost/script for creating holiday sets from a JSON source: http://chrishayward.co.uk/2017/07/07/skype-for-business-automatically-set-rgs-holiday-sets-with-powershell-and-json/ As he mentions in the blogpost, the only source for JSON dates for most countries is sites that cost $$$. I ended up with the same conclusion. I thought that there should be a way to … Continue reading Skype for Business – Automatic RGS Holidayset
Say hello to my personal assitant: Cortana
A few weeks back i got access to Exclusive Preview for calendar.help. Microsofts new Cortana AI based assistant for booking meetings. After some email exchange with support because of my callendar was not updating with changes from the service, we finaly got it to work. Support found out that my organisation was using hybrid exchange, … Continue reading Say hello to my personal assitant: Cortana
Office 365 bulk administration
Registered myself a Office 365 trial account some time ago: https://signup.microsoft.com/Signup?OfferId=101bde18-5ffb-4d79-a47b-f5b2c62525b3&dl=ENTERPRISEPREMIUM&culture=us-us&country=us&ali=1 As self education, i wanted to create a bulk administration script for Office 365. This to bether understand O365 and how PowerShell works with it. I ended up writing a bulk administration script with the following features: -Create Office 365 users from a list … Continue reading Office 365 bulk administration
File sending available on the Mac client!
Came over this thread on TechCommunity. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-IT-Pro/New-Skype-for-Business-on-Mac-Insider-build-is-available/m-p/60378#M1547 On Thursday last week they published a new build of the Skype for Business Mac client on the Insider Fast program. File sending is now in beta after a huge amount of requests from the community. You can activate the Insider Fast program by opening Skype for Business … Continue reading File sending available on the Mac client!
Load and log in to all O365 modules
Created a short script to load and log in to all O365 modules. No need to remeber all the details every time. Create a script for each customer you administrate. The script can be found on TechNet: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Load-and-login-to-all-O365-9be3e891 # Before you begin # Before you can manage all of Office 365 from a single … Continue reading Load and log in to all O365 modules
Test-CsFederation = 504 Timeout
I was adding a federation between a external party and a customer i work with that is running a Lync 2013 envirronment. After adding the federation i ran the Test-CsFederation command in powershell to see if it was working before i asked the users to test. The first test took some time before returning a … Continue reading Test-CsFederation = 504 Timeout
Amazon Chime, the new kid in town
Under 24 hours ago Amazon anounced a new unified communications service called Chime. It will be availible for most platforms for desktop and mobile except Linux. Chime has most of the features that Skype for Business have, except for one major feature thats missing. Chime has no PBX feature, only for incoming calls to a … Continue reading Amazon Chime, the new kid in town
Microsoft Teams updated
Looks like Microsoft at least have made some form of integration between Teams and Skype for Business. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Change-Alerts/Microsoft-Teams-has-been-updated/m-p/39340#M569
Skype for Business in Volvo cars
Volvo and Microsoft have entered a partnership to integrate Skype for Business and Cortana in Volvos cars, starting with theire Series 90. Will be interesting to see what kind of operating instructions that will be inn place while driving. From the video it looks like Volvo is moving towards autonomous driving. For the full press … Continue reading Skype for Business in Volvo cars
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