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?

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

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!

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

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

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

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    

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

Here is a collection of Skype for Business resources. Will update the lists as i encounter more sites/tools.   Powershell scripts collections: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=RootCategory&f%5B0%5D.Value=lync http://www.ucunleashed.com/scripts https://greiginsydney.com/category/powershell/ http://uc.lawedo.net/p/lync-scripts.html http://www.lyncexch.co.uk/applications/   E-books: Installing Skype For Business Step By Step - https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Skype-for-Business-Server-f4dac647 Tools: Who can federate tool - https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Who-Can-Federate-Tool-a9e00d23 Holiday Set Editor - http://waveformation.com/holidayseteditor/ Dialing Rule Optimizer -  https://www.lyncoptimizer.com Detailed Design … Continue reading Skype for Business resources

Here you have a collection of all the SfB sessions at this years MS Ignite. Thanks to Tom Arbuthnot for creating this playlist. Enjoy 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Wvc6qYnuQ&list=PLX3hEt0xBumd96nVCgm45rsY6OrEUfoZm