Real-Time UC

A Universal Communications Blog by Office Apps and Services MVP Michael LaMontagne

Bugs CloudPBX Enterprise Voice Lync Office365 Skype for Business

Skype for Business Online/Cloud PBX dial plan extensions rule issue

You could say that I’ve spent a few hours with Cloud PBX, but it wasn’t until I attended Doug Lawty’s session “ Understand the mysteries of Dial Plans and Voice Routes in Skype for Business” at Microsoft Ignite 2016. That a single slide on the default dial plans caught my eye (around the 15 minute mark).

Lync Office365 Skype for Business Tips

Guest appearance on The Skype Show (Episode 3)

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker on The Skype Show ( http://www.theskypeshow.com/). This monthly online video web cast is the brainchild of a newly awarded Microsoft Office Servers and Services MVP Mark Vale, which is dedicated to the evangelism of unified communications. The Skype Show has been going strong for almost a year and has had many amazing guest speakers, kudos to Mark on all his hard work and gaining MVP status!

Bugs Lync Skype for Business

Skype for Business anonymous join failure when meeting organizer is disabled for federation

Before we start, I highly recommend you first read Scott Stubberfield’s “Anonymous join from Skype for Business and Lync Clients” blog post: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/scottstu/2015/04/03/anonymous-join-from-skype-for-business-and-lync-clients/

Now that you understand the anonymous join process, we’ll go into one scenario that I’ve been tracking since Lync Server 2013 RTM (almost 4 years…).
UPDATE Sept 17,2017: Issue resolved, see: Skype for Business Anonymous Join Success When meeting organizer is disabled for federation

Lync Skype for Business

Microsoft Ignite: Why I Attend

As someone that lives and breathes Microsoft Unified Communications day in and day out, I get asked why would I attend Microsoft Ignite? Being an Office Servers and Service MVP (AKA Skype for Business MVP), I have an NDA with Microsoft and usually have a chance to preview items on or before being published to the public Roadmap ( https://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap). Also I get the privilege to spend a week with the Microsoft Product group in November during the MVP Summit.

Bugs Fixes Lync Office365 Skype for Business Tips

Office 365 domain purpose changing without modifying domain settings

I’ve come across an interesting bug in the Admin Center Preview portal in-regards to the domain purpose changing without reason. This is further to my recent blog posting: Federation Fails with Office 365, which required disabling the Skype for Business domain purpose for domains using On-Premises or Third-Party hosted environments without hybrid configured to resolve federation issues.

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