Update SQL Server 2014 SP2 constantly fails on Skype for Business Server

2017-10-03 2 min read Skype for Business Erwin Bierens

Recently i had set up a new Skype for Business Deployment, with a Front-end (Standard Edition) and Anywhere365. After installing Skype for Business roles, Windows Update popped up with SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 2 (CU 1) (KB3178925). I tried to install the update using the Windows Update, but everytime i got the error code: 84B30002 When looking at the log files from SQL i did not found anything spectacular, the only strange message is “user has cancelled” Continue reading

Ignite News day 2

2017-09-26 1 min read Microsoft Teams Skype for Business Skype for Business Online Erwin Bierens

Some nice announcements about Skype for Business vNext today. New release of “Skype for Business Server 2019” will available by the end of 2018. / Requirements Windows Server 2016 SQL Server 2016 Only enterprise edition will be available. You can run 1, 3,4… up to 16 front end servers. (2 front end servers not). The directors, persistent chat role and the standard edition will be dropped. SBA/SBS don’t change. New features in Skype for Business Server 2019 Call queues Attendant Voicemail Service Migration Server 2013 -> Server 2019 Server 2013 -> Server 2019 No in place upgrade available. Continue reading

Ignite News day 1

2017-09-25 1 min read Microsoft Teams Skype for Business Skype for Business Online Erwin Bierens

So what’s the most interesting news on Ignite 2017 for today (so far), will update this blog! Skype Operations Framework moves into Practical Guidance for Cloud Voice on Fasttrack MyAdvisor will help you with setting up Voice (link) Skype for Business Server will be updated second half of calendar year 2018 Microsoft Teams client will take over Skype for Business Online client Cloud PBX renamed to Phone System PSTN Conferecing renamed to Audio Conferencing / Continue reading

Public Developer Preview for Microsoft Teams

2017-09-21 2 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

How to enable Developer Preview To participate in the Public Developer Preview, you need to do the following: Go to your Teams client menu and switch to the preview under Menu → About. / What do you get? The following features are available in the Public Developer Preview as of August 25, 2017. Apps in Microsoft Teams Apps in Microsoft Teams allow you to make your service available to users through a single Teams App package, which includes bots, tabs, connectors and compose extensions. Continue reading

Enable External (guest) Access for Microsoft Teams

2017-09-12 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

Microsoft has released Guest Access for Microsoft Teams, but Microsoft Teams guest access is a tenant-level setting and is turned off by default, so i will show you how to turn this on. / Turn on Guest Access on tenant level Go to your Admin portal, Settings, Services and Addins and select Microsoft Teams. Or use the link below. https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/Settings/ServicesAndAddIns Invite guests to your Team go to your Team you want to share and insert the guest users email address

DNS configuration is preventing you from presenting content

2017-09-11 1 min read Skype for Business Skype for Business Online Erwin Bierens

It looks like the file is not automatically updating after DNS changes. Some users will get the following error: You can solve this by deleting the “EndpointConfiguratation.cache” file. Sign out of Skype for Business Click File Exit Open File Explorer Go to “C:/Users//AppData/Local/Microsoft/Office/16.0/Lync/sip_@sipdomain.com” Select File: EndpointConfiguratation.cache and delete it. Launch Skype for Business client and sign in. When you have a older version of Office running change the 16.0 to 15. Continue reading

Cloud Connector Edition Upgrade Issues

2017-08-25 3 min read Skype for Business Online Erwin Bierens

Since i was facing some isssues last time with upgrading our company Cloud Connector Edition it’s a good thing to keep old installers (check below for Archive). We had the CCE 1.4.2 version running, due to some accounting issues the upgrade to 2.0.0 never has started. You can use Set-CcCredential -AccountType TenantAdmin to set the new global admin account. (Global admin role required for 1.4.2, from 2.0.0 and newer Skype Admin role is required) So after setting the right O365 account i tried to start upgrading the appliance. Continue reading

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