Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition 2.0.0

Today the new Cloud Connector Edition 2.0.0 is released. You can download it right here.

The Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition is a set of packaged virtual machines for deployment on-premises which connect a customer’s existing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) service provider circuits with Skype for Business Cloud PBX operating in Office 365. This allows for the user’s phone capability to be managed out of Office 365 while their phone calls continue to use their existing phone number, circuits and PSTN provider contract

Why Microsoft Teams is so great!

What is Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams is a relative new tool in the Office 365 suite. Teams is combining Office 365 Apps in one tool to facilitate collaboration and communication for groups or you probably can guess, teams. There are several applications on the market like Slack, Azendoo and HipChat but in my opinion they are missing some great integration with all the Office 365 Apps.

Below some reasons why i choose to use Microsoft Teams at Work.

How to enable a Domain Admin for Skype for Business

/ Perhaps you have seen the error message below when trying to enable a Domain Admin (not recommended) in the Skype for Business control panel.

You cannot use the Control Panel to users who belong to protected security groups. So your options are to either use Powershell as suggested in the error message or you could try this magical thing:

1. Open active directory users and computers
2. Enable the advanced features in the view menu
3. Search for the account which is in a protected security group
4. Go to Properties / Security / Advanced
5. Check the following box: Include inheritable permissions
6. Retry what you were doing in the Lync Control Panel

Powerpoint opens off-screen

Today i was running in to a problem when starting powerpoint, it appears to open off the screen (probally an issue because of the use of external monitors at work). The Powerpoint icon appears on the taskbar, and when I click it a window appears to fly off the right-hand side of the screen. When I click again I saw the same window fly back to the task bar.

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Solution

Press Alt+Spacebar then M. Now you can move the window around with the arrow keys (on your keyboard).

Microsoft Lync Connectivity Analyzer

LCA

Yesterday June 13  2017 Microsoft announced the retirement of the Lync Connectivity Analyzer, and will be no longer available for public download. I’ve uploaded the latest version on my host. You can Download LyncConnectivityAnalyzer it right here.

What can you do with this tool?

This tool can help you to test both your internal and external network for the Lync Apps which are available via both the Windows Store and several other stores for mobile devices such as the MarketPlace.

Security Updates Skype for Business (Lync) Client - June 2017

During patch Tuesday Microsoft released two security patches for Skype for Business and one for Lync 2013.

Security update for Skype for Business 2016

Summary

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2017-0283.

(download KB3203382)

Security update for Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013)

Summary

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2017-0283.

Disable .NET Framework 4.7 from Windows Update

Microsoft posted a blog about .NET 4.7 with Exchange is not supported yet.  (link)

About the .NET Framework 4.7

The .NET Framework 4.7 is an in-place upgrade to versions 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, and 4.6.2 of the .NET Framework. In case of Exchange we will need to block the automatic installation through Windows Update of the .NET Framework 4.7 patch. These steps describes how to perform this blocking action.