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When you ar... https://erwinbierens.com/review-jabra-evolve-75e-ms https://erwinbierens.com/review-jabra-evolve-75e-ms Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:10:21 GMT This week I had the possibility to test the new Jabra Evolve 75e MS, a wireless earbud design. And I must say I like the design. / Some quick info on this headset: Stereo earphone https://erwinbierens.com/new-officewebappsfarm-office-online-was-unable-to-find-the-specified-certificate https://erwinbierens.com/new-officewebappsfarm-office-online-was-unable-to-find-the-specified-certificate Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:00:33 GMT When configuring a new Office Online Server i run in to the following error while setting up the new farm with command: PS C:\Windows\system32 New OfficeWebAppsFarm InternalUrl "ht... https://erwinbierens.com/anonymous-meeting-join-in-microsoft-teams https://erwinbierens.com/anonymous-meeting-join-in-microsoft-teams Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:12:49 GMT Microsoft has released the Anonymous Join feature for Teams Meetings. You can use this feature by the following procedure. Create and join a scheduled or adhoc meeting presenter sc... https://erwinbierens.com/the-command-bar-microsoft-teams https://erwinbierens.com/the-command-bar-microsoft-teams Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:46:43 GMT Microsoft is releasing a new feature for the Teams client, the Command Bar. This feature allows you to quickly navigate the Teams client using shortcut commands that can be entered... https://erwinbierens.com/have-your-microsoft-teams-meeting-call-you-back https://erwinbierens.com/have-your-microsoft-teams-meeting-call-you-back Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:57:02 GMT If you've got a Skype for Business Audio Conferencing license, you're now able to dial out to your own phone number from a current meeting. 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Later i changed this to use only the Users OU (due to some IDFix issues in other OUs) I noticed updates did not changed anything in my Offic... https://erwinbierens.com/network-assessment-tool-for-skype-for-business-and-microsoft-teams https://erwinbierens.com/network-assessment-tool-for-skype-for-business-and-microsoft-teams Mon, 11 Dec 2017 07:59:27 GMT Network Assessment The Microsoft Network Assessment Tool provides the ability to perform a simple test of network performance to determine how well the network would perform for a https://erwinbierens.com/holidays-available-for-auto-attendant-skype-for-business-online https://erwinbierens.com/holidays-available-for-auto-attendant-skype-for-business-online Fri, 01 Dec 2017 15:51:11 GMT Holidays With the holidays coming soon Microsoft has released the "Holidays feature" in Auto Attendant (released November 29, 2017) The holidays feature is avaliable for all Phone https://erwinbierens.com/upgrading-the-audiocodes-ems-ovoc https://erwinbierens.com/upgrading-the-audiocodes-ems-ovoc Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:38:20 GMT AudioCodes One Voice Operations Center (OVOC, also known as Element Management System and IP Phone Manager) is a web based voice network management solution that combines managemen... https://erwinbierens.com/update-skype-for-business-2016-client-kb4011238 https://erwinbierens.com/update-skype-for-business-2016-client-kb4011238 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:27:26 GMT Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Skype for Business 2016 client. The version number of this update is 16.0.4615.1000 . In addition to the release of the new client, t... https://erwinbierens.com/microsoft-teams-connect-to-powershell https://erwinbierens.com/microsoft-teams-connect-to-powershell Mon, 06 Nov 2017 08:32:03 GMT Hi Guys, Microsoft recently(11 2017) released the Powershell Cmdlets (still in beta), which gives you the opportunity to manage Microsoft Teams by Powershell. Installing To get sta... https://erwinbierens.com/microsoft-flow-skype-for-business-connector https://erwinbierens.com/microsoft-flow-skype-for-business-connector Mon, 23 Oct 2017 06:34:18 GMT I don't know if you ever used Microsoft Flow, but i use it mostly for getting notification abouts some important rss feeds. In this example i will use a Weather forecast flow. 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New release of “Skype for Business Server 2019” will available by the end of 2018. / Requirements Windows Server 2016 https://erwinbierens.com/ignite-news-day-1 https://erwinbierens.com/ignite-news-day-1 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:07:55 GMT 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 https://erwinbierens.com/public-developer-preview-for-microsoft-teams https://erwinbierens.com/public-developer-preview-for-microsoft-teams Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:56:11 GMT 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 → Ab... https://erwinbierens.com/enable-external-guest-access-for-microsoft-teams https://erwinbierens.com/enable-external-guest-access-for-microsoft-teams Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:42:50 GMT 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 thi... https://erwinbierens.com/dns-configuration-is-preventing-you-from-presenting-content https://erwinbierens.com/dns-configuration-is-preventing-you-from-presenting-content Mon, 11 Sep 2017 08:07:15 GMT 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" https://erwinbierens.com/cloud-connector-edition-upgrade-issues https://erwinbierens.com/cloud-connector-edition-upgrade-issues Fri, 25 Aug 2017 06:32:42 GMT 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.... https://erwinbierens.com/lets-encrypt-and-skype-for-business https://erwinbierens.com/lets-encrypt-and-skype-for-business Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:17:41 GMT For my home lab I’m using the free certificates from Let’s Encrypt (Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority). 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Because I'm a little bit lazy to enable/disable this every mo... https://erwinbierens.com/how-to-install-polycom-vvx-5-6-0-firmware-in-to-skype-for-business https://erwinbierens.com/how-to-install-polycom-vvx-5-6-0-firmware-in-to-skype-for-business Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:01:07 GMT Polycom Polycom has released version 5.6.0 for their range of VVX handsets, which includes the following enhancements for Skype for Business: Support for Dial Plan Normalization, M... https://erwinbierens.com/skype-for-business-cloud-connector-edition-2-0-0 https://erwinbierens.com/skype-for-business-cloud-connector-edition-2-0-0 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 06:49:01 GMT 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 de... https://erwinbierens.com/why-microsoft-teams-is-so-great https://erwinbierens.com/why-microsoft-teams-is-so-great Tue, 18 Jul 2017 06:03:00 GMT What is Microsoft Teams? 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The Powerpoint https://erwinbierens.com/microsoft-lync-connectivity-analyzer https://erwinbierens.com/microsoft-lync-connectivity-analyzer Wed, 14 Jun 2017 12:16:41 GMT 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 versi... https://erwinbierens.com/security-updates-skype-business-lync-client-june-2017 https://erwinbierens.com/security-updates-skype-business-lync-client-june-2017 Wed, 14 Jun 2017 08:15:59 GMT 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 https://erwinbierens.com/disable-net-framework-4-7-windows-update https://erwinbierens.com/disable-net-framework-4-7-windows-update Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:34:59 GMT 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... https://erwinbierens.com/sefautil-skype-business https://erwinbierens.com/sefautil-skype-business Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:58:03 GMT What is SEFA Util SEFAUtil (secondary extension feature activation) is a command line tool that enables Skype for Business Server 2015 communications software administrators and he... https://erwinbierens.com/simplified-port-requirements-for-skype-for-business-online-4 https://erwinbierens.com/simplified-port-requirements-for-skype-for-business-online-4 Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:50:48 GMT Microsoft has announced that the 50,000 59,999 port range (UDP and TCP) no longer is a requirement for Skype for Business endpoints to communicate with Skype for Business Online. E... https://erwinbierens.com/skype-business-setting-rights-monitoring-server https://erwinbierens.com/skype-business-setting-rights-monitoring-server Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:39:22 GMT In order to give some people read only rights to the monitoring reports we'll need to setup some settings in SQL Reporting. Go with Internet Explorer to your monitoring server webp... https://erwinbierens.com/new-release-debugging-tools-v7-0-1678-1 https://erwinbierens.com/new-release-debugging-tools-v7-0-1678-1 Fri, 09 Jun 2017 20:00:35 GMT Skype for Business Server 2015, Debugging Tools is a collection of additional tools for use by IT Admins to aid in troubleshooting Skype for Business Server 2015 deployments. 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