All posts by Louis Herber

Microsoft Office365 Cloud PBX Released

Today, Microsoft announces its new telephony service features combined in a new license – E5! These include Broadcast Meetings, PSTN Conferencing and Cloud PBX. Previously you were already able to create a “hybrid” scenario with Microsoft Lync 2013 or Skype for Business Server, leveraging features as “split domain” where some users could be homed in the

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Skype for Business: Cannot Synchronize Address Book

Recently we gained some questions of our customers regarding an odd error message. Error Recently they upgraded the client software and now see an exclamation mark in the client, stating “cannot synchronize address book”. This happened when upgrading to Office 2016; in Lync 2013 (with or without Skype for Business “skin”) everything was normal. You can

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Configure Office 365 Hosted Voicemail with Skype for Business Server 2015

With Telephony / Enterprise Voice enabled in a Skype for Business of Lync on-premises environment, one of the requested features could be Voicemail. In full on-premises deployments this will require Unified Messaging to be installed, configured and enabled in the Exchange Server topology. However, when your environment or customer makes use of Office 365 for

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Skype for Business Broadcast Meetings and Voice in Office 365

On the Microsoft Ignite conference we’d already gained some information on this, but now it has been officially announced: Skype for Business Broadcast meetings! Imagine situations where you want to broadcast a meeting to a larger audience than the (usually) default maximum 250 participants in a meeting on Skype for Business. Soon, you’ll be able

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Skype for Business Server 2015 CU1 available

Skype for Business is only available for nearly two months now, though the first Cumulative Update is already out! Version bumps up to 6.0.9319.55(CU1 / June 2015), from 6.0.9319.0 (RTM): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3061064 Issues that get fixed with this CU: KB 3063353 June 2015 cumulative update 6.0.9319.55 for Skype for Business Server 2015 and Unified Communications Managed

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