Tag Archives: 2015

.NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 – still an issue

During a recent (re)deployment of one of the Skype for Business 2015 servers, which were (still) based on Windows Server 2012 R2, we stumbled across another .NET 3.5 installation issue. Where this is a hard prerequisite for installing any Skype for Business role, it stopped us from progressing for a moment. As the solution was

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How DNS can affect your Skype for Business federation

Experience another DNS-as-root-cause issue in a Skype for Business federation model. Where this wasn’t as obvious as it looks afterwards, I’d like to share the details of this one. Intermittent results at federation calls were bugging us at first. Some calls were successfully, but some failed with setting up audio. One common ground were that

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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 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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