Office 365

Can you schedule a Skype for Business meeting if you’re in Teams Only mode? When a user moves to Teams Only, the “New Skype Meeting” button is removed from the Outlook Ribbon. Therefore the user can no longer schedule Skype for Business Meetings. I’ve been testing Teams Only for the past couple of months and out of interest I wondered whether I could still schedule a Skype for Business Meeting. Note, I can’t find any official guidance from Microsoft, so although this works today, I would imagine Microsoft could disable this at any point. When you’re in Teams Only mode, your meetings should be scheduled in Teams. ...

Microsoft Teams with Calls Icon When enabling users for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, I have noticed when configuring a user for Enterprise Voice, that it can take up to a day for the “Calls” icon to appear so users can make outbound calls using the Dial Pad. Users can successfully receive Inbound calls over DR immediately. You verify that your user is correctly configured for Teams DR: ...

The biggest news from Microsoft Ignite is the announcement of Microsoft Teams replacing Skype for Business Online. This has sent the Community, Skype for Business service providers and Integrators around the globe into a bit of a rumour mill. So the key point is Teams will replace Skype for Business Online. Microsoft will be announcing a new version of Skype for Business Server 2019 (Formerly LCS, OCS & Lync) that we all know and love next year, however this will be for On-Prem customers (I.E. not in a Microsoft datacentre). You will be able to have a Skype for Business and Teams Hybrid deployment. ...

If you don’t have Office 365 or are not using the Office 2016 Click To Run (CTR) software on your end users computers they may be missing out on some great new features. The first great feature of the CTR version of Office 2016 is Consult and Transfer. Lync 2010, Lync 2013 and Skype for Business has desperately needed a Consult and Transfer button. In the past this was a complicated process for some users and I have had potential customers reject Lync and Skype for Business because the process wasn’t slick. I was always of the opinion you could drop a user an IM before transfering rather than making an actual call but some businesses insist they need this feature. Well, it’s here but you need to be running the Office 2016 CTR Skype for Business installed from the O365 portal. ...

After Microsoft released Microsoft Teams yesterday I tried to install it on my company issued laptop (Windows 8.1 64bit). Upon opening Teams I was greeted with the following error: “The program can’t start because MSVCP140.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem” The fix was to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

Microsoft detail how to move users from Lync On-Prem to Lync Online and how to bulk move users in an OU or with a particular AD attribute: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204969%28v=ocs.15%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396. If you want to bulk move users to Lync Online from a CSV you can use the PowerShell below: $creds=Get-Credential Import-Csv movelyncusers.csv -Header Identity | Foreach-Object {Move-CsUser -Identity $_.identity -Target sipfed.online.lync.com -Credential $creds -HostedMigrationOverrideUrl https://admin1e.online.lync.com/HostedMigration/hostedmigrationService.svc} movelyncusers.csv should contain a list of the UPNs of the users you wish to move. No headings are required.

A customer was having problems with their Lync 2010 deployment federating with Office 365. When searching for a Lync Online user they would see “Presence Unknown” and be unable to send Instant Messages. They could Federate with other On-Prem Lync organisations OK. They had LyncOnline configured as a Hosted Provider and Partner Domain Discovery Enabled (Dynamic Federation). Their _sipfederationtls._tcp DNS record was configured correctly as was the O365 customer. Using OCSLogger and Snooper on the Edge server I was able to spot the problem. ...