Polycom UCS 5.5 for VVX Phones
December 10, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · 51 Comments
The latest release of the Polycom VVX 5.5.1 UCS firmware is now available for Lync and Skype for Business (SfB) environments. While the initial 5.5.0 release was published a number of months ago that was only intended for Open SIP applications and was not yet supported for Lync/SfB use. With this release comes a large […]
Fall 2016 SkypeUG Meetings
October 31, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · 4 Comments
The next round of quarterly Skype for Business Users Group meetings has been announced and scheduled starting this month. Latest News Please welcome our newest chapter in Austin, TX as their inaugural meeting kicks off on November 10th. Event Details This quarter’s events will be conducted in our familiar two-session format: The first session will […]
Video Conferencing in Skype for Business Online
September 26, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · 20 Comments
Fresh on the heels of the recent Microsoft broadcast entitled Video Interop in the Cloud have come a number of questions from the overall community looking for further clarification on exactly what all this means. The summaries below also include various details from today’s announcements from Microsoft and some of their device partners at the […]
Summer 2016 SkypeUG Meetings
August 26, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · 1 Comment
The next round of quarterly Skype for Business Users Group meetings has been announced and scheduled starting this month. Event Details This quarter’s event will be conducted in our familiar two-session format: The first session will take a look at the upcoming Skype for Business Mac client as well as review the various Skype for […]
Device Updates with Skype for Business Online
July 8, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · 14 Comments
As outlined in this previous article a wide array of Polycom phones are now supported directly with Skype for Business Online in Office 365. In the past dealing with device updates has been covered in several articles for the different device families and models. These same concepts still generally apply when using the devices with […]
Skype for Business VBSS Update
June 30, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · 44 Comments
Since the introduction of VBSS in the article Video Based Screen Sharing (VBSS) for Skype for Business last year Microsoft has released several changes to the platform to further leverage this technology. This new article will serve as an update to the concepts outlined in the original as well as outline any future behavior or […]
Skype for Business Updates
May 16, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · 27 Comments
By popular request here is an updated article, similar to that of the living Updating Lync 2013 article, which will track the various Skype for Business client and server updates. Note that as with the previous article the various mobile clients are omitted mainly due to their update frequency and little value the historical data […]
Spring 2016 SkypeUG Meetings
April 13, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · Leave a Comment
The next round of quarterly Skype for Business Users Group meetings has been announced and scheduled starting this month. Latest News The user group family has grown to 18 national events this quarter with the addition of Cleveland, OH. Event Details This quarter’s event will be conducted in our familiar two-session format: The first session, […]
Skype for Business 2015 Edge Server Deployment
March 28, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · 56 Comments
This article is intended for those following along with this series of deployment articles to create a Skype for Business (SfB) 2015 Server environment. The instruction in this article is without much of the typical in-depth explanation provided alongside most deployment articles on this blog. A much more detailed companion article entitled Skype for Business […]
Skype for Business 2015 Edge Pool Deployment
March 28, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · 113 Comments
Moving on with this series of deployment articles the next major component of the core Skype for Business (SfB) infrastructure to address is the Edge Server role. This server role, from a deployment and architecture standpoint, is basically unchanged from previous Lync Server product releases. These articles have all focused on a simple Skype for […]
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