Category Archives: Lync / Skype4B

Articles Relating to Microsoft Lync or Skype For Business

Issues Upgrading to Teams Native mode when using Cloudflare DNS

Recently I ran into an issue upgrading my test Teams tenant from hybrid Skype4B mode to Teams only mode. When running I was getting an error advising that one of my domains was currently homed on a Skype for Business deployment, interestingly a domain that has never had Skype4B on it. This wasn’t an IP… Read More »

Poly Rove is a Teams DECT Phone? It’s more likely than you think! (HowTo)

Ah yes, referencing an early 2000’s NetNanny meme in my opening? I’m sure it makes a nice change from my normal content. Welcome back to UcMadScientist. Today we are talking about Microsoft Teams and Cordless Phone handset solutions. For the longest time since the launch of Teams calling. Customers have been looking at replacing their… Read More »

Faster Sonus/Ribbon Log File Analysis with PowerShell

Have you ever written a cool tool, put it up on GitHub and then totally forgotten to tell everyone about it? Well, I wrote a call Sonus/Ribbon PowerShell log parser and forgot to tell everyone. And it’s super embarrassing! Why? I got so sick and tired of firing up Ribbons on “LX” tool every single… Read More »

Reverse Engineering the new Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway – Part 1

It here. it’s here. it’s finally here! The long-awaited SIP gateway for Microsoft Teams is here. Note: This is a deeply technical article on how the SIP Gateway provisioning service works, if you’re just looking to get your SIP phones working, Martin Boam has a great article over here Unfortunately, despite my begging, I didn’t… Read More »

More MCOValidationErrors and chasing squirrels in ADSIEdit

The experienced around here know an article is going to be good when I mention ADSI edit. But for those that don’t know, ADSI edit is one of the more dangerous Active Directory tools allowing Administrators to edit things directly, even if they have no idea what that means. I hear a lot about how… Read More »