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“Uniqueness violation. Property: ProxyAddresses” WHAT?

Ahh the joy’s of lifting legacy AD accounts into Office365… If you’re here, you have probably searched for the above error message when attempting to assign a “MCOEV” (“Microsoft Teams Phone Standard” at the time of writing) or maybe even some other license to a user via the MSOL PowerShell module and getting the error… Read More »

Can’t Migrate Licensed Teams User – Licensing Error

I ran into an interesting one today that had me scratching my head as to why we couldn’t move a user from Skype for Business On-Prem to Microsoft Teams. Whenever we attempted to move a small bunch of users from on-prem to Teams the Skype for Business PowerShell Move-CsUser cmdlet would throw the error. The… Read More »

Download here – Someone Nerfed the Skype for Business 2019 debugging tools!

Update: 17th June 2021, Got in touch with the Product Group and this has been restored.Also thanks to Eric Marsi, it looks like the Skype4b 2015 resource kit has been restored as well. Skype for Business Server 2019 and every version of Lync and Skype before it, had an optional set of Debugging Tools. These… Read More »

Enable “HD” AMR Calling on Teams Direct Routing with Ribbon SBC and Telstra SIP

Update: Telstra has officially stated that AMR is “Not Supported” on TIPT for Trunking (Sip Connect). The article I link to below is for their hosted call centre product.However, the Broadsoft Switch at the Telstra TIPT core will just pass along whatever it receives, so whilst it will “work” you may not get support and… Read More »

Backing up my Cloud services including Microsoft 365 with a Synology NAS for “Free”

G’day, and welcome back to UCMadScientist. Today we are continuing our adventures with my Synology DS920+ that was lovingly sent in for review a few months ago. Okay, you got me. It’s not “Free” you still need to buy the NAS itself, put drives in and power it. But, there are no ongoing software costs,… Read More »

Stuck loading in Flight Simulator 2020?

Update: Try just closing the process and opening it again! it seems to help. #LaunchDayIssues? Just a quick one to hopefully help anyone that’s installed the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 from the Microsoft Store. Potentially getting stuck with a progress bar after setting their accessibility preferences (the first thing the game asks you to… Read More »

Running a Teams Live Event? Close Skype4B!

Another quick one today. With the large push to online conferences this year for “obvious reasons” you may have a need to moderate a Microsoft Teams Live event or two. I recently produced several sessions for Commsverse 2020 Online this year. (I might have presented a session too.) If you’re not aware, the producer in… Read More »

Securing Remote Desktop with RoyalTS

Full disclosure: Whilst I obtained a copy of RoyalTS/Server via the MVP program, I was in no way obligated to write this article. Nor did I receive any reward for it. This is my experience after a real incident that I should have done something about sooner. Okay, so as some of you might know,… Read More »

Quick Tip: Copy Users Between Response Groups

Just a quick one, Had to do this for a customer recently where there was a bunch of users in an existing response group and they needed to be copied to a new one. Instead of copying them one by one just run this and you will have time left over for coffee.. (or writing… Read More »

Skype4b 2019 Cannot get the ReportServerWebService URL. Verify that Reporting Services is deployed and configured properly

Another quick one, as part of one of my standard deployments of SFB 2019 I went to deploy the Skype for Business Monitoring Reports and received the error message And I did the usual things, Checked for WMI access, Checked the instance name and checked that the SSRS service was installed and running. Yep all… Read More »