Preparing for Teams: Export all your Exchange UM Prompts quickly!

A nice quick post today. Let’s say you’re in the middle of migrating your aging Lync or Skype for Business deployment over to a new platform. Well with Office365 no longer supporting Exchange UM, there is a need to export your existing UM prompts so you can import them into Teams Auto Attendants. (or your… Read More »

Extension based SBC routing for non-DID numbers? You bet!

As you may have guessed by some of my recent posts, I have a client that is in the middle of a large cross-forest migration of their Skype4B environment. The issue As part of their requirements to cut users over, users will be getting new SIP addresses and are being cutover “step by step” instead… Read More »

Adventures with Import-CsUserData and “Specified part does not exist in the package”

TL;DR Searching for the error message and looking for the answer? Skip to the bottom! Introduction to Import/Export-CsUserData I feel a bit of an introduction is necessary as I wouldn’t encourage anyone to mess with these cmdlets unless there are no other options, but. I’ve recently been building a new Skype for Business 2019 deployment… Read More »

Fabric Circular Logging for Skype for Business 2019

The issue If like me, you have been using Pat’s awesome Get-CSFeatures script for your Skype for Business builds. You may have noticed a feature that no longer works with 2019. “Misc Server Config > Set Fabric logging to circular” with the error “This server does not have Windows Fabric Installed” This is no fault… Read More »

How the Jabra Engage 50 Became a Daily Driver.

Welcome back to something I haven’t done in a while. Headset reviews!As usual for disclosure, this headset was provided for review by my local Jabra partner. Yes, we all know that reviewing base model headsets like the Engage can be “boring” but the truth of the matter is, these are what most of your day… Read More »

Report on External Federation in Skype for Business

Introduction Skype for Business is a great communications platform. And as with any form of communication, both inside and outside the company there are always desires to audit who users are communicating with. Maybe you’re looking to see if users are talking to your direct competitors, or maybe you need to disable open federation and… Read More »

Upgrading existing Lync 2013 QoE data to Skype for Business 2019

Skype for Business 2019 is the latest and greatest on-premises UC product from Microsoft, and if you are deploying it in an existing environment as part of your journey to the cloud you may have some legacy call data in your Lync 2013 or Skype for Business 2015 servers. In this guide, we take a… 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 »

Skype Directory Search Fails with Event ID 62044

Note: Full credit goes to Adam Fowler and Benoit Hamet for finding and posting this solution! I’m just trying to make this easier to find. So, You may run into an issue with Skype for Business 2015 or Lync 2013 where a user searches for an external Skype for Consumer contact to be presented with… Read More »

Sefautil Server: Could not find default endpoint element

So ran into a weird one when deploying Landis Computer’s brilliant SefautilServer for a client recently.If you don’t know what that is, I suggest checking out Greigs review over here or maybe just installing it and playing with it with his guide over here Anyway. I got this error message when trying to register the… Read More »