Microsoft Teams is one of the hot Microsoft collaboration tools in the Office 365 suite with huge amounts of attention and development, but not everyone is ready to jump across yet. The hardest sell is for those of us who are using Skype for Business with Enterprise Voice as one of our Microsoft collaboration tools. […]
Office 365 E3 vs E5 - What’s Extra Part 2
Continuing on from Part 1, here’s the second half of extras contained in a Microsoft 365 E5 license, compared to what you get with the much more common Microsoft 365 E5. Here we will take a look at whether or you should be considering when looking at Office 365 E3 vs E5 licensing. The word […]
Getting Ready for the Microsoft Teams Upgrade
If you are a user of Microsoft’s Skype for Business, chances are you have been hearing the buzz about Microsoft Teams. After all, Microsoft is set to sunset Skype for Business in favor of the Microsoft Teams product. While many of us are hesitant when it comes to changing the platforms we use every day […]
Large Address Book Latencies in VDI solved with FSLogix
Recently the FSLogix team was working with a customer, and was posed with a dilemma about whether their toolset would solve a problem with large address book latencies in VDI and Skype for Business. Essentially the problem is that the Skype address book would download every time a user opened Skype for Business which was […]
Stop asking “Who just joined the call?” in your Skype for Business meetings!
We’ve all been on those conference calls where someone is taking roll call and tracking who has joined the meeting. How about the conference calls that introduce each person that has joined the call? Conference calls regardless of the platform you are using tracks the attendees that have joined. Some do it better than others […]
Unable to Join a Skype for Business Meeting? Use the Web app!
Don’t you hate it when you send a Skype for Business meeting invite out to external guests and they have trouble connecting to your meeting? I see this all the time in our day to day activities of troubleshooting issues. Often times it’s because the attendee also has Skype for Business and for some “mysterious” […]
Enterprise Considerations for Deploying the Microsoft Surface Hub
The Microsoft Surface Hub has been shipping now and enterprises are getting ready to deploy these shiny new toys into their enterprises. At first glance they appear to be harmless devices but from what I have learned firsthand they can be little tricky to get integrated into an enterprise. This is especially true if you […]
How to setup Skype for Business meeting Delegation without Enterprise Voice
Outlook calendaring delegation is the ability to manage another user’s calendar, and is a commonly setup in most organizations for anyone that requires access to someone else’s calendar. In this post, we will focus on executives that have staff that require access to their calendars, but again this really applies to anyone in the organization. […]
Skype for Business client – What’s new!
by Phoummala Schmitt The Lync 2013 client update called Skype for Business client that was released in April 14, 2015 and has been out for about 2 months now. This update is really a re-branded and upgraded version of the Lync 2013 client, but with a new GUI plus a few new features. However the […]