The UC Architects Podcast

Topics in this episode include:

News Events

-None

Exchange:

-Announcing Exchange Server 2016 Preview!

Office 365:

-News from WPC - Invested in Partner Growth

-Announcing Preview of New Skype for Business Services in Office 365

Lync/Skype for Business:

-None

Events:

-UCDAY UK meeting 09/28/2015

Hosts: Steve Goodman, Michael van Horenbeeck, and Michel de Rooij.

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Running time: 00:49:43

Topics in this episode include:

News Events

- Skype for Business server bits released

- Microsoft Ignite 2015 Overview and Critique

- Questions from the audience

Exchange:

- My Exchange 2013 DAG has gone commando

Office 365:

- None

Lync/Skype for Business:

- LRS Admin Portal released

- Skype For Business / Lync 2013 DDC - Detailed Design Calculator v5

- Skype for Business Resources from Microsoft

- Key Health Indicators for Lync Server 2013 and Skype for Business Server 2015

- Deploy Skype Connectivity in Skype for Business Server 2015

- Client comparison tables for Skype for Business Server 2015

Events:

- None

Hosts: Pat Richard, Dave Stork, John Cook, Ståle Hansen, Tim Harrington, and Tom Arbuthnot.

Guests: Jamie Stark (Microsoft)

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Running time: 01:01:44

Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Event Zero, Event Zero has the most advance analytics and reporting for Lync and Skype for Business available today. With over 15,000 reports, powerlists and dashboards, the comprehensive tool set covers all modalities in a high level of detail, many of which provide administrators with real-time feedback about their environments. Watch for their new Polycom VVX provisioning tool coming very soon. To check them out go to eventzero.com

Topics in this episode include:

News Topics

-Skype for Business client released

Exchange:

-Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script

-Upgrade to Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) version 2

-Apple releases iOS 8.3 which fixes additional Exchange related Issues

-Must-knows for migrating Public Folders to Exchange 2013

-Using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard in Exchange Server 2013 (Part 4)

-IIS Exploit can reboot your Windows 2008 Server R2 and up; install patch KB3042553 ASAP

-Exchange 2013 CPU Sizing Checker

Office 365:

-Office 365 now supports larger email messages—up to 150 MB

-Office 365 datacenter map

-Announcing "Office 365 for Exchange Professionals" (ebook)!

Lync/Skype for Business:

-Potential impact on Lync and Skype for Business meeting join experience when Google Chrome is the default browser

-PBX Replacement secret sauce... How to do a Loud Ringer in Lync / Skype for Business

-Skype for Business client awareness and readiness resources

-Skype for Business Server 2015 documentation now Live on TechNet

-Lync Meeting Update Tool (32 bit) (UPDATED)

-Skype for Business 2015 Protocol Workloads Poster

-Federation Call Flow Skype for Business and Lync clients

-Client Tool Available to download

Events:

-Microsoft Ignite

-UCBUG

-UCDAY

-UCExpo

Hosts: Pat Richard, Dave Stork, and Tim Harrington.

Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode.

Running time: 01:04:14

Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Event Zero, Event Zero has the most advance analytics and reporting for Lync and Skype for Business available today. With over 12,000 reports, powerlists and dashboards, the comprehensive tool set covers all modalities in a high level of detail, many of which provide administrators with real-time feedback about their environments. Watch for their new Polycom VVX provisioning tool coming very soon. To check them out go to eventzero.com

Topics in this episode include:

Exchange:

-Exchange 2013 CU8

-Exchange 2010 SP3 CU9

-Exchange ActiveSync onboarding to Office 365

-Exchange 2013 Hybrid Config Wizard

Office 365:

-Office 2013 modern auth public preview

-Staying informed of changes

-Office 2016 preview

-Updates for Outlook for iOS

-Azure AD Sync

-Office 365 MDM

-Questions from listeners

Lync/Skype for Business:

-Lync Kerberos Account

-Lync/Skype for Business Network Planning for Silk Code

-Controlling Lync/Skype for Business with your arms

-Get ready for Skype for Business

-Updates and Skype for Business

Events:

-Microsoft Ignite

-UCBUG

-UCDAY

-UCExpo

Hosts: Steve Goodman, Dave Stork, and John Cook.

Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode.

Running time: 01:04:39

Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Event Zero, Event Zero has the most advance analytics and reporting for Lync and Skype for Business available today. With over 12,000 reports, powerlists and dashboards, the comprehensive tool set covers all modalities in a high level of detail, many of which provide administrators with real-time feedback about their environments. Watch for their new Polycom VVX provisioning tool coming very soon. To check them out go to eventzero.com

Topics in this episode include:

Exchange:

-Network ports for clients and mail flow in Exchange 2013

-iOS 8.2 has been released

-Using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard in Exchange Server 2013 (Part 2)

-How and when to decommission Exchange Hybrid

-The Office 2016 Mac Preview is here!

-The Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager has been updated

-A Guide to PowerShell for Lync and Exchange Online

-Be the first to learn what’s next for Exchange and Office 365 at Microsoft Ignite

-Free Load Balancer - KEMP Virtual LoadMaster

Office 365:

-Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to enable OneDrive sync for domains that are on the safe recipients list

-Office 365 for Exchange Professionals

-Office 365 Partner Admin app

-Making Clutter in Office 365 even better

-Azure AD Premium (and EMS) available for partner use

Lync and Skype For Business:

-Getting rate limiting warnings for auto-discovered partners on your Lync edge (event id 14603)

-March 2015 update for Lync for Mac 2011 14.0.11 (KB3037358)

-How do I control the Lync and Skype UI with the Skype for Business client

-Managing the Skype Client UI in Skype for Business

-Set up Two-Armed Kemp VLM as Reverse Proxy/HLB for Lync 2013

-Latest Visual C++ 2012 update (11.0.61030) won't let Lync Resource Kit or Debugging Tools install

-March 10, 2015 update for Lync 2013 (KB2956174)

-Lync Monitoring Reports Decoder

-Updates Lync Server 2013 Management Pack

-LS Storage Service event 32054 after you enable Lync 2013 Mobility in an Exchange 2010 environment

-Measure your conferencing adoption today with SQL

-QoS Calculator v1.2

-Update to Lync 2013 mobile app (v5.8, secure app settings, bug fixes)

-database mirror manager update

-Being a UC Superhero with Lync QoE Superpowers

Using Lync like a LyncPro:

-Call Monitor Pro for Skype for Business and Lync: Enhancements and Extensibility

Reviews:

-Book - Lync Server Cookbook

Events:

-Micorosft Ignite

-Registered for the Event Zero Ignite 2015 party yet? Be there for the official release of Dossier for Lync V5.0

-Lyncday becomes skypedays!

-UCBUG Meeting May 13th

-UCDAY UK - 28th Sept by by Andrew P, Steve, Jason Wynn, Iain Smith, Adam Gent and Tom A

Hosts: Pat Richard, John Cook, and Ståle Hansen.

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Running time: 01:25:12

Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Event Zero. The Dossier Lync product family is an integrated suite of functionality designed specifically to enable organization-wide analytics for Microsoft Lync environments. Create actionable intelligence for the organization about the Lync environment and its utilization. Check them out at eventzero.com.

PIN lock and other updates to Outlook for iOS and Android, Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2010 Coexistence with Kerberos Authentication, Training Course: High Availability for Exchange Server 2013, Broken IMAP on Exchange 2013 and how to fix it, Windows Mobile does not support your new SSL certificate, Introducing New-ExchangeWebsite for Exchange 2013, A quick look at the Sunrise Calendar app, RBAC Manager R2 for Exchange, BitTitan offers Nuix-as-a-service, PowerShell for MigrationWiz updated, Sign in page branding and cloud user self-service password reset for Office 365, A better way to recover a mailbox, Automated Hybrid Troubleshooting Experience, Shared Mailbox Sent Items Changes Coming to Office 365, How Groups could be so much better, Using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard in Exchange Server 2013, Office 365: Deployment Content Moving, Azure AD Sync Service Updated, Pausing Music When On A #Lync Call - Using the Client SDK, Lync Client 2013 – Disable Customer Experience Improvement Program, New update for Lync Environment Report now supports custom Word document templates, Lync Server 2013 Control Panel crashes when you access the Route tab under the Voice Routing tab, Lync client may connect to a non federated partner, even if you though it should not, HP to buy Aruba?, Persistent Chat – December 2014 CU – 500 Internal Server Error, February 2015 Cumulative Update for Lync Server 2013, Lync / Skype for Business Photo Editor Version 1.0 available now!, Do you need a Lync Server license for every Lync Server role--or is this just a Lync licensing myth?, Enabling Group Paging on Polycom VVX Phones for Lync or Skype, Issues with Unified Contact Store in combination with Lync on-premises and Exchange Online, Deep Dive into Set-CsPinSendCAWelcomeMail, Skype for Business and Lync troubleshooting 101, Update to Skype for Business / Lync Validator KHI reader. Longer list of counters + graphs, events, and more.

Hosts: Steve Goodman, Pat Richard, Dave Stork, John Cook, and Michel de Rooij.

Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode.

Running time: 01:12:37

Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant.

Exam 70-342 reference, Office 365 Groups, Updating Domain Functional Level,Single click mailbox conversion, Exchange 2013 public folders, multiple vdirs in Exchange, Azure features coming, What's new in Office 365, Lync client update, Sefautil and shared line appearance, review of Jabra Evolve 80, Lync Validator, Lync User Manager, OWAS update, Lync client add-ons, Lync Server Cookbook, Skype For Busiess notes, Getting IMs when stuff happens, Lync Server 2010 update, Lync regions, events, and more.

Hosts: Pat Richard, Johan Veldhuis, John Cook, Justin Morris, and Tom Arbuthnot.

Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode.

Running time: 01:00:59

Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant.

Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is also sponsored by ENow. ENow is offering all UC Architect listeners a free $50 Amazon gift card when you install Mailscape for Exchange OR Uniscope for Lync. ENow’s award winning dashboard help admins quickly and effectively monitor servers and create custom reports. Try Mailscape or Uniscope’s Free 21-day trial, get a $50 giftcard and see how ENow makes Admin Life Simplified. Simply visit http://product.enowsoftware.com/trial-mailscape-for-exchange-and-uniscope-for-lync to sign up.

Outlook for iOS and Android, Microsoft Ignite session catalog available, Get the inside scoop on Exchange at Microsoft Ignite, Blocking Outlook App for iOS and Android, Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013, AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment – Exchange Server 2013, Considering an Exchange 2013 DAG without AAP? Careful!, Using a Microsoft Azure VM as a DAG witness server: Exchange 2013 Help, Performance issues or delays when you connect to Exchange Server 2013 that is running in Windows Server, Securing Exchange and Lync 2013 with Multi-Factor Authentication, Exchange Server 2010 Reaches the End of Mainstream Support, Office for Android, Azure AD Improvements, Amazon Workmail, Setting up a multi-forest hybrid Exchange deployment, Office 365 Exchange Online Message Size Onboarding Limit Increased to 150mb, Drive Shipping and Network Based Data Import for Office 365, SfB video interoperability server (VIS), Cumulative Update 10 for Lync Server 2013 released December 31, 2014. Fix for Google Chrome, stability, Lync 2013 Standard Automatic APP CU 10 December 2014, Lync SDN For Dummies – Part 2.1, Lync Admin Tools (free): make configuration, administrative and troubleshooting of Lync easier, Video calling between Skype and Lync is temporarily disabled , What's New in Skype4B: SILK is default codec for P2P sessions + WEBCAST LINK, Synchronise Lync Presence with Skype, Simple Understanding of Lync Windows Fabric Failover, Lync and Skype video calling is coming to your Android and iOS Devices, Passive Auth for Lync 2013 Android mobile client, We've updated Lync for Windows Phone to include additional settings dedicated to voice calls, events, and more.

Hosts: Steve Goodman, John Cook, and Ståle Hansen.

Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode.

Running time: 01:26:00

Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant.

Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is also sponsored by ENow. ENow is offering all UC Architect listeners a free $50 Amazon gift card when you install Mailscape for Exchange OR Uniscope for Lync. ENow’s award winning dashboard help admins quickly and effectively monitor servers and create custom reports. Try Mailscape or Uniscope’s Free 21-day trial, get a $50 giftcard and see how ENow makes Admin Life Simplified. Simply visit http://product.enowsoftware.com/trial-mailscape-for-exchange-and-uniscope-for-lync to sign up.

Exchange Cumulative Updates and Update Rollups, Outlook updates, Using DSC pull server to deploy, New ebook by our own Paul Cunningham, Michael Van Horenbeeck and Steve Goodman, Office Groups, Clutter, Lync 2103 CU9, Android and Windows Phone mobile client updates, video calling between Skype and Lync, Mac client update, Capturing the output of Get-CsPoolFabricStatus, Windows Server 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy (WAP) as a Lync reverse proxy, Silk in Lync mobile clients, Lync SBAs, Sonus SBC firmware, events, and more.

Hosts: Pat Richard, Steve Goodman, Dave Stork, John Cook, Michel de Rooij, and Tom Arbuthnot.

Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode.

Running time: 01:14:41

Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is sponsored by Instant Technologies, experts in enterprise click-to-chat and eDiscovery solutions, Instant Technology announces Instant Chime for Microsoft Lync. Transform your service desk with Chime and move your support operations from endangered species to wise enterprise. Start your Chime trial at www.addchime.com and join the conversation on Twitter via @teaminstant.

Sponsor: This UC Architects episode is also sponsored by ENow. ENow is offering all UC Architect listeners a free $50 Amazon gift card when you install Mailscape for Exchange OR Uniscope for Lync. ENow’s award winning dashboard help admins quickly and effectively monitor servers and create custom reports. Try Mailscape or Uniscope’s Free 21-day trial, get a $50 giftcard and see how ENow makes Admin Life Simplified. Simply visit http://product.enowsoftware.com/trial-mailscape-for-exchange-and-uniscope-for-lync to sign up.

In this episode, our hosts discuss Microsoft TechEd Europe 2014, and more.

Hosts: Steve Goodman and Ståle Hansen.

Download or subscribe to this show at TheUCArchitects.com. For additional show notes, visit the summary page for this episode.

Running time: 00:19:15