CloudPBX via on-premises PBX
Howdy Folks, Some interesting functionality has come out of the new Microsoft Office 365 CloudPBX with on-premises PSTN Connectivity in Skype for Business Server 2015. On 7th October 2015 Microsoft...
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Howdy folks, The iOS Skype for Business, formerly Lync 2013, app was released on 14th October 2015. In this new release we have seen an intuitive and familiar Skype UI, to include: Simplified dashboard...
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Skype for Business via free Sip Trunk – Part 1
Howdy All, I’m going to create a two-part blog on the integration of Microsoft Skype for Business and Elastix PBX utilising a SipGate Basic sip trunk. Much of what you read in this could not have been...
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Skype for Business via free Sip Trunk – Part 2
Hello All, This is a follow on from Part 1 – found here. In this post I am going to walk through the process of creating the Elastix server and the configuration of the Elastix PBX to speak to the...
View ArticleSkype for Business – Hybrid with little on-prem deployment
Howdy folks, This week Microsoft have announced that you will soon be able to use a hybrid deployment from Skype for Business to Microsoft Office 365 with no on-premises server deployment, well,...
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GoDaddy and Office 365
Howdy folks, Today I added a few domains to one of our Office 365 tenants that I use on a regular basis. Ashley Richardson @letscollabor8 advised me that the adding additional domain process has vastly...
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Skype for Business hybrid with OOTW
Howdy Folks, As Office 365 becomes increasingly powerful and the functionality becomes closer to what expect from an on premise configuration on Skype for Business, you need to be able to take...
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Office Web Apps on Windows 2012 R2
Howdy Folks, Once upon a time installing Office Web Apps server was a breeze. Anyone could roll up and use Pat Richard’s script to download the ISO and prep everything to be done on the server. Now...
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Jabra Evolve 80 review
Howdy folks, This week I have a review on the Jabra Evolve 80 headset. I am in no way sponsored by Jabra and this is an independent opinion in a series of Lync product reviews I plan to publish....
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UC Birmingham User Group – 10th of February
10th of February 2016 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Birmingham, United Kingdom 6:00 – Networking 6:30 – Jason Wynn – Voice of Skype for Business – Hybrid and Cloud’ Jason Wynn will cover the two new options...
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Provision Telephone Numbers in Office 365
Howdy folks! As we proceed through the inevitable that all forms of Skype for Business will be moving towards Office 365 / Skype for Business Online. This may come in the form of a Hybrid or a fully...
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Provision dial in conferencing in Office 365
Howdy all, As we continue on from where I left off earlier with PSTN Telephone number provisioning from Office 365, http://bit.ly/O365TelephoneNumbers we now have PSTN Dial-in conferencing. Dial-in...
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Unified Communications Day 2016
Howdy folks, Back into October 2014 Steve Goodman, Andrew Price and I put a challenge to ourselves to create a dedicated Microsoft Unified Communications event run by the community for the community....
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Number Porting with Office 365 Cloud PBX
Howdy folks, As part of my on-going series on getting users configured with Enterprise Voice from Office 365 a Skype Online I have created a guide on porting existing numbers over to your Microsoft...
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UC Birmingham User Group – 11th of May
11th of May 2016 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Birmingham, United Kingdom We have a Xbox One to give away at this event! Be sure to register and attend. 6:00 – Networking 6:30 – IR Prognosis – One View to...
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UCBUG – May 11th
Come and join us on this Wednesday There is now only a couple of days until our next Unified Communications Birmingham User Group meeting that will be happening on the 11th May, make sure you don’t...
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Configure Busy on Busy in Skype for Business
Configure busy on busy With the release of Skype for Business CU3 – we now have the ability to enable “Busy on Busy” So what is Busy on Busy? Busy options are a new voice policy attribute in Microsoft...
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Microsoft Cloud User Group – 9th of February
February 9 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm 6:00pm – Networking 6:30 – Al Eardley – Head of Solution Design @ CPS – Office365 Group vs Teams “What you should be aware of” Microsoft have provided some great tools...
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Microsoft Cloud User Group – 16th of February
February 16th @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm 6:00pm – Networking 6:30 – Ed Baker – Technical Evangelist @ Excalibur – EM&S The Easy Way in 15 minutes Having recently left the protected environment of full...
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Microsoft Cloud User Group – 23rd of February
February 23rd @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm 6:00pm – Networking 6:30 – Steven Harwood – Azure ARM’d and Ready In this session we will cover Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and the new capabilities it brings to...
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