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So at Ignite Albert Kooiman and I had the opportunity to re-unite and present some more details around the new Office 365 video interoperability service both Polycom and Microsoft are co-developing. This was a 300 level session where Albert and I started with a general overview and then went into more architectural details on this new service […]
Earlier this year Polycom and Microsoft jointly announced a new joint cloud video interoperability service. The goal here is giving Microsoft’s Skype for Business Online users a way to schedule meetings with the ability to easily add video room systems from vendors like Cisco, Polycom, LifeSize etc. You know, the kinds that either don’t play nice with Skype […]
Late last year Polycom released UCS 5.4.0 for their VVX portfolio, this was a major milestone as it introduced the ability to register to Skype for Business Online and Microsoft’s new Cloud PBX service. Whilst the VVX handsets are the first and (as I write) only 3PIP devices to support Microsoft’s online authentication mechanism “Org-ID”, the […]
Update: Further testing suggests that there is in fact no TLS validation performed against the Match URI, instead the TLS validation is performed against the Trusted Application Pool name. In my example below both the Trusted Application Pool name and Match URI are the same. However if your Trusted Application Pool name is different to the […]
It’s great to see the momentum behind Lync (now Skype for Business). I’m specifically referring to businesses with long-time installments of PBX(s) are realizing the traditional telephony functionality which is now available within Microsoft Enterprise Voice (in this I’m referring to Skype for Business telephony). Admittedly there are some gaps, but these are now niche […]
I thought I’d share a video I was asked to put together that illustrated Lync client behavior when a user is migrated from a Lync On-Premises deployment to Lync Online. Prior to executing the PowerShell below I needed to complete a “Split-Domain” Lync deployment which I covered in a separate article here. PowerShell commands: $creds=Get-Credential | […]
