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Richard T Schwendiman
Iron Contributor
Nov 16, 2016

New Skype for Business on Mac (Insider) build is available!

We have released a new build for Skype for Business for Mac client using Microsoft Auto Update. What’s new in this release? Group management is available for O365 and SfB Server 2016 users (thi...
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Brian Payst's avatar
Brian Payst
Brass Contributor
Nov 18, 2016

Hi Richard - that option is no longer available, the setting has disappeared from the client preferences. See attached screenshot

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Brian Payst
Brass Contributor
Nov 18, 2016

Just did the Office Insider Fast update to 16.1.436 and it's still not available as a preference setting nor are single window chats enabled.

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    Kam Foo Aw
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    Nov 21, 2016

    Brian, does your SFB deployment has server side conversation history enabled?  One way to find out if this is fully enabled is to take a look at the SFB Mac log and look for "<property name="conversationHistory">Disabled</property>".  Don't worry about the word "Disabled".  This is the inband policy to tell the Mac client that the conversationHistory is available and give user option to enable it.  If you find this string, you Mac client should have the UI option to have separate windows or not.  If you don't find the string, that means that that server side conversation history is not yet properly enabled.

     

    • Brian Payst's avatar
      Brian Payst
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 21, 2016

      I'm not seeing that string, but we were pretty certain that is enabled. What attributes should we be checking in Skype for Business Online ?

      • Eric Price's avatar
        Eric Price
        Copper Contributor
        Nov 21, 2016

        I am also lacking that string in my logs, but I spoke with our Skype Engineers and we are 100% certain that it is in fact set up correctly in our environment.

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      Eric Price
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 21, 2016

      Where would one find that particular log?

      • Kam Foo Aw's avatar
        Kam Foo Aw
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        Nov 21, 2016

        In SFB Mac, go to Preferences/General/Collect and archive logs.  It will take a few minutes to take a snapshot of the logs and generate a zip file with title prefix "SfbMacLogs" in the Downloads folder.  Open the zip file and use a text editor to open sfbmac.log.

         

        In this particular scenario, I would suggest restarting SFB Mac first and then collect logs.  Then you will have a smaller log file to scan.

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