SRS V2 externally hosted meetings

Hi Anders

Happy to inform you the "hole" is now gone!:-)

Can't see that MS has created a knowlegde base article on this yet so I just include the text from the closing of the premier support ticket:

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Symptom:

The SRSv2 UI only showed a “…” button, instead of a “Join” button, when receiving meeting invitations from remote parties that did not have TNEF enabled for contoso.com.

Cause:

The calendar processing rules for the SRSv2 room mailbox did remove the meeting content. With that, the meeting join links got removed too and the SRSv2 device could not identify that the meeting is an online meeting.

Resolution:

Setting “Set-CalendarProcessing meetingroom101@contoso.com -DeleteComments $false” resolved the issue.

More information:

The Skype Room System v2 tries to extract a meeting link out of a meeting invitation in several ways.

First (with TNEF enabled), we are searching through the non-viewable content of the meeting invitation. With TNEF enabled on the sender side and when sending the invitation using the Skype for Business Add-in, the meeting invitation meta data will contain meeting join information. That is the reason, why it always worked throughout our testings, when TNEF was enabled.

As an additional step, we are also trying to parse the viewable content of the meeting invitation. The SRSv2 code is searching for links, using http://, https:// and the HTML tag <a href>. If we find links, we try to identify if they are normal links to the Internet, or if the link is indeed a meeting join link. In case we identify a valid join link, the UI of the SRSv2 console will show the Join button.

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/ivar