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kfrancis
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Re: Remove existing MSI versions of Office when upgrading to Office 365 ProPlus
Tested it yesterday afternoon and it works! Need to use the Office Deployment Tool with the switch specified in the docs. The generic download from portal.office.com does not include this functionality.4.2KViews0likes0CommentsRemove existing MSI versions of Office when upgrading to Office 365 ProPlus
Anyone had a chance to test this? Saw it and had to share. "To help you uninstall versions of Office that use Windows Installer (MSI) as the installation technology, you can use the Office Deployment Tool and specify the RemoveMSI element in your configuration.xml file." https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployOffice/upgrade-from-msi-version4.3KViews0likes2CommentsVoting Buttons in Outlook
Just got a question from an end user. An external sender is using Outlook to include Voting Buttons (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-polls-in-email-messages-and-review-the-results-4d10e079-8ea1-489a-a79c-18cb71ae12dd) but when the end user receives the email, there are no Voting Buttons. Is this the expected behavior or should Voting Buttons appear in emails from outside senders?1.8KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Move-CsUser : Index was outside the bounds of the array.
Looks like it was timing. For some reason, it tooks two and a half days after licensing the accounts, but they moved fine this weekend with no complaints. Looks like I'll be licensing folks well in advance of moving them instead of the day before! Thanks for the help, Alexander!8.1KViews0likes1CommentMove-CsUser : Index was outside the bounds of the array.
Trying to move on-premises users to online and keep getting the error "Move-CsUser : Index was outside the bounds of the array." right after "VERBOSE: Validating user [sip:user@contoso.com] online, for on premises to online move." The user was licensed for Skype4B Online yesterday and MSCOSTANDARD has a status of "PendingInput." I'm specifying the identity, the target, the credentials, the hostedmigrationoverrideurl, and the proxypool. This same command worked the other day. I also can't move users in the CSCP using the tenant admin account (which has worked in the past). Any ideas?Solved8.2KViews0likes4CommentsRe: Modern Authentication in Skype for Business Online
Hi, Alexander. Thanks for the link. I'm still a little unsure if anything appears to the user as being different. Will I need to update any documentation for users? Or does everything look the same and just use a newer/better technology? Thanks!2.6KViews0likes0CommentsRe: New Skype4B Hybrid Setup - On-Prem has no Presence for Online Users
Sorry for the absence. Real life getting in the way of work stuff. We have about 6,000 dirsynced accounts in the on-premises SIP domain and another 23K that exist only in the cloud and are not dirsynced in a separate SIP domain space. We updated all the DNS entries for the cloud SIP domain (lyncdiscoverinternal, lyncdiscover, _sipinternaltls._tcp, etc.) and the cloud accounts stopped being able to sign in (or at least my test account). It looked to me like it was trying to authenticate to the on-premises domain controllers but I might be mistaken. We removed the DNS entries so that accounts with the SIP domain for the cloud environment pointed to Skype4B Online when logging in and I was able to log in with in a cloud only account again. Now, the cloud users and the on-premises users can see each other's presence if they are in the contact list, or if you have opened a conversation window with them at some point (regardless of whether you send an actual message). If you just use the search feature to find a new contact, you get "Presense Unknown." I'm not sure I understand what's going on but it's better than before. I think my next steps are to observe what happens when I migrate on-premises users to the cloud. I can't migrate (existing) cloud users on-premises because they are not dirsynced (that's another battle for another day). Thanks for your help and being understanding of my (very) strange setup.7.9KViews0likes0CommentsRe: New Skype4B Hybrid Setup - On-Prem has no Presence for Online Users
Missed this comment before I posted just a minute ago. So, the CLOUD users will need to be enabled on-prem, moved to the on-prem pool, and then moved back online? There's about 30,000 of them but if it works on a test group, I can gin up a PowerShell script.8KViews0likes1CommentRe: New Skype4B Hybrid Setup - On-Prem has no Presence for Online Users
Hi, Mark. Embarassingly, I spaced on adding the cloud SIP domains to the On-Premises topology. I added them and am crossing my fingers. On the Online side of things, I do see the SIP domains for the on-prem environment listed under Organization domains in the Skype4B Admin Center's dashboard (along with the cloud SIP domains). We are syncing our AD to Azure AD but the user's from the cloud SIP domain are created in the cloud and not synced from AD. The users with the On-Prem SIP domains are created in AD and synced to Azure AD. Yes, it's very, very strange. No, it's not my fault. :) Working on trying to unify and standardize the on-prem and cloud environments which have historically been very, very separate. I have a question aout the enable-csuser command. I tried it on my account on-premises and get an error: "enable-csuser : Cannot move user in enable operation. Use the Move user cmdlet instead."8KViews0likes2CommentsRe: New Skype4B Hybrid Setup - On-Prem has no Presence for Online Users
Hi, Vincent. No, the online users have never been homed in the on-prem environment. One exception is that I can move my own account back and forth. When my mailbox is in the Online environment, I can communicate with the On-Prem folks and presence works fine both ways. I haven't done much with Skype4b since the Lync 2010 and Lync 2013 days so my skills are definitely rusty. I believe we have the DNS set up correctly (5061, etc.) and set up the hybrid per this guide to the best of my abilities: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2015/12/23/step-by-step-skype-for-business-2015-hybrid-configuration/ Thanks! Thanks!!8KViews0likes0CommentsNew Skype4B Hybrid Setup - On-Prem has no Presence for Online Users
Just set up a new Skype4B hybrid (first time in yeeeeeeeeeeers). Attaching an on-premises pool with one set of SIP addresses to a Skype4B Online environment with another set of domains for SIP addresses. Online users can see the presence info and communicate with On-Prem users. On-Prem users can respond back to Online users if the Online user initiates the conversation. On-Prem users cannot see presence info for Online users and get an error stating "We couldn't reach [user] to send this message." Event Viewer says: "A SIP request made by Lync failed in an unexpected manner (status code 80ef0194). More information is contained in the following technical data:" and " Response Data: 404 Not Found ms-diagnostics: 1003;reason="User does not exist";destination="kfrancis@wildcats.unh.edu";source="sip.unh.edu";OriginalPresenceState="0";CurrentPresenceState="0";MeInsideUser="Yes";ConversationInitiatedBy="6";SourceNetwork="5";RemotePartyCanDoIM="Yes";RetriedInvite="true" " If I move an On-Premises user to the cloud, they can see all the users.
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