Hey Folks, It's Me!
Hi there! My name is Channing Heffney & I am a Business Program Manager within the release excellence team for customer service and support. My role is to ensure our global support teams are ready to support the next excellent features and/or product released by the Skype for Business product team. I wanted to share some information about custom policies based on questions many of you have had. Check out my recent blog posting, here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/Custom-Policies-for-Skype-for-Business-Online/ba-p/53824 If you have questions about policies in the future, I'd love to see you post them in this community.Skype for Business Mac client Preference Settings
Certain features and behaviors that are available to Skype for Business Mac clients are determined by preference settings on the client. You can standardize the settings for Skype for Business Mac in your organization by configuring preferences for the application and then deploying these preferences to users on the network. The Skype for Business Mac preferences are found in: ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.SkypeForBusiness/Data/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.SkypeForBusiness.plist Key Type Value Description autoDetectAutoDicoveryURLs Bool 0 = manual server configuration 1 = automatic server detection (default) Specify how Skype for Business identifies the transport and server to use during sign-in. If you enable this policy setting, you must specify internalAutoDiscoveryURL and externalAutoDiscoveryURL internalAutoDiscoveryURL String Full autodiscover URL Internal autodiscover URL externalAutoDiscoveryURL String Full autodiscover URL External autodiscover URL httpProxyDomain String HTTP Proxy Domain httpProxyUserName String HTTP Proxy Username httpProxyPassword String HTTP Proxy Password trustedDomainList Array List of trusted domains for HTTP redirects autoAcceptTimeout Number 300 (default) Auto-Accept timeout for users without Server-side Conversation History. warnWhenUnknownLocationForE911 Bool 0 = Disabled 1 = Enabled Warns the user when dialing an emergency number from an unknown location sipAddress String The SIP address (Email) used to sign-in to Skype for Business userName String The UPN (UserName) used to sign-in to Skype for Business An example of how to modify the trustedDomainList follows: defaults write com.microsoft.SkypeForBusiness trustedDomainList -array-add "lync.com" to add a single item or for multiples defaults write com.microsoft.SkypeForBusiness trustedDomainList -array-add "lync.com" “abc.com” “test.org” Usage of the defaults command can be found at the following link: https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/defaults.1.htmlNew Skype for Business on Mac (Insider) build is available forApril 2017 with #1 requested feature
Hey everyone - normally you hear from me when we release a GA version of the Mac client. However, the asks for File Transfer during chats has been very high - I would rate this as our #1 ask at this time. So I am happy to announce that an insider fast build with the beta of file transfer is NOW available! I can tell you that I am testing here internally with this build - pinging my long suffering colleagues here at Microsoft with file transfers :-) Remember - Insider Fast builds are for those who are willing to test early - you can expect that you might run into bugs, etc. If that does not scare you away - you should read Richard's blog on how to get on Insider builds.Skype for Business on Mac - AMA Summary is posted!
Before you all go out there enjoying the weekend, check out the Skype for Business on Mac Ask Microsoft Anything 'AMA' Summary that was posted in the blog session today. It was a fantastic event - stay tuned for more upcoming Skype for Business AMAs! Have a request for a topic? Post below. We want to give you the content & experts you are looking for!Enabling Modern Auth in SfB Server 2015
Hi all, We are embarking on the modern auth journey and are looking to tackle Skype. Currently we are running SfB Server 2015 on-prem with the latest CU. Can anyone confirm/deny if Basic auth still works after you enable Modern Auth in SfB? We still have a good amount of older Macs running Lync 2011 and also have some conference phones that don't have any documentation on whether or not they can handle Modern auth. Thanks!
