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.htmlSkype for Business- Mac Client Access Permissions
Hello, We are using Skype for Business company-wide and our Mac users are having some challenges. I know the Mac client doesn't respect the Org-wide meeting settings for who can bypass the lobby, be made a presenter, etc so, I have had all of my Mac users set their Access Permissions in Outlook. Many users wish to use just the dial-in functionality with some of their clients so we have passed around the screenshot below to ensure that people dialing in can bypass the lobby. The challenge is: some people are having an issue that even though they click "Remember Settings", they are being asked for a pin when dialing in from conference rooms.Default Status Message is NOTE?
Since a while, the default status Message on the S4B MacOS Client is "Note". If the user hits the field (edit) and do nothing, it sets the Status to note. Others reported, that they didn't even touch the Status Message, and when I asked them, the answer was "What is that Status Message anyway". But there status is also "Note" now. I wrote a https://hochwald.net/skype-business-mac-client-status-message-issue/ about that. The https://hochwald.net/skype-business-mac-client-status-message-issue/ contains a few pictures and more details. Anyone knows a workaround for that? I was unable to find a managed preference for the Status message (And this isn't the reason for our issue). Did some tests on a fresh installed (not managed installlation) with the sam e result.New 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.
Unable to join Skype meetings anymore
Dear Community, since some days I'm not able to join Skype meetings anymore. When joining a meeting I got a video call back from the organiser and, if I accept the call, the meetings keeps to be in status "connecting". Other participants see me in the meeting, but in reality I am in a "connecting" state. The very strange thing is that when I try to join a meeting I got this video call back from the organiser: I never experienced such behaviour before an, moreover, I did not change any configuration settings in my Skype for business. Additional information: If I try to access via Skype app from iPhone, sometimes hangs in "connecting" state, some other times makes me enter the meeting, but with no audio (I cannot neither speak or listen). I already tried to uninstall and re-install it, but nothing changed. Anybody is experiencing similar issues? I am a MAC user and the Skype version is the following: 16.8.196 Sierra version: 10.12.5 Best regards, Alessandro
Skype for business recorded black screen
Hello, I have recorded (not locally) a conference using skype for business (I am the host), during the whole session I could see and here the screens the presenter shared. When done, I have checked the video recording, and its all black screen. Two hours of black screen (117MB), audio was recorded, video didn't. Presenter used a Mac laptop and again, I could see the share during the whole session. Any Idea what could go wrong?
During the install for Skype for Business Server 2015, IIS crashes occasionally .
Hello, During the install for Skype for Business Server 2015, IIS crashes occasionally with the following error message. Any idea how to get this fixed? "Prerequisite not satisfied: Before you install Skype for Business Server 2015, you must Install an update for Windows Server 2012 R2. For details about the update, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 2982006, "IIS crashes occasionally when a request is sent to a default document in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2" at https://lnkd.in/fEWuCAD.
SfB2016 Mac Client, Keychain, and Clean Uninstall
I've recently been building an uninstall script for Skype for Business 2016 for Mac, using the steps at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3202833/how-to-do-a-clean-uninstallation-of-skype-for-business-on-mac as my process template. In the last step, instructions for deleting SFB specific keychain entries is listed. From my test Mac, it looks like these entries are unique on each users keychain. In cases where the machine might have multiple user keychains (like multiple AD integrated logins), I don't think I'll have access to the SfB keychain entries until a user logs into the machine. Can I trust the Skype for Business client to handle those old keychain entries properly in the case of uninstall/reinstall during launch? Will it clean up/overwrite what it finds for each user's keychain? Or is it better practice to build and deploy a keychain cleanup script that runs for each user during first login after the uninstall/reinstall has completed?
