skype for business

A cautionary reminder when firewall rules are being set up for Skype for Business, that 443 or 443/TCP or 443/TCP/SIP does NOT mean HTTPS.  Honestly, I don’t think I’ve met a firewall yet that supports Microsoft’s 443/SIP for a so my rule request is very specifically 443/TCP, unless the required rule, like for the Reverse Proxy actually state HTTPS, require 443/TCP the rule ye be.   MS Firewall Rule Requirements   The above link goes to…

Polycom VVX 5.5.1 firmware was released along with BToE 3.4.0.0, Polycom VVX Firmware Download Site, I’ve been beta testing and beating up these VVX builds (lost count, probably 15+) since March, so I’ve been anticipating this day for awhile.  Soooo many features being added that I’m just giddy. The biggest item in my opinion is the QoE reports generated by the phones and feed to the Skype Monitoring servers.  Yah, we can now see how the…

Thou Shall Not Let Internal Users Connect to External Edge Interface Been involved with UC for a while, long before it was called UC, and over time we’ve all developed cardinal rules when it comes to deployments.  One that me, and I know several others have adhered to “Thou shall not let Internal Users connect to External Edge Interface”.  Right!?! Times are a changing, and rules are often made to be broken, add the one…

Skype for Business Hybrid – Part 1 I’m sure there will be many more parts to this as O365 is ever “evolving”, euphemism for “it’s bloody different every time I go in there…” An issue I recently hit when trying to connect an OnPrem Skype environment to a company’s Online counterpart, aka setting up Skype4b Hybrid, I ran into this lovely error: Get-CsWebTicket : Failed to connect live id servers.  Make sure proxy is enabled…