Leon's Lync & SfB Online Place

O365 SfB & Lync Online Support in the UK

Crumbs, the online/busy status of my Lync client isn't the same as my Outlook calendar

I don't hear this much, but I do hear it from customers. There is a trend, nowadays, to have a...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 05/18/2015

"I hate the look of the current Skype for Business client and I want my old Lync 2013 back!!"

I hear that loads of times. I myself have converted my Skype for Business (SfB) client BACK into a...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 05/18/2015

It's been a long time coming! And Skype for Business / Lync Online change.

Crumbs, I haven't posted here in ages. I'll have to start doing it again, posting issues and...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 05/18/2015

Skype and Lync online integration

I've had a load of customers who have been struggling to integrate Skype IM / Voice with their Lync...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 07/11/2013

Hybrid Lync 2013 and Lync online (aka shared SIP domain space)

I've had quite a lot of questions on this subject. Mainly around how to set it up and what I need to...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 05/15/2013

Where are all the troubleshooting logs in Lync 2013??!

Frustrating I know. We have all been used to going to c:\users<myuser>\tracing, and its all...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 05/15/2013

Why won't my Lync 2013 client install?

Ok, we all have our new shiny installs of Lync 2013 client with the recent Office service updates....

Author: Leon Condon Date: 05/15/2013

O365 Lync online IM isn't working from OWA

Sometimes we get this one through to escalation services: "Instant Messaging isn't available right...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 05/15/2013

Non-Domain joined machines with Lync clients unable to connect using ADFS

Right, So this is a ADFS issue, a customer is using an ADFS service to validate Lync users on their...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 07/17/2012

Some very useful O365 powershell scripts

You may have seen my previous blog on how to connect to O365 with powershell. Now there are some...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 07/17/2012

To use the O365 Desktop Setup or not?

So, you've bought O365 for your enterprise environment, congratulations! As part of the installation...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 07/17/2012

Useful reference on how Lync handles profile photos

Might not all apply to the world of Lync online but a great start. Gives you a great frame of...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 06/27/2012

Setting O365 user's passwords not to expire

A commonly asked question. How do I set my user's passwords never to expire? It can't be done though...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 06/26/2012

Conversation history from O365 Lync into Outlook suddenly stops

Whilst looking into Lync O365 issues, sometimes we cross the "border" into general exchange issues....

Author: Leon Condon Date: 06/11/2012

Federation problems with vanity domains and other tenants

Most of the issues I see are when the federation system hasn't been set up correctly. This...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 06/07/2012

Lync client refuses to connect to a peer to peer voice conversation

Ok, so had a very strange case, which was resolved. The customer had a user which could not connect...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 06/06/2012

Changing the behaviour of the Lync Online client using Group Policies & Powershell

I came across this set of documents whilst looking into a customer's case where they needed to...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 06/01/2012

Moving from Communicator R2 to Lync Online Client and your installation is failing?

A recent case I came across that I thought I would share. The customer was moving from Communicator...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 05/31/2012

Getting & Reading the tracing logs for a Lync Online Client

A MOSDAL log is a large collection of logs from different parts of the Microsoft Online suite as...

Author: Leon Condon Date: 05/31/2012