Jeff Schertz : Jeff Schertz's Blog. August 2. 6, 2. 01. Jeff Schertz · The next round of quarterly Skype for Business Users Group meetings has been announced and scheduled starting this month. Event Details. This quarter’s event will be conducted in our familiar two- session format: The first session will take a look at the upcoming Skype for Business Mac client as well as review the various Skype for Business Preview Programs available today. The second session will be a sneak peak at the Microsoft Ignite 2. Industry Experts will be on- site to deliver these presentations and help answer any questions related to Skype for Business. Food, beverages and additional door prizes will be provided courtesy of the Skype for Business Users Group and its official sponsors. ![]() You can also use apt-get install package, or aptitude install package. For simple package installation, they do essentially the same thing. As you will see later, the.![]() Western U. S. Central U. S. Southern U. S. Eastern U. S. For a full schedule of regional events the Skype for Business Users Group Meetups page lists all planned event locations with links to the associated registration page for each regional group. For anyone who is not yet a member and would like to participate simply visit the site listed above and register for your local group, this will automatically create a new user account for you to use again for all future event registrations. Chicago Event. As usual I will be hosting the Chicago event downtown. Food will be ready at 5: 3. Date. Location. Address. Tuesday, Sept 1. 3th 5: 3. PM – Food and Networking 6: 0. PM – Presentation Kickoff. Chicago Users Group. Microsoft Technology Center 2. East Randolph Drive, Suite 2. Chicago, IL 6. 06. Filed under Lync, Skype for Business · Tagged with Events. July 8, 2. 01. 6 by Jeff Schertz · As outlined in this previous article a wide array of Polycom phones are now supported directly with Skype for Business Online in Office 3. In the past dealing with device updates has been covered in several articles for the different device families and models. These same concepts still generally apply when using the devices with Skype for Business Online but the configuration and management is slightly different. As we take steps to fulfill the. We support the creation and adoption. TELACU et al. state that it would be very costly to knock on a customer’s door. Pluggable databases, affectionately called PDBs for the remainder of this chapter, are a major new concept in the Oracle database and the outstanding new feature to. While separate provisioning servers can still be utilized with the various 3. PIP devices, the guidance across all of the previous articles is focused on traditional on- premises deployments of Lync and Skype for Business server platforms. But what about the growing number of environments where none of those components exist and literally everything outside of the clients and end- user devices are simply leveraging the Office 3. This article addresses these online- only tenants with guidance on how to manage IP phone firmware without using any additional management solutions. Keep in mind that in the future some of these management tasks may become even easier as with Microsoft’s recent acquisition of some portions of Event Zero’s UC Commander platform as that could materialize into more direct control of Polycom UCS configuration parameters inside of the Office 3. Background. With the introduction of official support for Qualified IP Phones in the online platform there arose a need to offer some sort of firmware management capability that resembles what the existing Lync and Skype for Business server installations already offered. This is handled by the native Device Update service which is already part of Skype for Business Server. The main difference though is that while the on- premises server platform the configuration is performed through a combination of Control Panel setting and Management Shell cmdlets, Office 3. Administration Portal. There is a limited subset of cmdlets defined for online tenants which do not match the vast array of on- premises server cmdlets. Office 3. 65 administrators today are given control of only a few IP Phone- specific options which includes the ability to disable the default in- band firmware updates behavior. Microsoft controls what firmware version this will be so an administrator can only control whether or not they want the officially approved and supported firmware automatically deployed to their VVX phones, which is enabled by default. It is not possible to select or upload a desired version using the device update service in Office 3. To utilize any version other than the currently approved release the automatic update behavior must manually be disabled. Default Behavior. At the time this article was written only the Polycom VVX IP phones will automatically receive device updates when registered with a Skype for Business Online user account. The Trio 8. Unified Communications Software (UCS) family, does not yet receive updates from the Skype for Business Online device update server. Lync Phone Edition devices also do not receive firmware updates when registered directly to Skype for Business Online. As outlined in Adam Jacob’s article earlier this year a pair of new cmdlets were added to the Skype for Business Online Power. Shell Module for controlling some behavior of the IP Phones. These new Get- Cs. IPPhone. Policy and Set- Cs. IPPhone. Policy cmdlets are only available using the online management shell. Using Skype for Business Online Management Shell issue the Get- Cs. IPPhone. Policy cmdlet to review the following default configuration for any Office 3. Note that the Enable. Device. Update parameter is set to True by default. Get- Cs. IPPhone. Policy. When a VVX phone is registered with a user account in this online tenant running at least the minimum required 5. A firmware version it will automatically check with the device update server when signing in or booting up with previously entered cached credentials. Shortly after a successful registration the phone may display a message that a new firmware update is available. This will happen if the phone is currently running a version which does not exactly match the version that Microsoft currently has published on their servers. As is always the case with the device update process it does not matter if existing version is older or newer, meaning the phone can upgrade or downgrade based on its version compared to the version advertised by the server. So if the phone has detected that a different version is available on the server then an alert notification message will be shown on the Warnings screen, which is reported on the Alert icon on the top- left corner of the home screen. For example the phone used to capture these screenshots is a VVX 6. Lync and Skype for Business environments. Understand that Microsoft publishes only the most recently qualified version for Skype for Business Online. While updated versions are released for Skype for Business on- premises deployments often not every individual release goes through the complete online qualification process. The point here is that the most current version that is both qualified and fully supported by Microsoft and Polycom is what should be used on O3. Leaving the device update service enabled is currently the best practice for keeping the phones on that specific approved version. As shown above the qualified version at the time of writing this article is 5. So what will happen here is that as soon as this phone is left inactive for 1. Also note that the Reboot button on the above screen can be used to immediately trigger the update process as apposed to waiting for the inactivity timeout to be reached. The Lync Device Update menu shown below can be used to see the last time the phone checked in with the device update service. Home > Settings > Status > Diagnostics > Lync Device Updates. Disable Device Updates. To allow phone to run on a different version then the device update behavior can be disabled by editing the online IP phone policy that Polycom UCS devices natively understand. Configure Policy. Using the Skype for Business Online Management Shell issue the following Set- Cs. IPPhone. Policy cmdlet to change the device update behavior. Set- Cs. IPPhone. Policy - Enable. Device. Update $false Then run the Get- Cs. IPPhone. Policy cmdlet to verify the change has been applied to the policy. The following cmdlet example simply shows how to filter out the other parameters. Get- Cs. IPPhone. Policy | Select- Object Enable.
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