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Posted on March 21, 2023December 19, 2023

Deploying the Windows Accounts plug-in for Chrome to support Single Sign-on to Microsoft 365

The title of this post is a mouthful. I understand that.

Fortunately, the steps are pretty straightforward.

When working with transitioning organizations to Azure AD, it’s important to give the consumers of said systems the best possible experiences from a sign-on perspective.… [ Continue reading ]

Posted on May 11, 2020May 12, 2020

Manually Disable Skype for Business COM Add-In for Outlook

Today, I was asked about manually disabling the Skype of Business Outlook plug-in for a customer where users have both Skype and Teams clients and are configured in Islands mode.

This is what I came up with.  You can save it and drop it in a computer startup script as well as a user logon (since the script modifies both HKLM and HKCU).… [ Continue reading ]

Posted on August 12, 2019April 23, 2020

Disabling Teams AutoStart

Here’s a fun one … Disabling Teams auto-startup.  Imagine this scenario:

  • You haven’t trained your service desk on how to answer/troubleshoot/manage Teams help desk calls
  • You’ve configured restrictions on who can create Teams
  • You’ve deployed the new Office ProPlus update with Teams integrated.
… [ Continue reading ]
Posted on April 11, 2018

Configuring Skype for Business to prompt for audio device

This evening, I found myself needing to configure Skype for Business clients to prompt the user for the audio device when joining.  The registry key to control this behavior, AllowOverridingDeviceAtJoinTime, has existed for quite some time:

For Communicator, the setting was located at HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Communicator. … [ Continue reading ]

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