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In order to help our customers (and their users) fully transition from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams, I’ve updated the Disable-SkypePlugin script that I published back in 2020 and put it on the PowerShell Gallery.
As we encounter more and more customers still working remotely, helping enable them use the most modern tools (like Microsoft Teams) is critically important. … [ Continue reading ]
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 ]
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 ]
Last year, I had a project that involved migrating a large customer from Office 365 Dedicated to Office 365 GCC (multi-tenant). While Exchange hybrid moves were possible for the mailboxes, we were unable to perform the necessary hybrid migration configuration for Lync to migrate users. … [ Continue reading ]