The Skype for Business (Lync) apps are one of the ubiquitous aspect of the product. Mobility is cross platform (Android, IOS and Windows are supported), has specific requirements and (in Skype for Business) adds some specific limits for clients on authentication, security and features. As part of the default server features, mobility is now both easier and more critical to understand. In this session, we will see what has been made available for the mobile users and what will be released. Configurations, requirements and deployment suggestions will be explained for on-premises, Cloud and hybrid deployments
Skype for business understanding what is new, preview or unchangedFabrizio Volpe
After seven months from the release date of Skype for Business, it is a good moment for an assessment. We will see what is new, what is available as a preview and what has not changed from Lync Server 2013. The session will be a high-level overview of the innovations in the product. We will talk about topics Video Interop Server role, improvements in server management and voice and meetings capabilities in Office 365 that are now in preview (Skype Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Conferencing and Cloud PBX).
Microsoft Skype for Business Clients Presentation - From AtidanDavid J Rosenthal
No matter WHAT kind of feature you need, WHO you are, WHERE you are, or WHICH device you use, Skype for Business client portfolio is aimed to help people BE and DO better together
The Skype Summit is a multi-vendor event showcasing the latest features and open ecosystem of Skype for Business Online and Office 365 powered by AudioCodes, Bridge Communications, Computertalk, Concurrency, Orion Communications, Pexip, and Unified Communications.com.
Enhance Business Communications using Skype for BusinessTuan Yang
With Skype for Business, you can simplify your infrastructure with one platform for calling, conferencing, video, and sharing. Implementation of Skype for Business can help your organisation increase staff productivity, improve collaboration and lower cost.
Agenda:
» Overview of Skype for Business
» Connect with people inside and outside your company
» Web based Conference Meetings
» Integration with other Microsoft Applications (Outlook, Word, etc.)
Skype for business understanding what is new, preview or unchangedFabrizio Volpe
After seven months from the release date of Skype for Business, it is a good moment for an assessment. We will see what is new, what is available as a preview and what has not changed from Lync Server 2013. The session will be a high-level overview of the innovations in the product. We will talk about topics Video Interop Server role, improvements in server management and voice and meetings capabilities in Office 365 that are now in preview (Skype Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Conferencing and Cloud PBX).
Microsoft Skype for Business Clients Presentation - From AtidanDavid J Rosenthal
No matter WHAT kind of feature you need, WHO you are, WHERE you are, or WHICH device you use, Skype for Business client portfolio is aimed to help people BE and DO better together
The Skype Summit is a multi-vendor event showcasing the latest features and open ecosystem of Skype for Business Online and Office 365 powered by AudioCodes, Bridge Communications, Computertalk, Concurrency, Orion Communications, Pexip, and Unified Communications.com.
Enhance Business Communications using Skype for BusinessTuan Yang
With Skype for Business, you can simplify your infrastructure with one platform for calling, conferencing, video, and sharing. Implementation of Skype for Business can help your organisation increase staff productivity, improve collaboration and lower cost.
Agenda:
» Overview of Skype for Business
» Connect with people inside and outside your company
» Web based Conference Meetings
» Integration with other Microsoft Applications (Outlook, Word, etc.)
Presentation slides on Microsoft's Unified Communication solution presented at the Exchange Summit, 16th December 2010 at Technology Park Malaysia, presented by Sistem RKK. www.srkk.com
Microsoft Directors, Patrick Payette and Jonathan Sides are talking about Microsoft Cloud PBX. Making the PBX move to the Cloud is very popular conversation these two are having with customers and peers. They’re joining Instant Insight to talk about why this conversation/debate is so popular and what advantages they’re seeing by making that transition. Cloud PBX is the future—definitely a conversation worth listening to help you shape some of your PBX goals going forward.
Experts from Western Union, Pexip, and Vyopta team up to show you how to grow your Unified Communications network while avoiding some of the most common pitfalls.
Watch the whole webinar here: http://www.vyopta.com/blog/resources/webinars/overcoming-enterprise-uc-challenges/
Primend Pilveseminar - Office 365 Updates & Skype For BusinessPrimend
Skype for Business ja Office 365 uuendused - Tõnis Tikerpäe
Aasta alguses ühendas Microsoft kõik oma sõnumivahetuse ja telekonverentside platvormid Skype'i kaubamärgi alla. Aprillis saabus Office 365 portaali uus seadmete haldamise funktsionaalsus sh. nutiseadmed.
To better understand the evolution of the changing workplace and how different forms of communication are being used in business, Skype commissioned a survey through Incites Research, which surveyed 1,000 technology-enabled professionals in the US, including 500 business end users and 500 technology decision makers across small, medium and large size businesses.
Pexip and Microsoft - Certified for Skype for Business ServerGraham Walsh
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Slide deck of the presentation I did for Collaboration with Skype for Business and Outlook user awareness project for the Knit Cluster of Hirdaramani Group in Sri Lanka.
“Microservices” have become a trendy development strategy. Hosting and running such services used to be pretty painful... but here comes Service Fabric! Let’s take a closer look at this platform, its different development models and all the features it offers, and not only for microservices!
Presentation slides on Microsoft's Unified Communication solution presented at the Exchange Summit, 16th December 2010 at Technology Park Malaysia, presented by Sistem RKK. www.srkk.com
Microsoft Directors, Patrick Payette and Jonathan Sides are talking about Microsoft Cloud PBX. Making the PBX move to the Cloud is very popular conversation these two are having with customers and peers. They’re joining Instant Insight to talk about why this conversation/debate is so popular and what advantages they’re seeing by making that transition. Cloud PBX is the future—definitely a conversation worth listening to help you shape some of your PBX goals going forward.
Experts from Western Union, Pexip, and Vyopta team up to show you how to grow your Unified Communications network while avoiding some of the most common pitfalls.
Watch the whole webinar here: http://www.vyopta.com/blog/resources/webinars/overcoming-enterprise-uc-challenges/
Primend Pilveseminar - Office 365 Updates & Skype For BusinessPrimend
Skype for Business ja Office 365 uuendused - Tõnis Tikerpäe
Aasta alguses ühendas Microsoft kõik oma sõnumivahetuse ja telekonverentside platvormid Skype'i kaubamärgi alla. Aprillis saabus Office 365 portaali uus seadmete haldamise funktsionaalsus sh. nutiseadmed.
To better understand the evolution of the changing workplace and how different forms of communication are being used in business, Skype commissioned a survey through Incites Research, which surveyed 1,000 technology-enabled professionals in the US, including 500 business end users and 500 technology decision makers across small, medium and large size businesses.
Pexip and Microsoft - Certified for Skype for Business ServerGraham Walsh
Pexip Infinity certified for Skype for Business Server providing Video interoperability from standards based H.323 and SIP video to and from Skype for Business. Including Skype Room System and Surface Hub Interop. Microsoft Teams inteorp coming soon.
Slide deck of the presentation I did for Collaboration with Skype for Business and Outlook user awareness project for the Knit Cluster of Hirdaramani Group in Sri Lanka.
“Microservices” have become a trendy development strategy. Hosting and running such services used to be pretty painful... but here comes Service Fabric! Let’s take a closer look at this platform, its different development models and all the features it offers, and not only for microservices!
In this session, Sam will give an overview of the new Hybrid Connections feature. With this feature, customers can easily connect their cloud services with their existing on premises resources. Sam will demonstrate the various capabilities of this new service and will discuss the advanced features, such as load balancing, Always On connectivity, connection cardinality, automation and performance.
MN Enterprise Mobile User Group April 2015 MeetingRBA
RBA's (www.rbaconsulting.com) Enterprise Mobile Technology Lead, Joe Koletar, presented at the April 16 Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group on the topic of Synchronizing Mobile Data Using Couchbase and Azure.
Deploy, Scale and Manage your Microsoft Investments with AWSAmazon Web Services
AWS Summit 2014 Perth - Breakout 1
Many IT professionals are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy, scale and manage fully supported Microsoft Windows Server workloads and Windows Server applications such as SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server that are fully supported on the AWS Cloud. Attend this session to find out:
- How to determine your licensing strategy in the cloud
- Modernizing your Windows 2003 Servers applications before End of Support
- AWS .net benefits and services and many more
An in-depth guide to VDI infrastructure delivering the best desktop/BYOD experience for your developers and other external knowledge workers. We will compare Amazon Workspaces with classic approaches to solving this challenge, and share best-practices for securing and managing a real-world production environment.
Speaker: Brett Looney, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Što danas zamjenjuje Small Business Server?Tomislav Lulic
Jos uvijek je dosta nezadovoljnih zbog nestanka Small Business Servera. No, da li stvarno moraju biti nezadovoljni? Prebacivanjem vecine servisa u Cloud uz pomoc Office 365 korisnik dobiva puno više nego je prije imao. Kroz demo pokazati koji su servisi poboljšani, koje promjene u poslovanju mogu korisnici (u SMB segementu) očekivati. Kroz demo pokazati kako Windows Server 2012 R2 Essential i Office 365 mogu pružiti Enterprise mogućnosti manjim tvrtkama koje nemaju zaposlene IT stručnjake.
DEVNET-1122 Integrating Cisco Collaboration into Web AppsCisco DevNet
The Cisco Jabber SDK for Web provides 3rd parties with the building blocks required to UC-enable Web-based applications. This javascript SDK is designed to simplify and accelearte the integration of pervasive UC into your Web portals and applications. It provides 3rd parties with APIs, reference clients and source code for Voice/Video, IM, Presence, WebEx meeting escalations and Visual Voicemail. Join this session to discover how adding real-time collaboration to your enterprise Web application can increase productivity for end users. You will learn what capabilities are available in the toolkit, how it works with the Cisco UC system and how to get started with your integration.
Hybrid Clouds: “Silver Bullet” of the Cloud Computing?Fabrizio Volpe
In this talk, we will see concepts and recently architectural modification and news regarding the hybrid Cloud.
An hybrid Cloud combines public cloud and private data center principles, granting access to the advantages of both kind of deployment.
This is fast growing market, because many companies desire configurations and features from both the sides of the Cloud (regardless of their size and the number of users).
We will talk about how customers are able to plan hybrid scenarios starting from on-premises deployment or from the Cloud, and then manage, control and secure both the environments with the same tools and interfaces.
We will examine how workloads and users can be moved to the public Cloud and back to the private Cloud in a seamless manner and draw some considerations on this specific computing scenario.
Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010: An Introduction To Enterprise FeaturesFabrizio Volpe
A short introduction to UAG and to its features. VPN, Direct Access and Publishing are the main topics. System requirements and hints to a successful deployment are given during the speech.
Lync server overview (Inroduction) US EnglishFabrizio Volpe
This is the Live Meeting presentation / speech I had with Atlanta Active Directory Users Group on 09/11/12.
The idea was to give an introduction to Lync and to add in the arguments some functions that are present only in Lync 2013 Preview. This is not a deep dive but almost everyting you're able to do with Lync server has been presented and explained.
The topics were :
Private cloud infrastructure configure and deploy
In collaboration with IEEE Computer Society, the Cloud Security Alliance and Dell, Microsoft is hosting a 24 Hours in a Private Cloud virtual event
Infrastructure components configure and deploy 24 hiapc fabrizio volpeFabrizio Volpe
Infrastructure components configure and deploy
In collaboration with IEEE Computer Society, the Cloud Security Alliance and Dell, Microsoft is hosting a 24 Hours in a Private Cloud virtual event
Community Days 2012 - Tecnologie di desktop virtualization Fabrizio Volpe
Community Days 2012
Milano - 16/02/2012 / 17/02/2012
Sessione
ITPRO04 - Tecnologie di Desktop Virtualization Microsoft : RDS, APP-V, MED-V, USV e VDI
Fabrizio Volpe
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Empowering NextGen Mobility via Large Action Model Infrastructure (LAMI): pav...
Skype for business mobility
1.
2. • I am Fabrizio Volpe – Microsoft MVP on Skype for Business
• I work for the Iccrea Banking Group
• I am the author five IT books including Microsoft Lync Server
2013: Basic Administration and the Lync Server Cookbook
• I tweet from @fabriziovlp
• I blog at http://www.absoluteuc.org/
3. There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said
about it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Mobility is about "experiences spanning a variety of devices”
Cloud provides the infrastructure to keep the devices
connected, and to support the services those devices
consume
8. Reverse Proxy to publish Web Services Internet
Skype for Business Web Service functions include:
• Skype for Business Mobility client
• Simple URL’s
• LyncDiscover – client sign-in and discovery
• Meet – Connect to meetings
• Dialin – Dial-In Conference settings information
• Schedule – Schedule Meetings
• Skype for Business Web App client
• Expand Distribution Groups
• Address Book download
9. Skype for Business differentiates services meant to be exposed to the external
network from the ones for the internal network using IIS sites
Using different ports also allows the Skype4B Front Ends to use a single IP
address.
10. Reverse proxy receives calls on standard ports (80 and 443) and redirects
them to the External Skype for Business website (8080 and 4443)
11.
12. The Web Application Proxy service functions as both a reverse proxy and an Active
Directory Federation Services (AD FS) proxy
Role / feature How it supports this scenario
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Active Directory® Domain Services is required as a prerequisite before you can deploy
AD FS. It is also required for Web Application Proxy deployments that use Kerberos
constrained delegation.
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) AD FS is required to provide authentication and authorization services to Web
Application Proxy and to store the Web Application Proxy configuration
Remote Access (DirectAccess, Routing and
Remote Access)
Remote Access is the role containing the Web Application Proxy role service
Services required to support the Web Application proxy
13.
14. • Autodiscover Service returns all Web Services URLs
for the user's home pool, including the Mobility
Service (Mcx and UCWA) URLs
• However, both the internal Mobility Service URL and
the external Mobility Service URL are associated with
the external Web Services FQDN
• Therefore, regardless of whether a mobile device is
internal or external to the network, the device
always connects to the Mobility Service externally
through the reverse proxy
• DNS requirements for Skype for Business
• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/dn951397.aspx
15. Lync Connectivity Analyzer attempts to connect to your server
by using the same services and protocols that are used by the
apps themselves.
The tool tests the following Lync Server components:
• Autodiscover service
• Authentication Broker (Reach) service
• Mobility (MCX) service
• WebTicket service
Lync Connectivity Analyzer tests the configuration of the
following additional components:
• Publication of DNS records for Autodiscover URLs
• Certificates
• Proxy servers
16. • The mobile client is discovering the internal LYNCDISCOVERINTERNAL
URL and will make use of the of the EXTERNAL MOBILITY URL
• Clients entitled for a direct peer-to peer setup
• Important is the network path and it must be non NATed, a direct route
17. • The mobile client must rely on the Edge Server and has to tunnel the
• signaling/ media
• The mobile device will connect to and send its media session to the
external Edge interface
• The internal full client connect media to Edge Server internal interface.
18. • Call to the external full client is rerouted via Edge Server and send to the
external side again
• First to the external Edge interface than back through the Edge server to
the remote client
22. Authentication
Pre-authentication
No domain credentials
2-factor authentication
Mobility
Credential storage
Device control
Device registration
External Internal
Edge Pool
HTTPS: 443
Access Edge – SIP/MTLS: 5061
Access Edge – SIP/TLS: 443
HTTPS: 4443
Front end pool
Active Directory
SIP/MTLS: 5061
Skype for Business
external users
External Firewall Internal Firewall
Skype for Business
federation
and Public IM
Reverse Proxy
HTTPS: 443
Infrastructure protection
Brute force
Account lock-out
DoS
25. Previously:
• Conversations on the mobile devices were not synchronized with desktop
clients. You had to send the conversation (e-mail it?) from the mobile
device to keep it on a different devices
• Users had to manually accept messages on mobile devices in a short
amount of time
Synchronized conversations allow users to maintain their conversations
across all of their devices
Auto-Accept allow the mobile client to accept incoming messages on the
users behalf
Server requirements
• Skype for Business Server 2015 with Exchange 2013 on-premises
/Exchange Online
• Skype for Business Online with Exchange 2013 on-premises/Exchange
Online
26. • Users must be homed on Skype for
Business Server 2015
• Users must have a mailbox homed on
Exchange 2013 (either on-premises or online)
• Skype for Business Server OAuth setup with
the Exchange 2013 environment
27. Skype for Business Server 2015, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 (and
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013) can create security tokens that can
be accepted by one another
• Same certificate must be configured as the OAuthTokenIssuer
certificate on all of your Front End Servers
• Certificate must be at least 2048 bits
28. Office 365 works with Windows Azure Active Directory
(WAAD)
Users defined directly on WAAD (Cloud Identity)
Synchronized identity (DirSync with Password Sync)
Federated Identity (DirSync with Single Sign-On)
29. • The Active Directory Domain Service stores passwords
in form of a hash value representation of the actual
user password
• The Password hash cannot be used to login to your
on-premises network
30. • Password is verified by the on-premises identity
provider
• This means that the password hash does not need
to be synchronized to Azure AD
31. Enable Server Side Conversation History
Set-CsConversationHistoryConfiguration -EnableServerConversationHistory $true -
verbose
Set-CsClientPolicy –identity “policy_name” –EnableServerConversationHistory $true -
verbose
Verify replication and restart the front end service
Get-CsManagementStoreReplicationStatus
Restart the SfB Services (assuming this is the first time Lync-Exchange auth has been
configured)
Required settings
CsMobilityPolicy – AllowSaveIMHistory flag = True
CsClientPolicy – DisableSavingIM = False
32. • LyncUcwa worker process in Internet Information Services
(IIS) Manager
Performance Counters
• LyncUcwa worker process in Internet Information Services
(IIS) Manager
• ASP.NETRequests Queued
For Mobility Service (Mcx)
• CSIntMcxAppPool and CSExtMcxAppPool worker
processes in Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
33. Settings for Mcx on IIS 7.5
1. maxConcurrentThreadsPerCPU is set to zero (0)
2. maxConcurrentRequestsPerCPU is set to zero (0)
3. ASP.NET process model is set to AutoConfig (for IIS 7.5 only)
4. HTTP.sys queue limit is set to 1,000 (by default)
Note: only to the Skype for Business Server 2015 Mobility Service (Mcx). Does
not apply to Unified Communications Web API (UCWA)
34. • Since the Address Book can become quite large, the
mobile client makes use of the Address Book Web
Services
• This requires that for all search requests to internal
Lync enabled users is made via a web based query
(ASWQ)