Skype client icons like chat,call,video are greyed out in Outlook while checking the contact card of a user

Issue: Skype client icons like chat,call,video are greyed out in Outlook while checking the contact card of a user

Resolution:

When you Right click on a user in Outlook and click Open contact Card 
Next to Add there will be "...."
Click on that
Click Link Contacts
Remove others which were not necessary

This will fix the problem :)

Skype for Business Client status sticks to Away

Few users complained about their presence status sticks to away and not changing except when they are in a call or meeting.

Tried all basic troubleshooting like checking from Skype for Business client end, Exchange connectivity (EWS) and all the settings seems correct.

Finally i have observed user has a virtual machine which has the same system configuration. It means two machines with a same host (One physical & One virtual)

When user logs into the virtual machine, the presence showing correctly.

After removing the VM machine & reformat of the machine. VM machine was configured with different host name & the issue is resolved completely.

Sfb client showing Lync instead of Skype for Business

After Sfb Client update with KB3101496 with the pre-requisite KB3101360
It started showing Lync instead of Skype for Business in UI & Task Manager

From Registry, I have changed the value of LyncName DWORD value from Lync to Skype for Business 
Computer\HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync

But this seems to be a temporary solution as after the system restarts again it started showing Lync instead of Skype for Business

So, I have uninstalled the KB3101496 from my installed updates as the issue appeared after installation the Sfb client patch.

Finally after un-installation of the patch & restarting my machine, Sfb client started showing the name properly as "Skype for Business"

Can't sign in to Skype for Business

Issue: Can't sign in to Skype for Business Client

Description: The server is temporarily unavailable. If the problem continues, please contact your support team.

Collected the Skype client logs and observed there no messages recorded & only trace information available in Snooper Tool.

Below is the hint which i got from the log

SockMgr: Create New connection:DestName:(domain.com)DestPort:(5061)Transport:(2)httpTunnel:(0)TLS RemotePrincipalName:(domain.com)

Destination Name should be Skype for Business Front End Server instead of sipdomain.com

This issue would appear if user types domain.com in the Manual Configuration

To fix the issue, Just change the Manual Configuration to Automatic Configuration 

Checked in user client configuration and found in the internal server tab, domain.com was mentioned.

Skype for Business Client Crashes

Issue: Whenever user launches Skype for Business Client it Crashes

Troubleshooting steps to fix the issue:

I checked at below location and found only Tracing folder (no CEIP & Sip folder available)

C:\Users\NTID\appdata\Local\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync

Then checked for Application events in Event viewer in user machine and found Event ID 1000

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Faulting application name: lync.exe, version: 15.0.4753.1000, time stamp: 0x55ca7b6a

Faulting module name: ftwrap.ax, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4cdbad93

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x00018b05

Faulting process id: 0x530

Faulting application start time: 0x01d121edcdf14121

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\lync.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\MMEDIA\VP-EYE Camera66\ftwrap.ax

Report Id: 0dfe7085-8de1-11e5-b77b-00a0c6000000

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Asked user to remove the application (VP-EYE Camera66) software & user un-installed the software.

Then user launched the Skype for Business Client and you know what this time it didn't crash.

It was running normally :)

Convert Lync Meeting to Normal Meeting

Once you schedule a Lync Meeting and sent to the participants, they will receive the Lync Meeting conference details. If you want to remove the Lync Meeting information and convert it to a normal outlook meeting while sending you will receive below warning message, but again because of the Lync Add-in meeting information will be updated and sent to the participants

So, in order to send a normal outlook meeting by removing the Lync Meeting information.
We need to disable the Lync Add-in from Outlook first.

Uncheck the selected Meeting Add-in and Click Ok. This will disable the Lync Add-in, now while removing the Lync Meeting information and while sending to participants you won't see any warning message.


 

How to Remove the Header of CSV file

#TYPE System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject

  To eliminate the above header from CSV file while using Export-CSV command, add -NoTypeInformation

Export-CSV "Location where you want to save the CSV file" -NoTypeInformation