Microsoft Teams joins Skype for Business Visio Stencil in V3.0

06 Wednesday Mar 2019

Posted by Paul Bloem in Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, Skype for Business Tools, Teams, visio, Visio Stencil

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Microsoft Teams, S4B Visio Stencil, Teams Visio Stencil

Its been just over a year since the last release of my Skype for Business Stencil (V2.0). Of course the world changes and over the last 12 months I have added a number of additional images. This includes numerous Teams images as well.

Its not brand new but certainly worthy of bumping to V3.0. Below is a snippet of some of the new images

Visio 3.0

Download HERE

Skype Admin Tools: LURIA 2.0

17 Thursday Aug 2017

Posted by Paul Bloem in Lync 2013 Tools, Skype for Business Tools, UC Sorted Tools

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Skype for Business, Tools

Back in 2014 I released a tool named LURIA designed to lookup assigned numbers and policies for Lync\Skype objects. You can find the original HERE.

Once the CSMeeting cmdlet was introduced it became clear that I needed an update. So why has it taken so long? Simply because I wanted to introduce the ability to EDIT the looked up items directly in the Data Grid.

LURIA

So what’s new in V2.0?

With LURIA 2.0 it’s possible to edit items on mass. I have included the editing of the following fields in the grid view:-

SIP Address
Line Uri
Dial Plan
Voice Policy
Conference Policy
Location Policy
Client Policy
External Access Policy
Mobility Policy
PIN Policy
Hosted Voicemail Policy

Another new addition is the ability to open the grid view as a .csv

How does it work?

Fire up LURIA V2.x.x.exe (current version needs Skype Admin Tools installed)
Click on the Load button (depending on how many entries are found this could take a few seconds. My direct access connection to the office with around 500 entries takes under 15 seconds). You may get a Not Responding notice, if so please be patient..
Search for the entry you are looking for
Edit as needed (currently a tab is needed to register edited info)
Click Commit, the displayed data now represents only the changes fields
You could load up again by clicking the Load button (please remember that it can take some seconds before the committed changes are ready, I usually wait 10 seconds before Loading again)

Requirements

Currently you will need Skype Admin Tools installed to run LURIA

Download Luria 2.0 from HERE

What’s next?

Looking to add an option to add new users individually as well as from a .csv import
Will be adding a remote PowerShell Connect option

I am looking for feedback and suggestions on improvements, happy to hear from you.

Visio Stencil for Skype for Business Add-On Products 2016

17 Tuesday May 2016

Posted by Paul Bloem in Lync Tools, Skype for Business Tools, Tools, Uncategorized, visio, Visio Stencil

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Add-On, Visio Template

What do you call the collection of all the add-on items one can add to a Skype for Business solution?

Additive? Add-On? Supplement? Additions? I prefer bells and whistles, its descriptive and yet so elusive.

Every Skype for Business solution has some sort of bell and\or whistle. Be that some sort of video conferencing solution, Contact Center or IP Phone. What I find difficult is clearly representing these when architecting an environment in Visio. Wouldn’t it be useful to have all these sorts of supplemental components were in a visio stencil for quick access. And so the stencil is born. The theme is based on the same theme used through the Skype for Business 2015 – Visio Stencil (an updated V2.0 will be out soon)

I have also added a second shape for most of the products in the template. The reason for this is that often a Visio is used on larger screens that afford a little more detail.

Acpect Shapes Genesys Shapes Nectar shapes Prognosis Shapes