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DNS Records for Skype for Business Hybrid Installation

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DNS Configuration for Skype for Business Hybrid Deployments DNS settings are important and you need to understand how your organizations Skype for Business communication flow works. First important understanding: If you run a hybrid installation, your Office 365 Tenant with Skype for Business Online is seen from your On-Premise installation as a federated organization. Therefore the following DNS records must also be resolvable from your internal DNS infrastructure (Edge Server). Depending on how DNS is configured in your organization, you may need to add these records to the internal hosted DNS zone for the corresponding SIP domain(s) to provide internal DNS resolution to these records. (see illustration below table) DNS RECORD RECORD TYPE WHERE IT SHOULD RESOLVE TO PORT sip.YourDom.com A Public IP of Access Edge n/a _sip._tls.YourDom.com SRV External on-premises Access Edge Interface (sip. YourDom .c...

Setup Broadcast Meetings in Skype for Business

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(Version 1.0: 3rd Nov. 2015) First I start with, broadcast meetings are in an very early stage and introduce only a handful of planned and great feature still coming. Therefore I ask you to read this article frequently seeing the updates will I can blog about. Microsoft introduced Skype broadcast meeting as an individual service aside with Office 365. It requires a dedicated login under: https://broadcast.skype.com/ You can use Skype Broadcast Meetings in both scenarios: - Office 365 only (Skype for Business is 100% in the cloud) - Hybrid Setup Required is: - Azure Password sync or ADFS The Broadcast meeting relays on the Azure Media Services and must be delivered online. From here we are entering the main managing page for broadcast meeting: As you see, the scheduled meetings are visible at this level. They will appear in the three column design. Simply if you need to schedule a new meeting, click the "New Meeting" option and start configuring i...