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Now, for its next trick, Skype for Business will make Response Groups in the Control Panel magically disappear! Seriously? You have a lot of nerve, Skype For Business. 😉 A client opened a ticket recently for help recovering his Skype for Business Response Groups. He shared a picture of the empty Control Panel: Bye, Felicia. I had the client run several commands to verify the Response Groups were still seen via PowerShell. 'Get-CsRGSWorkflow' and 'Get-CsRGSQueue' both returned all workflows and queues that had been created. At this point, the only other thing I could think of that may prevent him from seeing the Response Groups was his permissions. I asked to see which RBAC groups he was in and I noticed he was in both the 'CsReponseGroupAdministrator' and 'CsResponseGroupManager' groups. The 'admin' group manages all the Response Groups for a site, while the 'manager' groups allows for management of specific response groups ( Te...
I received an email from a client this week that users at his site could not complete transfers from their Polycom CX or VVX desk phones. Tranfers using the Skype for Business client worked perfectly, but any transfer via the desk phone failed. The client said when they initiated a transfer from a desk phone, it would either transfer to dead air or reply with a busy signal. This happened when the phone tried to transfer to an extension or the full 10 digit DID. I broke this problem down into several things I wanted to examine. First off, was there something on the phone that wasn't allowing the transfer? I've found Polycom phone configuration files to be a blessing and a curse. You can edit the configuration files to do almost anything, however, searching thru 60-70 pages of a configuration guide to find the one  setting you need can be... challenging? Yes, challenging. We'll go with that. 😏 As it turns out, there is a field that needs to be enabled for transferring....