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Keep in mind that in the desktop versions of Outlook and Skype for Business the integration works even without the steps that we have been exploring in this article series. When using Outlook for desktop and Skype for Business client desktop applications, the Skype for Business installation process adds an add-in in Outlook, and that enables the Skype Meeting button on Outlook. By the way, the Exchange Server 2016 Public Preview has the same option in a different spot, on that version we need to click on Skype Meeting, and then on Add Skype meeting, as shown in Figure 08. When creating a new meeting in Outlook Web App, we will have an additional button called Online meeting when creating a new meeting request (Figure 07), click on it. However, we have not mentioned the integration on the calendar side, and in this section we are going over that nice feature that comes with the integration. In the previous article we integrated Outlook Web App with Skype for Business, and later on we went over the process using high-resolution photos. Give some time and after a while, check on the Skype for Business client and the result now should be UCS being displayed on the Contact List Provider line, as shown in Figure 05.ДЄ folder called Skype for Business Contacts will be created in Outlook and all the contacts will be there, as shown in Figure 06.ДЇigure 06 Meetings in Outlook Web App and Skype for BusinessвЂ¦ Set-CSUserServicesPolicy global вЂ“UCSAllowed $True In some environments, the administrator may have more than one User Services Policy, and they must be adjusted accordingly. In this scenario we are changing the global policy that applies to all users. In order to enable Unified Contact Store (UCS), we just need to change the UCSAllowed attribute to true, as shown in the cmdlets below (Figure 04). In the new window, look at the Contact List Provider line, and when the integration is not in place we will have Skype for Business Server, as shown in Figure 03. We can hold Ctrl + Shift and right click on Skype for Business client and then click on Configuration Information (Figure 02). The UCSAllowed should have the value of True and that means that integration is enabled in the current environment, as depicted in the image below we can validate that feature is not enabled.ДЄnother easy place to spot if the integration is in place or not, is using Skype for Business client. If you are transitioning from a previous version of Skype for Business (Lync Server), the Unified Contact Store may not be configured, and in order to check the current status we can use the Get-CSUserServicePolicy cmdlet in Skype for Business Server Management Shell, as shown in Figure 01. If you are following our article series, you should be fine with integration by now. If you are installing Skype for Business for the first time in your organization, then Unified Contact Store will be enabled by default, however you still need the basic requirements which are having the user hosted on an Exchange Server 2013 or higher, and the integration between Exchange Server and Skype for Business must be in place. In previous versions of the Skype for Business Server (this product had several names, such as Live Communications Server (LCS), OCS which stands for Office Communications Server, and the last couple of releases were Lync Server) the contact information was stored inside of the product on its own database that resides on the SQL, however we can take advantage of Unified Contact Store (UCS) and store all contact information on the Exchange Server.

In this article we are going to cover the Unified Contact Store (UCS) feature which allows all contacts to be stored in Exchange instead of the Skype for Business Server.

In the previous article, we worked on the high resolution photos among Unified Communications products.

Integrating Exchange Server 2013 and Skype for Business Server 2015 (Part 5).

Integrating Exchange Server 2013 and Skype for Business Server 2015 (Part 4).

Integrating Exchange Server 2013 and Skype for Business Server 2015 (Part 3).

Integrating Exchange Server 2013 and Skype for Business Server 2015 (Part 2).

Integrating Exchange Server 2013 and Skype for Business Server 2015 (Part 1).

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