Enabling Lync/SfB Client to use proxy server for SIP traffic instead of trying direct connection

Update 2017/09/12 - Added SfB2016 MSI (16.0.4588.1001). We had some reports that when trying to sign in to Skype for Business Online users were experiencing delays during the sign in process. This behavior was related to environments were the Lync/SfB client is configured to use a Proxy Server to connect to the Skype for Business Online servers. After researching the … Continue reading Enabling Lync/SfB Client to use proxy server for SIP traffic instead of trying direct connection

Lync/SfB Client tries to use proxy server instead of direct connection when using Proxy PAC on Windows 7

Update 2016/08/16 - This only happens on Windows 7, for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 we don't need to change the Proxy PAC file. Recently we received some reports saying that Lync 2013 and Skype for Business 2015/2016 clients were trying to use a Proxy Server for lyncdiscover and lyncdiscoverinternal URLs when the Proxy was configured using a … Continue reading Lync/SfB Client tries to use proxy server instead of direct connection when using Proxy PAC on Windows 7