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Skype is a proprietary VOIP (Voice over IP) service and software application.

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Skype is a proprietary (Voice over IP) service and software application. The service allows users to communicate with peers by voice using a microphone, video by using a webcam, and instant messaging over the Internet. Phone calls may be placed to recipients on the traditional telephone networks.

Website: http://www.skype.com

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype

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Skype-SIP gateway

Does anyone know if you can setup a Skype-to-SIP gateway on your network? I tried Uplink, which works wonders, but only on Windows and with Skype on the same machine... It would be awesome if you could put that program on any machine and then use it…
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Does your company allow Skype in network?

Does your company allow Skype in network? What are reasons to forbid it, and how it is enforced? Is it done for security concerns?
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How do you configure QoS for Skype?

On our office network (26 people), some users have complained of poor Skype call quality, particularly in the upstream direction. I wanted to ask, how do I identify Skype traffic, considering that it uses a random port, in order that I might…
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Get rid of Skype for Business warning about Exchange

I'm at a college where we have a campus licensing agreement with Microsoft for licensing Windows and Office that now includes Office 365 online services, which includes Skype for Business. I'm playing with Skype, and it's a decent IM and presence…
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Should Skype be reliable in a corporate environment?

I have been managing the IT function in a small software development company that has grown from 10 users to 70 users in 5 years. Most users in the company are office based, but some key users work remotely. At the beginning, Skype become the de…
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Skype Connect as SIP/Trunk for Asterisk

First off: I'm not sure if this should be on superuser or here. I have recently built a few Asterisk boxes with OpenVOX FXO/FXS ports little or no trouble. My current project is building an Asterisk box with SIP trunks. My current employer insisted…
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Improving Skype quality

Every now and then I revisit the issue of shaping skype traffic. AFAIK Skype is notorious for ignoring most settings - incoming ports, proxies, etc so it is not possible to give special treatment to skype traffic - I guess the idea is to keep skype…
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Skype in a business - what's your view?

We currently don't allow Skype usage on the LAN. The reasons ultimately come down to that great cover-all of "security", though I have to admit that these days I'm not sure if Skype has turned into a better product when talking about a business…
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pfSense with two WANs, routing Skype traffic over a specific WAN

I have a pfSense setup with two WANs (WAN1 and WAN2) and one LAN network. The two WANs are setup for failover. However, QoS has recently been an issue for Skype calls in our office (about 30 people) so we want to dedicate WAN2 for Skype traffic (we…
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Switch from Skype to IRC

In our company (web company, 35 people, engineering and business, OS X clients, linux servers), we're evaluating alternatives to Skype which we use mostly for group and user-to-user chat. I've looked into IRC but saw two problems: when my IRC…
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Skype for Business Server 2015 and .local domain

I am having some issues getting our SfB server running when connected outside the company network. We have a standalone SfB server with a hostname: hostname.domain.local The SIP domain looks like this: domain.co.uk When connected internally, our…
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Application Event Log Source: SideBySide, Event ID: 35 Lync.exe.Manifest error

I'm seeing an error in my Windows event log with the following signature: Log: Application Source: SideBySide EventId: 35 Level: Error Description: Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office…
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Skype for Business/Lync 2013 - Wrong Display Names

Recently we've been noticing an issue where when searching for a user in Skype For Business/Lync 2013, a different user will show up in the search results. Doing some research, this seems to be related to "proxy addresses" as I notice the user that…
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Lync2013/Skype for Business 2015 Firewall requirements

We are looking to deploy a single consolidated edge on a vSphere Cluster. From reading the Microsoft documentation, it appears you need two layers of firewalling. Internet <--> Firewall <--> Edge Server/Reverse Proxy <--> Firewall <--> Front…
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How to change routing for skype packets?

I can't seem to find a way to somehow change routing for Skype packets. I have following situation: host ha, in lan, runs skype. host ha has gateway "gw1" gw1 has 2 separate network connections - one of them is default, and I'd like to dedicate the…
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