That is the last Tutorial of this series and we will be starting up the Skype for Business services and accessing the Skype for Business Control Panel.
Solution
Now that we deployed the prepare the environment, installed the products bits, and configured the certificates, our last step is to start the services.
In order to identify the current status of the Skype for Business services, open Skype for Business Server Management Shell as administrator, and run the following cmdlet, the result will be all required services listed in three (3) columns: Status, Name and Activity level.
Get-CSWindowsService
To start the services that are stopped, just run the following cmdlet:
Start-CSWindowsService
We can check the changes by running the same Get-CSWindowsServices, and at this time we should have all services listed as running on the first column.
Skype for Business Control Panel…
Based on our design we can access from any computer on the internal network the address https://admin.patricio.ca (this was the name defined during the DNS configuration, and afterwards on the Topology Builder) to get access to the Skype for Business Control Panel, where we can manage users, policies and several other components of the product.
After the component installation, hit refresh on your browser and the initial page of the Skype for Business Control Panel will be displayed, as shown in the figure below.
That completes our Tutorial series to deploy Skype for Business Standard on a single server.
Written by Anderson Patricio
Anderson Patricio is a Canadian MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management, and Office Server and Services, besides the Microsoft Award he also holds a Solutions Master (MCSM) in Exchange and several other certifications. Anderson has been contributing to the Microsoft Community with articles, tutorials, blog posts, twitter, forums and book reviews. He is a regular contributor here at ITPROCentral.com, MSExchange.org, Techgenix.com and Anderson Patricio.org (Portuguese).
Hi – Excellent tutorial. Look forward to Enterprise edition multi server deployment with ha.
Ram
Great work.! I use split-brain dns on my demo-stand too. I created 2 dns-zones and configure it like in this post. everything work fine. But I can’t configure Edge Server. Maybe You will continue this tutorial and describe Edge installation?
Hi Max,
Yes, we are planning to develop the Edge portion of that series. However, in your case you can use host files to resolve the internal Lync Servers (ops.. S4B Servers).
Great Work !!!
Waiting for Enterprise Voice plus PSTN setups with SfB 2015 .
But Many many thanks for such Nice and easy going steps for Installation… I appreciate your efforts !!!
Thanks Again .
I need info for the Public DNS Server Configuration. Which Public DNS Server Entrys are urgent ? Which Ports should be natted on the Firewall.
Thanks for the great Documentation …
Hi Chris,
When publishing S4B to the Internet, then you need to install the Edge Server role that will be located in your DMZ. We are going to create a series of Tutorials to cover this area. Hang in there.
Hi,
I’m looking forward for S4B Edge server tutorial. It would be nice if you can also include reverse proxy deployment.