Lync CU4 Database Update Error

My Topology here in the Lab started with a Standard Edition FE, and I later added an EE. Accordingly, the XDS is on the SE FE, which would be considered ‘unconventional’ in the outside world, and certainly highly undesirable if you’re aiming for high availability. CU4 went on to the SE without any problems, but …

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Audio file formats for Lync and Exchange

Lync and Exchange will let you customise and import new recordings for various greetings, voice announcements, messages, etc. Here are the respective requirements for the audio file formats. The source is hyperlinked or referenced beneath each item. Yes, some of this is a cut and paste job. Before You Start Just taking any old audio …

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NET UX2000 SIP Override Tables

Updated 12th December 2011. (Scroll to the bottom) We’ve found here in Oz with the UX that occasionally a random failure code from the carrier is enough to block the entire gateway. The NET faithfully interprets the applicable standards, mapping the ISDN failure messages to their SIP equivalents, then sends the resulting message to Lync. …

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“Profiles for Lync”

  This post is obsolete. ‘Profiles’ has been replaced by bounSky!     This post is WAAAAY obsolete. ;-) The latest Profiles post (1 Jan 2015) is here: https://greiginsydney.com/p4l-sticky/. A free multi-user account management application for Lync. If you’re following my exploits here you might have seen my “C-Change PHP” application, and the accompanying disclaimer …

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Restoring a 232MT “Pyramid” phone

I’ve loved phones since I was a kid, and possess a small collection including my grandmother’s Commonwealth Ericsson and a candlestick, as well as the usual more modern plastic and Bakelite affairs. The mechanical aspects of payphones always fascinated me, so I have some of them here too. I’ve had a “Pyramid” phone here for …

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Lync ABSConfig.exe update

It’s been a while coming, but one of the bugs with the Lync Reskit’s “ABSConfig.exe” has finally been updated in a Hotfix for OCSCore. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2621857 The ABSConfig tool does not function correctly when you use the tool to customize the Address Book Service configuration or restore default attributes in Lync Server 2010 Strangely, it updates the …

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