Lync Server 2013 Update – November 2014

As Michael LaMontagne so succinctly put it on Twitter, the monthly CU’s we’ve been seeing recently are to make up for the dearth of them at the start of the year. And so it is that three weeks after the October update we have another, this time taking Lync Server 2013 from 5.0.8308.831 to 5.0.8308.834. …

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Lync 2013 Client Update – November 2014

We have a November update to the Lync client. Read all about KB2899507 here. This update takes the Lync 2013 Client to 15.0.4667.1000/1001. What’s Fixed? 3010340 Video freezes consistently for two second-intervals when you make a video call in Lync 2013 3009723 Incorrect format of string in a trace statement when application sharing session viewers …

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Lync ‘vNext’ is “Skype for Business”

Since paying US$8.5Billion for Skype back in 2011, Microsoft’s been slowly absorbing its technology into the existing Lync product. Last year we saw Federation between Skype and Lync (albeit with some caveats), this year it was the inclusion of Skype’s “SILK” codecs into the Lync clients, and now today it’s official: “vNext” of Lync (to …

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