Lync 2010 Server Update – April 2014

Here’s the Q2 update for Lync Server 2010. What’s Fixed “This cumulative update improves the reliability, stability, and performance of Lync Server 2010, Core Components”.  Oh, and these bits: 2954538 Application and desktop sharing features are missing when Lync Web App runs on Internet Explorer 11 or Firefox 2884800 Can’t join a meeting in Lync …

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Set-SfBClientWarnings.ps1

I recently rebuilt my PC and was annoyed by Skype for Business popping all of the newbie nag messages that I’d previously suppressed. “There has to be a way to suppress these en-masse” I say to myself. Whilst trawling through the Registry to find them it also occurred to me that when I’m delivering end-user …

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Lync 2013 Client Update – April 2014

Hot on the heels of the oft-confusing March Client update (with its seemingly inconsistent version numbering), here’s a juicy April offering with lots of identified fixes. Conspicuous by its absence is any reverting of the emoticons to the animated, unambiguous & friendly pre-SP1 ones, but let’s not harp on about that. This update takes us …

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Set-UxLoggingLevel.ps1

Following on from my recent script set-uxfxscountry-ps1, here’s another quick script that uses Vik Jaswal’s great PowerShell module for the Sonus SBC1000 & 2000 gateways. This one queries and displays on-screen the current logging level set in the gateway and lets you change the level of ALL of the components to a new value. I …

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Get-ReplicationHealth.ps1

My current work project is to add an Australia-wide Lync deployment into a much larger global installation. As part of this I’ve found it’s sometimes a challenge to monitor just those bits that I’m responsible for. The Command “get-CsManagementStoreReplicationStatus” – or “get-CsMana<tab><tab>” as I prefer to call it – outputs too much “noise”, scrolling many …

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Lync 2013 Client Update – March 2014

Well, I don’t know where Summer went, but here we are, it’s March, we’re 12 days into the AU Autumn/Fall, and we have a Lync Client update to play with! Kinda. This update is advertised as taking the Lync Client to 15.0.4569.1508 – although as I show below, that’s not my experience, and others have …

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Tweaking Sonus Message Translations

I recently encountered a strange problem where calls to certain test numbers stopped working as expected after we’d commissioned a new Sonus PSTN Gateway for Lync (in this case an SBC1k running 3.0.2 b271 firmware) “upstream” from the PABX. If you called ”127 22123” from the PABX, the call just rang and rang without answer …

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LyncConf14 Keynote Highlights

Hi from Vegas! The Keynote presentation here at the 2014 LyncConf has gotten the conference off to a great start today. As expected – having been foreshadowed 12 months ago at LyncConf13 – high-definition video between Skype and Lync participants is imminent. That was demo’d to us this morning, and I see there’s a technical …

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Convert-RibbonSbcConfigToWord.ps1

  Been here before? Know the deal? Jump to the revision history to see what’s in the latest update. … or go straight to the Downloads. The name’s a bit of a mouthful, but “Convert-RibbonSbcConfigToWord.ps1” takes the backup file from your Ribbon/Sonus SBC/UX 1000 or 2000 gateway and creates a new Word document, with all …

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