New-LyncMeetingWarmup

Complaints regarding a slow meeting join process in Lync aren’t at all uncommon, and in many cases are actually as a result of IIS’s automatic recycling process, itself intended to improve reliability of the IIS websites. Drago Totev has published a fantastic process by which you can ensure your Lync IIS application pools are always …

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Lync Server 2013 Update #2 – December 2014

This (our second December update) takes Lync Server 2013 from 5.0.8308.857 to 5.0.8308.866. What’s Fixed? This update appears to only address the recent meeting join issue for users of Google Chrome (as per the earlier December release), with a token mystery fix for good luck: kb3027552: The cumulative update resolves the following issue: “Google Chrome …

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2015 mugshot: the Ericofon

My ‘mugshot’ for 2015 is the wonderfully kitsch “Ericofon”. In some markets it’s known as the “Cobra” telephone. The Ericofon was introduced into Australia around 1963 as an alternative to the standard 800-series table phone. Their insides were fully imported from Sweden and the cases moulded locally, the phones then assembled in Ericsson’s Broadmeadows factory …

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