Mucking with MWI – Part II

In the process of migrating a customer to Lync recently we inherited an obligation to provide a *BIG* Message Waiting Indicator (MWI) light whenever a voicemail message arrived in a particular high-priority mailbox. That inspired me to embark on a campaign to see how many ways I could bring an external MWI light to reality. …

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Lync 2013 Client Update to Skype for Business – April 2015

IT’S HERE! Today marks the release of the new Skype for Business Client update to Windows Update. Much has been written in anticipation of this of late and there are plenty of references I’ve captured below. Until Office 2016 is released, THIS is your client-side update path to Skype for Business: Install Lync 2013 from …

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Mucking with MWI – Part I

In the process of migrating a customer to Lync recently we inherited an obligation to provide a *BIG* Message Waiting Indicator (MWI) light when-ever a voicemail message arrived in a particular high-priority mailbox. We figured there were a number of ways we could do this: Optically couple to the MWI LED on an LPE or …

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