New to the Sonus SBC 1000 and SBC 2000 is the ability to perform a Partial Import of another gateway’s configuration. As it says on-screen “Existing Logical Interfaces, Ethernet Ports, VLANs, MST Instances, ACLs, Static Routes, ASM Networking, Link Monitor, NAT, IPsec Tunnels, Node-Level Settings and Certificate configurations won’t be modified. All other configurations will …
This rather juicy update takes Lync Server 2013 from 5.0.8308.866 to 5.0.8308.871 – or 5.0.8308.872 depending upon where you look. What’s Fixed? LOTS!! KB 3037071 Location monitoring report does not show regions and site names in a Lync Server 2013 environment KB 3034784 Lync Server 2013-based client crashes or disconnects from a meeting when an …
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If you’re adding a Zeacom Contact Centre to your Lync deployment one component you don’t want to overlook is the “ZCC Lync Call Router”. You run this .msi on your FEs and SBAs and it rigs a safety net under your call centre: if it senses your Zeacom server is offline it will re-route calls …
Our first client update for 2015 isn’t a major one, but *I* benefit from one of the two fixes in it, so naturally I’m excited! This update (kb2920744) takes the Lync 2013 Client to 15.0.4693.1000/1001. What’s Fixed? KB3032399 Update improves users’ ability to select partial instant messages from conversation history windows in Lync 2013 KB3032396 …
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The AD lookup feature in the Sonus SBC is an incredibly powerful and often under-utilised feature. I’ve written of it before, and my peer Luca Vitali has posted another example of its usefulness this week. That led to a Twitter conversation and what might yet turn into a bit of a competition to see who …
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I needed to mock-up a full Outlook inbox for a document I’m writing, and of course I figured there’d have to be a way to do this using PowerShell. Turns out it’s really simple. Here’s the quick and dirty script I lashed up that will dump as many messages as you like into a given …
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 …
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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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 …