Yealink phone immediately reverts after firmware upgrade

This is one for those of you like me who get a little forgetful, or maybe belong to a larger team and sometimes trip each other up. If you upgrade a Yealink phone’s firmware using its WebUI and it immediately downgrades itself again, just check someone’s not previously loaded and Approved a firmware version in …

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Update-SfbCertificate.ps1

Skype for Business – like so much else these days – relies on PKI certificates, and the community has risen to the opportunity with some great tools to help us manage them. Here are two in my “essentials” kit: Check out the “Lync Certificates Report“: If you’ve not found it already, Guy Bachar & Yoav …

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SfB 2016 Client Security Update – April 2016

This week’s security update also affects the Office 2016-based Lync/SfB client: Kb3114960 “MS16-039: Description of the security update for Skype for Business 2016: April 12, 2016 This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Skype for Business 2016 that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted document or visits a webpage that …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Security Update – April 2016

This week’s security update takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4805.1000 to 15.0.4809.1000. Kb3114944 “MS16-039: Description of the security update for Lync 2013 (Skype for Business): April 12, 2016. This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Lync 2013 and Skype for Business. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a …

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Lync 2013 Server Update – April 2016

An April update to the Lync 2013 server has landed, taking the server from 5.0.8308.945 to 5.0.8308.949. Five components are patched, however as at this date (April 16th) the Kb article – or at least the version dished by Microsoft’s CDN to me in Sydney – hasn’t been updated with the content, and one of …

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Review: Busylight Omega

It turns out that my last review of external presence indicators (generically “Busylights”) was over three years ago, so with the arrival of the Kuando Busylight “Omega” recently I thought I should see what’s changed in both camps. Bart’s here for scale modelling the Kuando models, with the Omega on the left sitting next to …

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