I’m not too proud to admit that I’m frequently plagued by identity crises. As a consultant I spend my days signing into and out of many different deployments of SfB and Microsoft Teams, and I *regularly* lose track of which system I’m in. With Windows it’s easy: you just ask a CMD or PowerShell prompt …
The larger and more complex your on-prem SfB installation is, the greater the likelihood of encountering firewall problems. If you run this script on your Front-End server(s) it will: query the topology to find all of the Edge servers. (Add the “-site” switch to only retrieve those in a given topology site) initiate a TCP …
It’s been a month since our last update to the client and quite some time since we’ve seen a security update. This update brings one fix. Kb 4461487 takes the Office 2013-based client from 15.0.5071.1000 to 15.0.5085.1000. What’s Fixed This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a …
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It’s been a month since our last update to the client and our October update brings one fix. Kb 4461446 takes the Office 2013-based client from 15.0.5065|5067.1000 to 15.0.5071.1000. What’s Fixed Kb 4464953 Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013) freezes when you receive many emoticons What’s New / Changed Nothing documented. Known Issues Nothing documented.
Having worked out in my previous post how to get a VVX working with a Wi-Fi network connection, the next obvious challenge was to go fully cordless, and that meant ditching the PoE.
Whilst browsing the UCS 5.8 release notes I couldn’t help but notice the addition of support for Wi-Fi connectivity, added to all phones in the range that possess a USB port (except the VVX1500 apparently). This is delivered via an Obihai USB dongle, the “OBiWiFi5G” – which I was able to pick up for $AUD45 …
It’s been a month since our last update to the client and our fresh Spring update [here in the southern hemisphere] brings one fix. Kb4092457 takes the Office 2013-based client from 15.0.5059.1000 to “15.0.5067.1000” (according to the KB). The client – and get-csconnections – report it as 15.0.5065.1000. What’s Fixed Kb 4346575 Can’t transfer a …
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It’s not an uncommon requirement to provide a “courtesy” phone in a public area. In a hotel it might be a “house phone”. In many deployments all the visitor does is lift the handset from its cradle and the phone autodials or “hotlines” to the required destination.
If you go looking for the details of the wallpaper or background image sizes for the VVX family of phones you might fall into the same trap I did. You might have seen this table in the documentation: Phone model Optimal background image size (in pixels) VVX 300 and 310 208 x 104 pixels VVX …
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Coming not a fortnight after our last update to the client, this one reeks of a “whoops” – and yes it does look like it could fix some amusing/embarrassing issues. The Office 2013-based client jumps 10 builds to 15.0.5059.1000 courtesy of Kb4032250. What’s Fixed Kb4346579 User’s display name that has special characters is shown with …
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