We have a February update! It’s been just over a month since our last update to the client, and as with January’s, this update also only brings one fix. Kb 4462135 takes the Office 2013-based client from 15.0.5101.1000 to 15.0.5111.1000. What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issue: 4488496 Call or conference window becomes transparent …
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I’ve been tinkering with Python of late – of which you’ll read more about here in due course. I’ve never used Python before, but I’ve been really impressed with what I’ve been able to code and get a Raspberry Pi to do in such a relatively short time. In the process of building that project …
A customer reported an interesting bug that found its way to me today, and in the washup it turned out that I was somewhat directly the cause. Ouch. The problem was that anyone hosting a “Meet Now” meeting on the Trio was unable to add participants. When they pressed “+ Add” on-screen button, the phone …
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It’s been over 6 years years since I published two how-to guides on ways to interface your (then) on-premises Lync deployment to a public address / paging system: Public Address (Paging) Options for Lync More Public Address (Paging) Options for Lync Given the Cloud-based architecture of Office 365 and Microsoft Teams I thought I should …
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You’d think by now Microsoft would have stopped hard-coding its products to expect the US date format “MMDDYY”, but apparently the team behind Office Online Server 2016 are still holding out – and as a result you might find your OOS farm remains steadfastly “Unhealthy”, despite your best efforts. If you’re not in the US …
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Six months after our last update we have a January update to take your Lync Server 2013 up from 5.0.8308.1001 to 5.0.8308.1068. It updates 4 components on my Standard Edition Front-End. What’s Fixed? This cumulative update fixes the following issue: Kb4475819 Update for the Intercluster routing component is available for Lync Server 2013 What’s New? …
This week saw the release of an update for SfB Server 2015, taking the server up from 6.0.9319.534 to 6.0.9319.537 and updating 8 components on my Standard Edition Front-End. My fellow MVP Luca has commented on the size of this one, which is indeed a lot larger than its predecessors: Latest #Skype4B CU 2019-01 has …
I recently realised my Lab’s Office Online Server is broken, and it looks to have been down since these (November) Windows updates were applied on December 11th:
Happy new year! I wonder what 2019 has in store for us? It’s been 6 or so weeks since our last update to the client, and this update brings just the one fix. Kb 4461557 takes the Office 2013-based client from 15.0.5085.1000 to 15.0.5101.1000 (although it’s reported in the kb as 15.0.5101.1002). What’s Fixed This …
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The phone in my ‘mugshot’ this year is an old red buttinski, or ‘butt’ for short. In other countries you might call it a lineman’s handset. (If you refer to these by any other name in your country, please post it to the comments).