The phone in my ‘mugshot’ this year is, like me, quite a relic. It’s an ivory-coloured handset from a 400-series phone. At the start of last century telephones were typically constructed of timber or metal. It wasn’t until the late 1920’s that the British Siemens company developed the first plastic phone, made of a “thermo …
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As per my previous post, I’ve just realised I’ve missed TWO client updates this year. The second of these was from August. Kb 4475564 took us from 15.0.5153.1001 to 15.0.5159.1000 – although the KB lists it as 15.0.5163.1000. What’s Fixed Kb 4513494 HTML messages sent to Skype for Business display incorrect font in Export-CsArchivingData output …
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Here we are boldly staring down Christmas again for another year, and I’ve just realised not one but TWO updates to the Office 2013-based Skype for Business client have snuck past me in recent months. (Well, at least I have a handy New Year’s Resolution up my sleeve now…) The previous update was June, and …
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Rocky and I bought our first home together back in late 1995. It was a lovely 3-bedroom semi-detached house in one of the inner-western suburbs of Sydney. We found ourselves holding a housewarming for it in January 1996, and for some reason lost to history we settled on a parody / lampooning of the poster …
I’ve spent a lot of time this year working with the <verb>-CsUserData commandlets in SfB, and it’s been an interesting time. This is part 2 in a series where I document the traps I’ve fallen into with the Import-CsUserData and Update-CsUserData commands in particular. Part 1 – Update-CsUserData fails on bad data. Part 2 – …
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Just in time for an early Christmas we have CU2 for SfBS2019. This update builds upon September’s CU1 HF1, updating eleven components on my SE Front-End. It takes the build from 7.0.2046.143 to 7.0.2046.151. What’s Fixed? 4525498 Ability to add server roles in tri-existence mode will be blocked in Skype for Business Server 2019 4525496 Skype for …
Inspired by a question from John Cook on Twitter, I’ve taken my “Update-RibbonADCache.ps1” script, and through the magic of “Save As” we now have Get-RibbonSbcUptime.ps1. Get-RibbonSbcUptime.ps1 invokes a REST login to your Sonus/Ribbon SBC 1k/2k/SWe-Lite and reports how long it’s been running: the CpuUptime. It outputs to the pipeline either a timespan object, or a …
I’ve spent a lot of time this year working with the <verb>-CsUserData commandlets in SfB, and it’s been an interesting time. This is part 1 in a series where I document the traps I’ve fallen into with the Import-CsUserData and Update-CsUserData commands in particular. Part 1 – Update-CsUserData fails on bad data. Part 2 – …
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I’ve been travelling a lot for work this year, and when I’m away from home I generally leave my home PC on. It was upon returning from a work trip that I found Windows had pushed an update to it, and it had restarted – and from that moment, Outlook was broken. Cannot start Microsoft …
To borrow from the tourist trap t-shirt, “I was hoping for a CU, and and all I got was this lousy HF”. Oh well, any fix is a good fix. This update builds upon July’s CU1, updating only two components on my SE Front-End. It takes the build from 7.0.2046.123 to 7.0.2046.143. What’s Fixed? Kb …