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).
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 …