Protocols and standards. We live and die by them, and while we can’t live without them, sometimes they can be a royal PITA. And so it is apparently, with Polycom’s interpretation of RFC4568 Session Description Protocol (SDP), with which I became all too familiar this week. I was called in to try and figure out …
What’s with the monthly client update cadence at the moment? No complaints here though: I personally benefit from possibly two of these fixes! The March update took us to 15.0.5015.1000, and our early April update (Kb 4018334) adds 8 builds to hit 15.0.5023.1000. What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb 4095404 A call …
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At about the same time any given Skype for Business deployment gains its second PSTN gateway / Session Border Controller, the old diagnostician in me wants a means to be able to directly send calls to each one individually. By being able to directly focus my outgoing calls on just one SBC I can confirm …
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I recently had the opportunity to spend some quality time with “Pano”, Polycom’s meeting room collaboration interface, and I found it a really useful piece of kit. What Is It? Pano is an interface device that lets you share content from your PC, Mac or mobile device into a meeting or meeting room. You can …
I hit an expected snag recently where I wasn’t able to get an existing SfB 2015 Front-End pool to start after growing it from 1 to 3 servers. Coincidentally I’d performed this same job for another customer maybe a month prior and it had gone off without a hitch. Not so this time. Try as …
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Our March 2018 update nudges the server up from 6.0.9319.510 to 6.0.9319.516 and updates 7 components on my Standard Edition Front-End. It doesn’t seem to be officially called CU7, but so far Martin and I are going with that. I’ll update the post if I’m advised to the contrary. CU6 HF2 it is, thanks Tim! …
The February update broke us through through the FIVE THOUSAND BUILD mark to hit 15.0.5007.1000, and our March update (Kb 4018290) nudges us higher to 15.0.5015.1000. What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb 4089881 Outlook freezes when creating a Skype meeting in Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013) Kb 4089880 File transfer is …
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Hosting back-to-back meetings is at times unavoidable, and if you’re not careful you run the risk of people joining your second meeting before the first has concluded. This potentially awkward scenario arises when you’ve used the same conference ID for both, and your newcomers blissfully join not realising the virtual meeting room is already (still) …
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The January update took us to 15.0.4997.1000 and this week Kb 4011678 pushed us through the FIVE THOUSAND BUILD mark to hit 15.0.5007.1000. Phew! What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb 4076534 Skype for Business client crashes when working with external contacts in Outlook Kb 4076533 Can’t input messages until clicking participants list …
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In the process of deploying an SfB installation or maybe in the early days of go-live it’s not uncommon for users to report a problem where they’re unable to add people to their Delegates or Team-Call Group list. It’s less common to see this in established installations, but there are genuine reasons why this might …
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