I’m encountering a growing number of customers upgrading and centralising their Skype for Business infrastructure, and as part of that they’re decommissioning their Survivable Branch Appliances. At some stage I’ll be asked how they can turn off the SBA, which in the case of the Sonus/Ribbon SBAs is running on a daughter-board inside the appliance …
Hands up if you’ve tried to compare 2 objects of some type to see what – if any – differences there are between them? I tried and gave up. PowerShell’s native “Compare-Object” isn’t very helpful. It will tell you IF there’s a difference, but it’s not particularly forthcoming. Borne of that experience comes “Compare-Objects.ps1”. You …
Last month’s client update took us to 15.0.5023.1000, and now Kb4018377 increments us to 15.0.5031.1000. What’s Fixed Just the one update this month: Kb4133098 Location is still displayed even if UseLocationForE911Only is set to true in Skype for Business What’s New / Changed Nothing documented. Known Issues Nothing documented.
It’s been a long while between visits to the subject of Sonus (now Ribbon) AD-based routing in the SBC1k, 2k & SWe Lite, but my colleague Tristan recently pointed out a new feature that I wasn’t previously aware of. In my 2012 Mk-II Safety Net I showed how you could do a second AD lookup …
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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! …