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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AudioCodes has refreshed IP Phone Manager Express with the 7.4 release, aligning it more – at least visually – with the current SBC look and feel. Under the hood it’s had a significant revamp: out with SQL Express, in with mySQL. It’s presumably due to the significance of the revamp that if you try to …
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Getting a new Office Web Apps or Office Online Server to report “Healthy” is no mean feat, and you’ll find no shortage of blog posts with advice in that direction. Hence it was with great interest that I noticed Microsoft has recently updated the pre-req’s. (OK, it was either back in May or only last …
I was struggling with an Office Online Server recently that didn’t want to talk to me. I was able to create the OfficeWebAppsFarm OK, but then couldn’t query it (as I wanted to check its health): PS C:\> Get-OfficeWebAppsFarm Get-OfficeWebAppsFarm : Could not read settings from WEBAPPS. The destination is unreachable. The fix was a …
I returned from holidays recently to find my Skype for Business client reporting the familiar “Limited External Calling” error. A quick RDP to my Lab’s Edge server revealed stopped services and this error in the Event Log: Event Properties – Event 19005, LS Audio/Video Authentication Server LS Audio/Video Authentication service could not be started. Exception: …
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Digicert mailed me this week to advise that the public Edge certificate on my Lab’s Cloud Connector Edition was about to expire. Duly forewarned I set about updating it, but I hit an unexpected error when I tried to activate it in the CCE: SetCcExternalCertificateFilePathlnternal : The property ‘Commond’ cannot be found on this object. …
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My ‘mugshot’ for this year is the British Trimphone. The Trimphone was designed by Martyn Rowlands for STC as a luxury telephone that the GPO could rent to its customers at a premium. It had an innovative electronic ringer (at a time when phones still housed mechanical bells), and a dial that glowed at night …