Preparation Installation Operation Tips, tricks and traps Debugging There’s an old joke that goes “Q: Why do people take an instant dislike to <InsertNameOfUnpopularPolitician>?” “A: It saves time”. And so it is with SEFAUtil. Without doubt SEFAUtil is an indispensable utility. “Secondary Extension Feature Activation Utility” – to give it its full name – ships …
This February 2017 update takes the server from 6.0.9319.272 to 6.0.9319.277 & updates 5 components on my Standard Edition Front-End. What’s Fixed? Kb3212371 Skype for Business Server 2015 installer can’t update necessary drivers (Media Relay driver) Kb3209571 LastActive attribute provides inaccurate information about a user’s presence status in Skype for Business Kb3209570 You can’t set …
Our February update fixes a handful of issues in the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client (KB3161988), and in so doing it takes us from 15.0.4893.1000 to 15.0.4903.1001. What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb4010268 Make High Importance IM messages more prominent in Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013) Kb4010264 “Search Chat Room History” pushes …
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This January update to Lync Server 2013 primarily addresses an E911 issue introduced in November. If you’ve updated to 5.0.8308.974 or 5.0.8308.977 (the November and December updates) and use E911, you should consider applying this update with a sense of urgency. It takes the server to 5.0.8308.984. What’s Fixed? Kb4010079 Emergency call (E9-1-1) fails in …
This error pops up from time to time with the Polycom UCS family of devices (VVX, Trio & SoundPoint) and it’s usually easily resolved. Whilst the phone won’t tell you what the problem is – it doesn’t name the file(s) it can’t find – your provisioning server is likely to hold the answer. In this …
The New Year’s off to a cracker of a start with this week’s update to the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client (Kb3141468), which takes us from 15.0.4885.1000 to 15.0.4893.1000. What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb3213025 Meeting link is disabled in Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013) when Exchange servers of both organizations have …
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The release of AudioCodes SBC firmware 7.20A.100 fixes an issue where the Active Directory passwords of your SBC administrators might be inadvertently captured into the Syslog. This issue is isolated to the AD / LDAP Authentication feature, where the SBC will let you authenticate to its web console using your Active Directory credentials. It passes …
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This “Take 2” at the November CU updates the Core and Web Components from 5.0.8308.974 to 5.0.8308.977, addressing this issue that snuck into the last update: Kb3212869: Searching for a user on Lync Mobile returns no results after the November 2016 Cumulative Update for Lync Server 2013 is installed. What’s Fixed? Just the above. What’s …
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I noted in my recent post about CU4 that I’d seen a recurrent 32270 error in my Lab after the install, and that it took another reboot to banish. Roll forward a few weeks to my current customer deployment and I’ve been seeing recurrent PDP (Call Admission Control) errors… since the moment CU4 went on. …
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