This month’s security update touches just about everything in my world it seems. Here are the relevant links for Lync Server 2013: MS15-104: Description of the security update for Microsoft Lync Server 2013: September 8, 2015 This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Lync Server. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of …
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This month’s security update touches just about everything in my world it seems, and of course Skype for Business 2015 Server is no exception: Kb3089952: Vulnerabilities in Skype for Business Server and Lync Server could allow elevation of privilege: September 8, 2015 To learn more about the vulnerability, see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-104. This update …
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This month we have another security update – and this time it includes some fixes and new/changed functionality! Kb3085500: MS15-097: Description of the security update for Microsoft Lync 2013 (Skype for Business): September 8, 2015: “This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Lync 2013. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens …
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Being two releases behind, Lync 2010 doesn’t get much of a look-in around here these days, but I shouldn’t neglect referencing the latest Security Update: Kb3075593: MS15-080: Description of the security update for Lync 2010: August 11, 2015 “This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Lync 2010. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if …
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I have a little secret to share: I get a quiet delight out of seeing news of a security update for Lync/SfB. Don’t get me wrong, I certainly don’t enjoy reading of potential vulnerabilities in the product; what I do enjoy is knowing that each security update includes all of the fixes they’d coded into …
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Hot off the press (as of July 2015) is v5 of Sonus’ SBC 1k/2k firmware, and its “Third Party Presence” feature. I covered the new features in my last post, but wanted to particularly highlight this one as it’s quite ground-breaking. I think the potential for this is vast: *any* call that’s going through the …
It’s been not 9 months since the last major upgrade to the Sonus SBC 1k/2k family. v4 came out late last year and I wrote of its benefits in early December, in particular the shedding of the Java requirement for the real-time monitor. Now v5 has landed, and it’s perhaps as impressive a leap as …
I was presented with the challenge today of updating the recorded after-hours message of many Lync Response Group workflows through PowerShell. The process wasn’t well documented anywhere, so I thought I’d publish our end solution.
I was tinkering in the Lab recently creating a new Trusted App through PowerShell, and at the “Enable-CsTopology” step it failed with a less-than-helpful error: Enable-CsTopology : Command execution failed: “1” error categories reported in topology document. At line:1 char:1 + Enable-CsTopology + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Enable-CsTopology], DeploymentException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ProcessingFailed,Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.ActivateTopologyCmdlet
The latest client update is out: the July 14, 2015, update for Lync 2013 (Skype for Business) (KB3054946). This one takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4727.1001 to 15.0.4737.1001. What’s Fixed Kb3076504 CPU usage is reduced by emoticon animations that are active in multiple conversations in Skype for Business or Lync 2013 Kb3072756 Update …
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