My ‘mugshot’ for 2015 is the wonderfully kitsch “Ericofon”. In some markets it’s known as the “Cobra” telephone. The Ericofon was introduced into Australia around 1963 as an alternative to the standard 800-series table phone. Their insides were fully imported from Sweden and the cases moulded locally, the phones then assembled in Ericsson’s Broadmeadows factory …
Hot on the heels of – and fixing a bug introduced *in* – November’s, we now have a December update to the Lync 2013 client. Read all about kb2910927 here. This update takes the Lync 2013 Client to 15.0.4675.1000/1002. What’s Fixed? kb3017596 Sharing session stops in Lync 2013 when the display resolution of a shared …
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Another one! We seem to be on a three-weekly cycle at the moment! (November’s I wrote up here). This update takes Lync Server 2013 from 5.0.8308.834 to 5.0.8308.857. What’s Fixed? Of the four MSIs in this update, only ONE has any specific fixes mentioned, with the others containing the usual improvements to the “reliability, stability, …
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If you’re deploying a gateway and interfacing to Telstra’s Australian “SIP Connect” SIP trunk service you’ll need to know a few values. Most of the below you’ll get from the relevant Telstra and/or gateway integration guides. Each state and territory has its own SBC and Telstra STRONGLY prefers you reference these by their host name …
Yealink’s not a brand you normally associate with Lync and the corporate end of town, but perhaps as an indicator of the strength of the Lync brand they’ve thrown their hat into the ring and released two phone models with firmware for Lync. I managed to get my mitts on the high-end “T48G” and thought …
One of the significant edges that the Sonus SBC 1k/2k (nee UX 1000 and UX 2000) voice gateways / Session Border Controllers have over the competition is the real-time visibility of calls. You can sit back and watch them as they delicately twinkle into existence and later clear, or have your adrenalin rush as you …
As Michael LaMontagne so succinctly put it on Twitter, the monthly CU’s we’ve been seeing recently are to make up for the dearth of them at the start of the year. And so it is that three weeks after the October update we have another, this time taking Lync Server 2013 from 5.0.8308.831 to 5.0.8308.834. …
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We have a November update to the Lync client. Read all about KB2899507 here. This update takes the Lync 2013 Client to 15.0.4667.1000/1001. What’s Fixed? 3010340 Video freezes consistently for two second-intervals when you make a video call in Lync 2013 3009723 Incorrect format of string in a trace statement when application sharing session viewers …
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Since paying US$8.5Billion for Skype back in 2011, Microsoft’s been slowly absorbing its technology into the existing Lync product. Last year we saw Federation between Skype and Lync (albeit with some caveats), this year it was the inclusion of Skype’s “SILK” codecs into the Lync clients, and now today it’s official: “vNext” of Lync (to …
The only thing better than a CU for Lync is a CU that contains fixes you personally recognise. And so it is with this update. An October 2014 update for Lync Server 2013 has landed, taking the Server from 5.0.8308.815 to 5.0.8308.831. What’s Fixed? Only the Front-End, Edge & Core Components get a refresh in …