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 …
We have a new update for Lync Phone Edition, although its benefit is rather localised. This LPE firmware update takes us from 4.0.7577.44451 to 4.0.7577.4455. Timezone Updates Quoting from the KB: This update adds the following new time zones for Lync Phone Edition telephones: N/A (UTC+04:00) Izhevsk, Samara (RTZ3) N/A (UTC+11:00) Chokurdakh (RTZ10) Kamchatka Standard …
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We have an October update to the Lync client and she looks to be a beauty! Read all about kb2889929 here. This update takes the Lync 2013 Client to 15.0.4659.1000/1001. What’s Fixed? 3001545 Issues occur when a user selects content in a history conversation window in Lync 2013 2996296 Application sharing without audio or video …
This post is obsolete. ‘Profiles’ has been replaced by bounSky! 25th October, 2015: I’m pleased to be able to release an update to “Profiles for Lync”, adding new functionality & squashing some tiny bugs.
ms-diagnostics: 1045;reason="Local edge server pool is out of service";pool-size="2";pool="edgepool.contoso.com";port="5061";source="MyNewSba.contoso.com" I found the above error in a client-side trace after having added a new Branch site (and SBA) to a running Lync 2013 deployment and finding Federation wasn’t working. My users – previously resident on the FE but now homed to this new SBA – were …
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A number of “Important” security updates have hit this week. Here are the download links for you. I’ll build upon this post in the coming days with the usual screen-grabs… Lync 2010 server (to 4.0.7577.276): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44080. (This RGS update in this one requires a reboot after installation). BEWARE: The have been multiple reports that …
I love the story of the old engineer called in from retirement to fix something at the factory only to have his $20,000 invoice for 5 minutes’ work questioned by the bean-counters. When asked for a breakdown of the charges he submitted “Chalk mark: $1, knowing where to put it: $19,999”. (Snopes says it’s a …
Twice in two months! How lucky are we? This LPE firmware update (from 4.0.7577.44450 to 4.0.7577.4451) is an interesting one… What’s Fixed? 2988196 The lock feature does not prevent users from making calls on a Lync Phone Edition telephone 2988195 Incoming call from a PSTN number is disconnected when you put the call on hold on …
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The August 2014 Client update’s just landed, with some high-value fixes therein. Read all about kb2881070 here. This update takes the Lync 2013 Client to 15.0.4641.1000.