After now several false starts, we have a re-re-release of the September Lync 2013 Client update. This is the update that introduced speck-checking to Lync IMs, reinstated the old “chasing its tail” circular OCS presence icon in the tray, and – my favourite – “paste special”. In its current incarnation it’s designated 15.0.4535.1510 with a …
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I struck an interesting one this afternoon. BIG thanks to my colleague Dan for the incredibly simple fix. I’ve deployed an on-premises Lync 2013 for customer. Whilst ostensibly a “greenfield” installation, my initial publish of the Topology revealed there was already a Lync SCP in AD. I removed it easily enough with “Remove-CsConfigurationStoreLocation” and continued. …
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The CU3 update for Lync Server 2013 has landed, and at first glance there’s at least one high-visibility fix. My Front-End adds updates to 9 different components. What’s Fixed? There’s not a lot of detail provided – instead the descriptions are almost entirely “The cumulative update improves the reliability, stability, and performance of Lync Server …
This post has been superceded by take 3. After a false start, the September client update has been re-released. It offers some FANTASTIC improvements, although for some users it remains not without its bugs. This update for the Lync 2013 client (kb2825630) reintroduces the familiar OCS-style tray icon (taken in the July hotfix), and adds …
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As foreshadowed in yesterday’s post on the BToE plug-in / device driver, the new Polycom v5 firmware has landed. You can download the new firmware and documentation from HERE, where you’ll find the software downloads as well as release notes and the updated Admin guide. New: October 21st: Firmware 5.0.1 released. What’s New? There are …
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Polycom’s UCS v5.0.0 firmware for the VVX family and the companion PC device driver “Better Together over Ethernet” v1.0.0 have just landed and made quite a splash. You can download the new firmware and documentation from HERE. In this post I walk you through the BToE installation. It’s useless on its own, but you have …
Here’s an interesting KB a colleague stumbled across this week: kb2868300 You are unexpectedly transferred to a second PSTN call in Lync 2013 Consider the following scenario: You have an Aries or Tanjay telephone that is running Lync Phone Edition. You receive and answer a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) call. You receive a second …
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On a recent window-shopping expedition through the event logs on a customer’s Front-End I stumbled across instances of warnings 31137 & 31138. These are generated when Lync realises that users belonging to RGS Agent Groups are no longer EV-enabled, or no longer exist. During the Active Directory update non-UC enabled agents were found. The following …
A new update for the Lync 2013 client (kb2817621) takes us from “15.0.4517.1004” to “15.0.4517.1504”. “This update contains stability and performance improvements. Additionally, this update fixes the following issue: After you wake up the computer from hibernation mode, Lync 2013 becomes very slow and unusable.” Download Download it from here: x86 x64 I exited the …
I encountered a problem this week that I thought I’d document, as it offers a different solution to the others on the web. My Lync 2013 Enterprise Edition pool wasn’t well – the understatement of the week. The three FE’s were all spitting Lync Server error 41029 every 20 minutes: