I’ve encountered this one twice now, so I figure it’s worthy of a post. Scenario: Your new Lync deployment looks good DhcpUtil.exe –EmulateClient works like a charm, reporting SUCCESS You plug a new Common Area phone in and jump through the config settings on screen. It logs in OK Choose either : You move it …
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March 14th, 2013: Lync 2010 CU8 has landed. It takes the server to .216 and the client to .4378. Of interest to me in this update: Server Side 2796755 Registrar service crashes on a Lync Server 2010 server when the SBA or SBS are deployed in branch sites 2796747 Intercluster routing component does not route …
Those of us with a telephony background have been rejoicing of late with the release of several Call Pickup solutions for Lync. Long conspicuous by its absence from the OCS and Lync feature list, it’s been at the top of the Cisco competitive playbook for those aiming to shoot down a Lync Enterprise Voice opportunity. …
Here’s an ad-hoc post with a collection of snippets of PowerShell I often seem to find myself needing to refer to. There are some more good ones here from Paul Bloem, over the pond. How do I find (and/or count) the users homed to a given FE/pool? Get-CsUser | Where-Object {$_.RegistrarPool -match “<POOL FQDN>”} | …
Alas, Polycom has advised that the SoundStation Connect has been pulled. I’ve left the review here to show what might have been… – Sept 2013. “Crystal-clear audio conferencing for your computer” I recently found myself in possession of a Beta version of the new Polycom SoundStation Connect and an opportunity to put it through its paces. …
It’s here! There’s a CU1 for Lync 2013 already!! Released separately, the client updates (two of them) were released on Feb 11th, with the server side arriving on the 26th. Client Updates The client updates are detailed here, and this package includes a handful of feature enhancements, as well as the expected bugfixes. One such …
One of the highlights of the Lync Conference in San Diego (Feb 2013) was the demonstration and revelation of much of the workings of the long-awaited Lync Federation with Skype. Here’s a bullet-point summary of what I took from the sessions: Federation will require an update to the Skype client (to v6.x – release TBD). …
Given that by default anyone can see a user’s presence and Personal Note, I thought it’d be an interesting challenge to see if I could turn Lync into a remote indicator panel to provide distributed monitoring of a process or an application. All we need are some sensors to interface to the real world, and …
Coming back from holidays and finding your Inbox with hundreds of new messages is something I think we all dread, especially when you KNOW many of them are no longer relevant because the sender received your OOF message and took their issue elsewhere. (Thankfully Outlook 2010’s “MailTips” have helped to reduce that figure). If you’re …
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With two USB peripherals in the market providing an external LED that mimics your Lync presence status, I thought it’d be good to compare the two. First off: the disclaimer. My employer [when I wrote this review in 2013] is the supplier of the Blynclight. It’s always difficult to write a completely fair and impartial …