Having been inundated with Lync work since it was released over a year ago, I’ll admit to having not paid a lot of attention to OCS. Once area where OCS continues to play a part in Lync installations is the IM functionality we now enjoy through Exchange 2010 OWA. Those are actually OCS components you’re …
Updated 5th April 2012: The server & client components are obsoleted by CU “5.5”, aka server 4.0.7577.197 / client 4.0.7577.4087. The update for Lync CU5 is here, and there are some nice fixes in this latest batch.
This one took me a little by surprise… I wasn’t expecting another update so soon after CU4 arrived in Santa’s stocking. CU4 was Client update 4.0.7577.4051, but today I stumbled across .4061, released on January 28th. If any more updates emerge I’ll amend this listing to add them… Client (4.0.7577.4061) x86 x64 Enjoy!
Ståle Hansen has published a great PowerShell script that digs through the Lync CsUnassignedNumber list and mashes it against all of the possible uses of a number (including CsAnalogDevices, CommonAreaPhones, RGS, UMContacts and more) to report what numbers in a given number range are currently spare. It fills a yawning (and frustrating gap) in the …
The NET Tenor appears to have a bug in its “108 Routing” (a feature enhancement I wrote of here and here). If you make a call to an FXS port that’s busy, the Tenor reports “SIP/2.0 503 Service Unavailable” instead of “SIP/2.0 486 Busy here”, and this is reflected back to the calling party. A …
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Sometimes what seems an obvious PowerShell filter request is rejected. The parameter you’re seeking is visible when you get-user (Exchange) or get-csUser (Lync), but you’re still rejected. The error message is the rather bleak and uninspiring: Invoke-Command : Cannot bind parameter ‘Filter’ to the target. Exception setting “Filter”: “”UMDialPlan” is not a recognized filterable property. …
Before you commit to going CU4, make sure your Gateways are at a compatible version of firmware. For the NET UX and VX, the minimum supported versions are: VX 4.7.5v55 UX 1.3.2 build 89 UX 2.0.1 build 118 – G.
There are a few posts on the web that address a complaint that users are unable to share desktops. One of the fixes is to ensure you have the January 2011 (CU1) update applied to the client, and perhaps some enthusiastic firewalling reigned-in. Don’t make this more complex than it needs to be though: is …
Some of Lync’s Client-side error messages don’t really explain the reason for the failure. Here are a few and what they might be indicating. I hope they make your life a little easier: Instant Messages “<username> could not be found and this message was not delivered” 1) There is no such user at the recipient’s …
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My Topology here in the Lab started with a Standard Edition FE, and I later added an EE. Accordingly, the XDS is on the SE FE, which would be considered ‘unconventional’ in the outside world, and certainly highly undesirable if you’re aiming for high availability. CU4 went on to the SE without any problems, but …