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 …
Here’s a cute one: after a period of inactivity the CX600 signs the user out and shows the following error: “Sign-in Error. Account used is not authorized. Please contact your support team.”
I’m big on consistency, so who am I to break with tradition? Every OTHER blog on the internet has re-posted the links to CU4, so why should mine be any different?
Lync and Exchange will let you customise and import new recordings for various greetings, voice announcements, messages, etc. Here are the respective requirements for the audio file formats. The source is hyperlinked or referenced beneath each item. Yes, some of this is a cut and paste job. Before You Start Just taking any old audio …
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Updated 12th December 2011. (Scroll to the bottom) We’ve found here in Oz with the UX that occasionally a random failure code from the carrier is enough to block the entire gateway. The NET faithfully interprets the applicable standards, mapping the ISDN failure messages to their SIP equivalents, then sends the resulting message to Lync. …
This post is obsolete. ‘Profiles’ has been replaced by bounSky! This post is WAAAAY obsolete. ;-) The latest Profiles post (1 Jan 2015) is here: https://greiginsydney.com/p4l-sticky/. A free multi-user account management application for Lync. If you’re following my exploits here you might have seen my “C-Change PHP” application, and the accompanying disclaimer …
Microsoft’s provided great, customisable training material for Lync. Download the Lync training intranet site and publish on your webserver, applying your own CSS to give them a look and feel consistent with the rest of your organisation. If you don’t want to go to that effort, check out this link. From here you can drill down …
This is one of those posts selfishly for my own use. Until I start to dream in Lync PowerShell commandlets I’ll be referring back to this one to get the syntax right. Today I need to see how many users were homed to a particular Front-End server, and here’s the commandlet I used. It demonstrates …
I’ve loved phones since I was a kid, and possess a small collection including my grandmother’s Commonwealth Ericsson and a candlestick, as well as the usual more modern plastic and Bakelite affairs. The mechanical aspects of payphones always fascinated me, so I have some of them here too. I’ve had a “Pyramid” phone here for …