SfB "Cannot park call right now"

I’m on record saying Call Park is my favourite PABX feature, and its great that we have it available to us in Skype for Business. “Parking” a call transfers it off to a “holding bay” where the caller hears MOH until such time as someone retrieves the call. If they’re left waiting too long a …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – February 2017

Our February update fixes a handful of issues in the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client (KB3161988), and in so doing it takes us from 15.0.4893.1000 to 15.0.4903.1001. What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb4010268 Make High Importance IM messages more prominent in Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013) Kb4010264 “Search Chat Room History” pushes …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – January 2017

The New Year’s off to a cracker of a start with this week’s update to the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client (Kb3141468), which takes us from 15.0.4885.1000 to 15.0.4893.1000. What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb3213025 Meeting link is disabled in Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013) when Exchange servers of both organizations have …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – December 2016

Our pre-Christmas update (KB3127976) takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4875.1001 to 15.0.4885.1000, and boy is it bursting with Christmas cheer! What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb3207126 Whiteboard content is truncated when it’s saved in Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013) Kb3207125 Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013) crashes when sign-in …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – November 2016

This week’s update (KB3127934) takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4867.1000 to 15.0.4875.1001. What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb3200788 “The web page was not loaded in response to you clicking the link” error in Lync 2013 (Skype for Business) Kb3200787 Some Lync 2013 and Skype for Business 2016 functionalities don’t work …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Security Update – October 2016

This week’s security update takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4859.1000 to 15.0.4867.1001. It’s listed as Critical as there’s the risk of remote code execution. Kb3118348 “MS16-120: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Lync 2013 and Skype for Business. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – September 2016

This week’s update (kb3118281) takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4849.1000 to 15.0.4859.1000 (although it’s reported elsewhere as 15.0.4859.1002). What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb3188806 Slow performance to merge two conference calls into one call in Lync 2013 (Skype for Business) Kb3188248 Block the collection of Census data within Lync 2013 …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Security Update – August 2016

This week’s security update takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4841.1000 to 15.0.4849.1000. It’s listed as Critical as there’s the risk of remote code execution. Kb3115431 “MS16-097: Description of the security update for Lync 2013 (Skype for Business): August 9, 2016. This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Lync 2013 and Skype for Business …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – July 2016

This week’s update (Kb3115261) just 4 weeks after our last takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4833.1000 to 15.0.4841.1000. What’s Fixed Kb3172197 Notifications for incoming calls don’t always appear in Lync 2013 (Skype for Business) Kb3172193 Can’t change presenters by using Meeting Options when a room resource is added in Lync 2013 (Skype for …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – June 2016

This week’s bumper update takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4809.1000 to 15.0.4833.1000. What’s Fixed KB 3169048 Specifics the E_UNEXPECTED error when you join a meeting in Lync 2013 (Skype for Business) KB 3169046 Adds a report that defines sign-in failures along with the Heartbeat Telemetry in Lync 2013 (Skype for business) KB 3169045 …

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