Hi from Vegas! The Keynote presentation here at the 2014 LyncConf has gotten the conference off to a great start today. As expected – having been foreshadowed 12 months ago at LyncConf13 – high-definition video between Skype and Lync participants is imminent. That was demo’d to us this morning, and I see there’s a technical …
This post is obsolete. ‘Profiles’ has been replaced by bounSky! This post is obsolete. The latest Profiles post (1 Jan 2015) is here: https://greiginsydney.com/p4l-sticky/. Today marks two years since the first release of “Profiles for Lync”, and to celebrate I’ve made a few small improvements and added support for a handful of …
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My post with lots of Lync 2010 error messages is my highest-rating page, and I’ve been meaning to start an equivalent collection of Lync 2013 messages. And so it begins. Jump to the relevant section headings or just ^F to search for your specific error: Signing-In Contact Management Instant Messages Voice / Phone Calls …
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The contents of Cumulative Updates are like a bag of mixed lollies – everyone seems to have a different favourite. Mine just happens to be the first one listed in this sticky collection of kb’s – because (in this case) I’m aware of customers plagued by dodgy address book entries since their Lync 2013 was …
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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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This post has been superceded by take 3.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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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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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’ve just released an updated version of HIDnLync. It adds a few new presence states, as well as the ability to automatically run it when the user logs in to Windows. The new version is 1.0.12. Download Download it from here: Lync 2010 version Lync 2013 version Client Version Clarification As per THIS post, you …
Lync applications/utilities built using either the 2010 or 2013 client-side API software development kit (SDK) are supposed to work against all 3 major releases of the Lync client: 2010, 2013 & 2013 Basic. This means if you upgrade your client from Lync 2010 to the 2013 release, your third party utils (like my Profiles for …