The long-awaited ISO has hit, and I’ve been looking forward to taking the in-place upgrade process for a spin. The snag here is that you need to kick this process off from a server already running the SfB Admin Tools – so that meant another machine. Whilst this server could have been only a short-term …
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Buried in amongst the excitement of yesterday’s arrival of the Skype for Business Server 2015 ISO on MSDN and the swarm currently descending upon Chicago is quite a worthy update to Lync Server 2013. This one takes Lync Server 2013 from 5.0.8308.871 (or 5.0.8308.872 depending upon where you look) to 5.0.8308.887. What’s Fixed? kb3051962 Lync Server …
This rather juicy update takes Lync Server 2013 from 5.0.8308.866 to 5.0.8308.871 – or 5.0.8308.872 depending upon where you look. What’s Fixed? LOTS!! KB 3037071 Location monitoring report does not show regions and site names in a Lync Server 2013 environment KB 3034784 Lync Server 2013-based client crashes or disconnects from a meeting when an …
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If you’re adding a Zeacom Contact Centre to your Lync deployment one component you don’t want to overlook is the “ZCC Lync Call Router”. You run this .msi on your FEs and SBAs and it rigs a safety net under your call centre: if it senses your Zeacom server is offline it will re-route calls …
Complaints regarding a slow meeting join process in Lync aren’t at all uncommon, and in many cases are actually as a result of IIS’s automatic recycling process, itself intended to improve reliability of the IIS websites. Drago Totev has published a fantastic process by which you can ensure your Lync IIS application pools are always …
This (our second December update) takes Lync Server 2013 from 5.0.8308.857 to 5.0.8308.866. What’s Fixed? This update appears to only address the recent meeting join issue for users of Google Chrome (as per the earlier December release), with a token mystery fix for good luck: kb3027552: The cumulative update resolves the following issue: “Google Chrome …
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Another one! We seem to be on a three-weekly cycle at the moment! (November’s I wrote up here). This update takes Lync Server 2013 from 5.0.8308.834 to 5.0.8308.857. What’s Fixed? Of the four MSIs in this update, only ONE has any specific fixes mentioned, with the others containing the usual improvements to the “reliability, stability, …
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As Michael LaMontagne so succinctly put it on Twitter, the monthly CU’s we’ve been seeing recently are to make up for the dearth of them at the start of the year. And so it is that three weeks after the October update we have another, this time taking Lync Server 2013 from 5.0.8308.831 to 5.0.8308.834. …
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Since paying US$8.5Billion for Skype back in 2011, Microsoft’s been slowly absorbing its technology into the existing Lync product. Last year we saw Federation between Skype and Lync (albeit with some caveats), this year it was the inclusion of Skype’s “SILK” codecs into the Lync clients, and now today it’s official: “vNext” of Lync (to …
The only thing better than a CU for Lync is a CU that contains fixes you personally recognise. And so it is with this update. An October 2014 update for Lync Server 2013 has landed, taking the Server from 5.0.8308.815 to 5.0.8308.831. What’s Fixed? Only the Front-End, Edge & Core Components get a refresh in …