Archive of posts filed under the Lync Server 2013 category.

Lync Remote Code Execution Vulnerability – May 2013

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Microsoft has published an Important security bulletin (MS13-041) detailing a “Vulnerability in Lync [That] Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2834695)”. The bulletin is HERE. Products impacted Communicator 2007 R2 (3.5.6907.268) Lync 2010 (4.0.7577.4388) x86 x64 Lync 2010 Attendee (4.0.7577.4388) User installer Admin installer Lync Server 2013 I’ve also placed the download links on the respective …

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Lync Attendant – “Your Location Is Not Set”

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I’ve lamented before that we suffer from time to time in our efforts to localise American-designed products for the Rest Of the World. When things do misbehave, a common diagnostic step – and frequent cure – is to reset language settings back to their “native” US English. Our latest gotcha has come from Lync’s Location …

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Lync PowerShell Snippets

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Here’s an ad-hoc post with a collection of snippets of PowerShell I often seem to find myself needing to refer to. There are some more good ones here from Paul Bloem, over the pond. How do I find (and/or count) the users homed to a given FE/pool? Get-CsUser | Where-Object {$_.RegistrarPool -match “<POOL FQDN>”} | …

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Lync 2013 CU1–February 2013

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It’s here! There’s a CU1 for Lync 2013 already!! Released separately, the client updates (two of them) were released on Feb 11th, with the server side arriving on the 26th. Client Updates The client updates are detailed here, and this package includes a handful of feature enhancements, as well as the expected bugfixes. One such …

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Federating Skype and Lync

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One of the highlights of the Lync Conference in San Diego (Feb 2013) was the demonstration and revelation of much of the workings of the long-awaited Lync Federation with Skype. Here’s a bullet-point summary of what I took from the sessions: Federation will require an update to the Skype client (to v6.x – release TBD). …

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MAdCaP.ps1 – A GUI for Lync Analog Devices & Common Area Phones

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Creating and administering Analog Devices and Common Area Phones in Lync is sometimes a little tedious. I have a terrible record for forgetting to assign a PIN to Common Area Phones… Inspired by a customer (and to the horror of a purist peer) I’ve created a PowerShell script that provides a GUI for the administration …

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Viewing Truncated PowerShell Output

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Sometimes PowerShell truncates output, and if you don’t realise what’s going on, you’ll never get it to show. Where you’re expecting potentially lots more text, PowerShell replaces it with a single lousy ellipsis, cruelly taunting you. Column Width If it’s just a column width problem, the fix is simple enough: just pipe to out-string and add …

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Lync Server 2013 Topology Builder & Snooper pre-req’s for Win 7

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If you want to load the latest Lync Server 2013 “Reskit” (which contains Snooper) and Topology Builder (from the install CD) on your x64 Windows 7 machine, you’ll need a few pre-requisites: Visual C++ Redist for Visual Studio 2012 .NET 4.5 (it’ll want a reboot after) PowerShell 3.0 (part of the Windows Management Framework 3.0) …

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Profiles for Lync v2: for Lync 2010 and 2013

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  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/. It’s been a while coming, but I’ve finally updated my Profiles For Lync app. We now need two builds because the DLLs between the 2010 and 2013 Preview …

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