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). …
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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Much has been written about Lync’s Address Book service. We know that Lync generates a Full address book file nightly at 1:30am by default, and also creates daily update files (Delta and Compact) that clients download daily in an incremental backup sorta way. (Here’s a good description of how ABS does what it does). The …
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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 …
Lync’s Response Group (herein “RGS”) is a great entry-level hunt group and small queue / contact centre application. Out of the box (and included free with every Lync!) is lots of functionality that you can turn on and off on a per queue – or in Lync parlance, “workflow” – basis, including time-of-day, day-of-week & …
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Lync 2010 CU7 is here! It takes the server to .205, the client to .4356, and OCPE to .<TBA>. Of interest to me in this update: 2739693 “Presence unknown” status is displayed for a user’s contacts after you install update 2571543 [CU3 – or later!] in Lync 2010 (This one’s just made my month!!)
This post is obsolete. ‘Profiles’ has been replaced by bounSky! This post is obsolete.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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This one’s been kicking about for a while, but I thought I’d document it here. If for whatever reason you don’t want a Lync meeting to launch in the client, just append “?sl=1” to the end of the invitation URL: https://meet.contoso.com.au/greiginsydney/ABC123?sl=1 The meeting will launch a page (the image below) that gives you the option …
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I was recently presented with the challenge of how to manage a customer’s client upgrades from OCS to Lync. Users on the company’s domain are OK and catered for with SCCM to push the necessary upgrade, but there are apparently some remote users on workgroup machines that are immune to policy and other sneaky management …
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Superceded 12th Nov2012 by the Mk-II. A not uncommon user-misconfiguration for a Lync user is to find their account possessing a LineURI (their “msRTCSIP-Line”) telephone number, but for them to not be enabled for Enterprise Voice. This more commonly occurs in the early stages of a deployment (ahead of cutover), or as the on-site admins …
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