Lync 2010 Server Update – April 2014

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Here’s the Q2 update for Lync Server 2010.

What’s Fixed

“This cumulative update improves the reliability, stability, and performance of Lync Server 2010, Core Components”.  Oh, and these bits:

  • 2954538 Application and desktop sharing features are missing when Lync Web App runs on Internet Explorer 11 or Firefox
  • 2884800 Can’t join a meeting in Lync Web App when the Region and Language format is Turkish in a Lync Server 2010 environment
  • 2954865 Conference Auto Attendant fails when users join PSTN conferences at the same time in Lync Server 2010 or Lync Server 2013

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Polycom UCS (VVX) firmware 5.0.2

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Updated Apr30th: 5.0.2 Rev D (aka 5.0.2.2756) is out, with a Heartbleed fix

In case you missed it recently, Polycom’s released v5.0.2 of its UCS firmware (which is what powers the VVX family of phones). The focus in this release is on improving its stability and the readme certainly packs a mammoth list of fixes to known issues, including problems with complex regex in dial plan normalisation rules plus transfer and pickup problems, to name but a few.

The BToE connector utility for your PC hasn’t been updated and remains at v2.0.1.

Download

You can find the whole shebang here, but you wouldn’t be the first person to be blinded by the collation of links. Here are the key ones:

Firmware / Software

Documentation

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Set-SfBClientWarnings.ps1

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I recently rebuilt my PC and was annoyed by Skype for Business popping all of the newbie nag messages that I’d previously suppressed. “There has to be a way to suppress these en-masse” I say to myself.

SigningOutOfLyncWillEndAllCalls SigningOutOfSfBWillEndAllCalls

Whilst trawling through the Registry to find them it also occurred to me that when I’m delivering end-user training I actually *want* to see these nag messages.

And thus, Set-SfBClientWarnings.ps1 was born.

This script takes an option of “default” or “expert” on the commandline (with some aliases for the hell of it) and sets the values appropriately.

PS W:\> .\Set-SfBClientWarnings.ps1 guru
PS W:\> .\Set-SfBClientWarnings.ps1 default

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Lync 2013 Client Update – April 2014

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Hot on the heels of the oft-confusing March Client update (with its seemingly inconsistent version numbering), here’s a juicy April offering with lots of identified fixes. Conspicuous by its absence is any reverting of the emoticons to the animated, unambiguous & friendly pre-SP1 ones, but let’s not harp on about that.

This update takes us to 15.0.4605.1000.

What’s New / Fixed?

Did I mention the emoticons haven’t been reverted? If you feel strongly about this, pop over to the IdeaScale website and lend your support.
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Set-UxLoggingLevel.ps1

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Following on from my recent script set-uxfxscountry-ps1, here’s another quick script that uses Vik Jaswal’s great PowerShell module for the Sonus SBC1000 & 2000 gateways.

This one queries and displays on-screen the current logging level set in the gateway and lets you change the level of ALL of the components to a new value.

I decided I wanted a script to do this as my current Lync deployment project sees me debugging a collection of gateways, and several of them are VERY heavily loaded (with over 10 E1 ISDN channels active). When these are set to Trace, you really notice the performance hit in the UI, so whilst you might leave your average SBC 1000 set to Trace forever and not worry, these busier boxes don’t permit that luxury.

So, with a quick PS command I can ramp these to Trace, collect my logs and then drop them safely back to Default or Info.
 
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Get-ReplicationHealth.ps1

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My current work project is to add an Australia-wide Lync deployment into a much larger global installation.

As part of this I’ve found it’s sometimes a challenge to monitor just those bits that I’m responsible for. The Command “get-CsManagementStoreReplicationStatus” – or “get-CsMana<tab><tab>” as I prefer to call it – outputs too much “noise”, scrolling many screens showing the health of servers on the other side of the planet, and over which I have no control (and thus, interest).

Hence, I now have a script that I can hard-code with the FEs and SBAs I’m concerned about, and it will query their replication status and give me a nice summary at the bottom of the output.
 
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Lync 2013 Client Update – March 2014

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Well, I don’t know where Summer went, but here we are, it’s March, we’re 12 days into the AU Autumn/Fall, and we have a Lync Client update to play with! Kinda.

This update is advertised as taking the Lync Client to 15.0.4569.1508 – although as I show below, that’s not my experience, and others have reported same.

What’s New / Fixed?

As is becoming customary, there’s not a lot of specifics in this update, just the usual “previously unreleased fixes that … In addition to general product fixes, these fixes include improvements in stability, performance, and security.” Only one specific fix is named in this release:

2933495 Memory leak occurs during a video call or when you rest the mouse pointer on a video icon in Lync 2013

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Tweaking Sonus Message Translations

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I recently encountered a strange problem where calls to certain test numbers stopped working as expected after we’d commissioned a new Sonus PSTN Gateway for Lync (in this case an SBC1k running 3.0.2 b271 firmware) “upstream” from the PABX.

If you called ”127 22123” from the PABX, the call just rang and rang without answer – where it should have answered instantly and spoken your CallerID back to you. (This service has lost much of its relevance of late simply because it’s just as easy to call your mobile and view the CallerID on screen, adding the 1832 prefix if the line’s normally set to hide its details by default).

Installing the Gateway “Upstream”

Just in case you’re not familiar with the scenario, let me fill in some background.

As a first step to ease an Enterprise Voice customer into Lync, we’ll often commission their new PSTN Gateway “upstream” of their PABX, and we do so just by breaking their existing ISDN service to the PABX and re-routing it through the gateway. It’s often as simple was re-routing a patch cord, although you’ll need an ISDN crossover like one of these guys for one leg.

As far as the PABX is concerned it still thinks it’s talking to the carrier, whilst to the carrier the gateway emulates a PABX.
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LyncConf14 Keynote Highlights

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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 deep-dive session tomorrow…

You can watch the full keynote here. Derek Burney gets to model another of his bright shirts and demo everything from 17:30 in. His first revelation is the new Android tablet app, which will be in the Google Play store by the end of June.
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Convert-RibbonSbcConfigToWord.ps1

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Been here before? Know the deal? Jump to the revision history to see what’s in the latest update.
… or go straight to the Downloads.

The name’s a bit of a mouthful, but “Convert-RibbonSbcConfigToWord.ps1” takes the backup file from your Ribbon/Sonus SBC/UX 1000 or 2000 gateway and creates a new Word document, with all of the important(?) configuration information captured in tables.

It started life as a way to save the tedium of screen-scraping lots of fixed frames for my as-built documents, but it quickly became apparent that it would also make a useful tool for the offline review of a gateway’s config (although it ain’t no “UxBuilder”).

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