Lync 2013: Gartner Magic Quadrant 2014

August 13, 2014, 2:13 am

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As we can see. Microsoft is now the leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant. Cisco has the latest two years been the leader.

From the report we can read this.

Microsoft Lync

Microsoft Lync offers a full suite of UC functionality that Microsoft continues to improve with each release. It integrates with Office applications, Active Directory and Skype. Microsoft has a broad set of additional business applications that will increasingly be leveraged, including Office Graph (which uses machine learning to define the context and connect users with relevant documents, conversations and people) and Cortana (a digital assistant).

The Lync partner ecosystem expanded at a rapid pace; however, more importantly, the partners’ skill level and experience in complex deployments that include voice and video also improved significantly year over year. Lync’s improved federation capabilities have proven an effective way for groups to collaborate across organizational boundaries. For cloud delivery, Microsoft offers Lync Online as part of the Office 365 suite, as well as in private cloud configurations; in both cases, partners can be leveraged for telephony. However, enterprises should be aware that Lync Online offers only a subset of the on-premises Lync solution, most notably with limited PSTN connectivity.

Enterprises that have a significant number of employees that can benefit from Lync’s collaboration model should consider the Lync solution and understand how it might change their business processes and worker productivity. Enterprises considering deploying Lync telephony or video should understand the topology and infrastructure requirements, how they will support branch offices, and (if relevant) how they will deploy and obtain global third-party support. Enterprises with advanced telephony feature requirements should also ensure that the needed functions are supported.

Strengths

Microsoft Lync continues to make significant gains in the market and is attractive to a broad range of enterprises. In many cases, it is initially deployed for its IM, presence and Web conferencing functionalities, with gradual incremental deployments of telephony and video added as follow-on phased deployments for specifically targeted groups or regions.
The vendor has significantly improved its go-to-market strategy for Lync during the last year, positioning itself to more adequately address the real-time communications requirements of enterprises over the next several years.
Microsoft has added video capabilities, including support for Lync room-based video systems and interoperability of standards-based video endpoints.
Customers report that Lync functions can be readily integrated into business processes and applications, providing new, different and effective ways to perform tasks. Often, these new functions are achieved by deploying Lync enhancements from a growing list of ecosystem partners.

Cautions

Few IT managers report that they have completely eliminated their PBXs in Lync implementations. Typically, Lync IM/presence and Web conferencing are deployed across the broader employee base, while telephony is deployed only for a subset of employees. Microsoft’s stated telephony strategy is to leverage partners for functions like endpoints, gateways and contact center; therefore, enterprises interested in PBX-level capabilities should be prepared to also invest in a number of partner solutions to achieve advanced functionality.
Gartner clients report users with non-Microsoft endpoints, such as Mac workstations, are not satisfied with the functionality and quality of the Lync UX.
Gartner clients deploying Lync with in-house staff often report that multiple partners are required to obtain a complete deployment, and that this poses challenges (for example, different partners for telephones, gateways, servers, remote support and network monitoring); additionally, it can lead to release-level incompatibilities. This can also result in difficulty obtaining an accurate total cost for Lync service and support.
Some enterprises express concern that Microsoft’s bundling, combined with proprietary protocols, will leave them locked in a closed circle of choices. Bundling includes Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, Office, Skype and Yammer. While the video interoperability is a good sign, it also serves to emphasize the lack of standards-based capabilities in the other areas, such as standard SIP endpoints and WebRTC.

The future choice

As we know that more and more companies goes for a complete Lync solutions. Here in Norway more and more are changing from classic PBX and replace it with Microsoft Lync and direct SIP solutions. With all the addons from wendors like Competella who delivers attendants and contactcenter solutions Lync is make your contactcenter to the most modern plattform for your future telephony.

The Complete report will you find here:

http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1YWQWK0&ct=140806&st=sb

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Lync.geek.nz: Lync 2013 August 2014 Client Updates Released

August 13, 2014, 2:29 am

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Updates for the Lync 2013 client have been released. For more information on updates and historic downloads see here.

Product Update	External KB
Lync 2013: August Update 2014	2881070
Lync 2013: August Update 2014 (Lynchelp)	2881083

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Dr. Lync: August 2014 update for Lync 2013 is out.

August 13, 2014, 6:49 am

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August 2014 update for Lync 2013 (KB2881070) is out and can be found here.

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Lync-Exchange: Lync Call Concurrency and SIP Channel Usage

August 13, 2014, 9:04 am

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The topic of ‘how many SIP channels is Lync using’ has come up in blogs and forums quite a few times, but I still get asked and I don’t really have an answer or solution that I’m truly happy giving, either Performance Monitor for “live view”, or to buy 3rd party product. So I looked […]

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y0av. With a zero.: Lync 2013 Edge Network Diagram

August 15, 2014, 1:23 am

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No news here: there are many versions of this on the internet, and we’re all using the old one: (Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg425891.aspx) This diagram is important in any Lync discussion as it shows exactly the ports and protocols required for Lync Edge servers and Reverse Proxy, and the traffic flow between the DMZ and the LAN. However,…

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Unify Square: Statistical Sampling Simplifies User Satisfaction Measurement

August 12, 2014, 10:23 am

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Here at Unify Square we firmly believe a truly successful Lync deployment lies in end-user satisfaction. When users are happy with Lync, they improve collaboration and reduce the cost of communications. The user-satisfaction mantra drives everything we do and we think it should drive you, too. Getting your users’ opinion is a good way to measure success and can help focus improvements and investments. But, as soon as you want to start listening to your users you will face the question of who to survey.

If your user base is around 100 employees or less, the answer is usually pretty straight forward: Just ask everyone. This is more of a census than a survey, but the small population size makes it feasible.

For bigger corporations, setting up a survey is a bit more involved. For example, let’s say you have 30,000 users. Inviting everyone to take your survey might not be such a good idea. There are obvious challenges which make targeting a survey rather difficult. Users are in different time zones and locations and they possibly speak different languages. There are also the less obvious productivity costs of running a survey. Take our example of 30,000 users taking a quick, one-minute survey. Just this one survey adds up to a whopping total of 500 work hours.

Statistics Luckily, there is no need to survey tens of thousands of users at once. The reason is a statistical concept called “survey sampling.” According to Wikipedia, survey sampling is the process of selecting a sample of elements from a target population in order to conduct a survey. Even if you’ve never heard this term before, you have certainly seen it applied in everyday life. Anytime you hear a story on the news claiming that “48% of the population is in support of [something],” a survey sample was used to get what is considered a statistically relevant result.

So, how did the surveyor arrive at the result? Did they go out and ask every single member of the population about their opinion? Certainly not. Instead, they only asked a few people, and extrapolated the results to be representative of the entire target population. This is a common concept, and a widely used and accepted practice (exit polls after elections are another good example) when it comes to surveys.

Now you are thinking about the number of people you need to survey to get an accurate result. Your number needs to hold up to the scrutiny of your peers and the boss. This is where “Sample Size Determination” helps guide your survey program. You can read all about how this complex formula works on Wikipedia. For the purpose of this blog post, the short version of the equation is that you need two simple data points to choose your sample size:

1. How many people are in the total population?

2. What is the level of certainty you want that the results represent the total population?

The first data point is straight forward (30,000 in our example), but the second data point requires explanation. The level of certainty is called the “Confidence Level.” In regular speak, the confidence level lets you claim “We are 96% confident that the gathered results are representative.” As a surveyor, you select the confidence level you desire. This selection directly influences the number of people in the survey sample size. Let’s take a look at how many of the 30,000 users we’ll have to include in our survey, given a few common confidence levels:

Confidence Level	Users to Survey
95%	380
97%	464
99%	650

(This table assumes a standard margin of error of 5%)

As you can see, even if we go for the highest possible confidence level, we only need to get the opinion of 650 users to achieve a 99% representative result. Interestingly enough, even for a huge population of 300 million, the sample size only increases slightly to a total of 664 users.

By using a statistically relevant sample of the user population, you can save a lot of time and get your survey results quickly.

Next time you are shopping for a survey tool to get the pulse of your user population, make certain it can help you determine your best sample size. Unify Square PowerSat is a terrific choice to implement a regular program of measuring user satisfaction. PowerSat uses the convenience of Microsoft Lync Instant Message to engage users when they are available, yielding extraordinary response rates. Better yet, when you set up surveys in PowerSat, the system lets you choose your desired confidence level and handles the sample size determination for you.

Regardless of the survey tool, our Lync experts suggest checking user satisfaction monthly and tracking the number as a KPI. Using survey sampling enables your team to quickly and consistently track the KPI, monitor trends and take action when needed. The end result will be happier users and improved ROI for the Lync initiative.

Author

Thomas Christmann, Software Engineer

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Mastering MS UC: Quick Lync Fix: Requesting Lync Certificates from Comodo

August 15, 2014, 9:04 am

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Have you recently tried requesting a certificate for your Lync environment from Comodo? If you used the Lync Certificate Wizard to generate the request, you will probably run into the same issue I did during a recent deployment - they will reject the request with a non-specific error. Why? There is currently a bug in their system that prevents them from processing the request if there are capital letters embedded in the CSR. The significance here is that when using the Lync Certificate Wizard to generate the CSR, it will maintain the case of the letters used within Topology Builder. Additionally, the Lyncdiscover and Lyncdiscoverinternal names that are automatically added through the wizard to the CSR have the first letter capitalized. Fortunately, we have a couple options to resolve this.

Read more »

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Just a Lync Guy: Weekly IT Newsletter – August 11-15, 2014

August 17, 2014, 7:22 pm

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UC, My Experiences: Lync for Mac: Addressbook search not working.

August 18, 2014, 3:00 am

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When you try to search for a contact in Lync which is not in your contact list, the client would normally display all matching results from your company’s addressbook. However, sometimes this is not working as expected, and you might be wondering why it suddenly stopped. The answer to this is a corrupt user profile […]

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Doug Deitterick's Blog: Issue Installing August 2014 Cumulative Update for Microsoft Lync Server 2013

August 19, 2014, 1:32 pm

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You may encounter an issue while trying to install the August 2014 Cumulative Update for Microsoft Lync Server 2013 on a computer with just the Lync Server Core Components and/or Lync Server Administration Tools installed. In the screenshot below, you can see that I only have the Lync Server Core Components and Lync Server Administration Tools installed:

If I try to apply the August 2014 Cumulative Update for Microsoft Lync Server 2013:

I get the following error message:

There were errors during the installation process. For details, see the log file at C:\Users\Administrator.TEST\Desktop\Lync_patchinstallerlog-TEST-LS15-MGMT-[2014-08-19][15-53-17].txt

and you can see that the Lync Server Core Components aren't updated:

For more information on this issue, please see KB2993188.

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Lasse's blog about tech@work: #NLD14 - Norwegian Lync Day announced

August 12, 2014, 2:35 pm

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Lync Day 2014 http://lyncday.no/ has just been announced. It is going to be an international event, packed with sessions from Lync MVP's and other high level speakers. There's going to be at least two tracks this day, one for desicionmakers and one for more technical focused delegates. I was humbled by the request from the organizers to hold a session based on my backup and restore script and

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LyncFix: New Tool: Lync Common Area Phone Management (GUI)

August 12, 2014, 3:15 pm

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Update (August 15, 2014): We’re just a few days in and there’s already a revision :) Based on conversations I’ve had, there’s a desire for a 2010 version as well. There are also environments that are mixed 2010/2013. I have modified this tool to work equally well with both. The commands behind the GUI are similar, however the 2010 commands do not have the ability to set PersistentChat, Mobility, or VoiceRoutingPolicy (hybrid O365 voice environments). I can’t imagine these are policies that would ever be needed, however if you find a need, I can re-enable it for you.

Update (August 19, 2014): Version 1.2 released with the ability to modify multiple phones at once and filter by pool: http://www.lyncfix.com/?p=757

I created this tool to allow you to add, modify, and remove Lync common area phones with an easy to use graphical front end. This functionality is not available within the Lync Control Panel and even modifications via the Lync Management Shell can be difficult to those who don’t have to modify them often.

I hope you find this tool straightforward to use. From a Lync server, you can simply right click it and run it. However, due to the modules it loads, it may start faster if you start it from a Lync Management Shell. The opening screen looks like what you see below. The glaring red warning is just a note to let you know that sometimes replication can take a bit of time and you may need to hit the refresh buttons a few times before you see updated data. Within a six server Enterprise pool I was watching it take upwards of 8 seconds.

You should see a listing of all of your common area phones in front of you. From here, just select them in the left box and change any settings you’d like. As you change the settings, the colors of the fields should turn green letting you know that a change is pending. Once you’re ready, click the Save Changes button. If you change the DisplayName attribute, you’ll receive a warning letting you know to refresh your phone list. This is because this we use this name to display and reference the phones in the GUI and behind the scenes.

Clicking the Refresh Phone List button refreshes the list of Common Area Phones and redisplays them. Clicking the Refresh Phone box only refreshes the information shown in the right side of the screen.

Clicking the Set Pin button resets the pin for the selected phone. If you enter a pin and receive a failure, the tool is intelligent enough to let you know the error. In the below screenshots, we highlight a phone, click the Set Pin button, enter a pin and click OK. The pin we’ve entered is too short however and we receive an error. Had we entered a pin with the required number of digits, we would have been returned back to the tool without additional prompts.

To remove a phone, simply highlight the phone of your choice and click the Remove Phone button. You will be prompted for a confirmation before you delete.

To add a new phone, click the Create Phone button. A new dialog will pop up which will allow you to supply information about the phone. The OU, Pool, LineURI and DisplayName are required fields, and if you miss one of these you will be notified before you click Create. The others can be left as is. Typing an OU in can be cumbersome, so I’ve also added a Browse button that will load all of your OUs as well as the users container. Drill in and select the OU you want the Common Phone to be created in and click the Select button. Once you’re ready, click the Create button. You may need to wait a moment and click the Refresh Phone List button before the data is available to the GUI.

My own future thoughts for improvement include a multi-select mode where you could select multiple phones and modify them as a group. Let me know if you’d like to see this implemented.

If you have any thoughts, comments, bug reports, or feature requests, the Q/A section in the TechNet gallery is the best place, but I’m also watching here as well.

As with any free tool you find on the Internet, use at your own risk!

To download the program, please find it here in the TechNet Gallery: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/lync/Lync-2013-Common-Area-57bc4ff1

If you like it, please give it 5 stars over at the TechNet Gallery. If not, please drop me a line before you rate it and give me a chance at fixing whatever bug you may have found. I might also be able to add a feature you’d like to see!

Thanks again and let me know what you think!

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… and I thought I saw a 2: Lync 2013 Client Update – August 2014

August 12, 2014, 4:15 pm

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The August 2014 Client update’s just landed, with some high-value fixes therein. Read all about kb2881070 here.

This update takes the Lync 2013 Client to 15.0.4641.1000.

What’s Fixed?

The update includes some GREAT bugfixes, with particular appeal to those still running Outlook 2010:

2985514 Lync 2013 signs out and then signs in every 30 minutes
2985513 Lync 2013 crashes when you manipulate a pivot table field during an Excel worksheet presentation
2985512 Error “Event ID from source Lync cannot be found” instead of event logs from Lync 2013 appears in Event Viewer
2981755 Cannot join a meeting by using Lync 2013 when the ACP MCU services are running on multiple front-end servers
2981754 Cannot send CER data when a user cannot join meetings in Lync 2013
2981753 Lync 2013 meeting issues after you install Lync Meeting Add-in for Office 2013
2981752 Cannot select audio device during a VoIP call in Lync 2013 when a user is enabled for RCC
2981751 Lync 2013 does not display telephone number of an Outlook 2010 contact in the contact card
2981749 Artifacts remain in chat input area in Lync 2013 after an instant message is sent
2981748 Lync 2013 dials the number that calls are forwarded to instead of the last dialed number
2981747 A user’s work number is listed in the “Forward Calls To” list in Lync 2013
2981746 Cannot paste data from a webpage to Lync 2013 conversation window
2981745 Can’t join online meeting that is created in a non-federated organization by using Lync 2013
2981743 Can’t sign in to Lync 2013 by using a cached certificate in Lync online hybrid deployment

What’s New?

2981750 An update enables Lync 2013 users to select the default unselected check boxes for saving instant message and call logs

After you install this update, the following check boxes can be set to be unselected as default in Lync 2013. Additionally, an endpoint user can select or click to clear the check boxes in the Lync 2013 client.

The Save IM conversation in my email Conversation History folder check box
The Save call logs in my email Conversation History folder check box

Note To set these check boxes to be unselected as default, administrator must run the following command:

Set-CsClientPolicy –Identity global –DefaultEnableIMAutoArchiving $false –DefaultEnableCallLogAutoArchiving $false

Known Issues

Screen-readers appear to be an ongoing problem, and they’re back on the known issues list again this update:

2898357 Screen readers cannot read aloud keystrokes during a Lync 2013 application or desktop sharing session in Windows
2932389 Persistent Chat file transfer fails between an external user and an internal user in Lync 2013

Pre-Requisites

Two of these have been updated since the June update:

Update	Download	Current Version	Released
Office 2013 MSO (kb2883052)	x86 x64	1.0	4 August 2014
MSORES (kb2817624)	x86 x64	1.0	6 Sept 2013
IDCRL (kb2820640)	x86 x64	1.0	6 May 2014
LyncHelp (kb2881083)	x86 x64	1.0	2 August 2014

Download

Reboot?

Alas, yes. The MSO update requested a reboot.

Before & After

Here’s a before and after comparison of my client on a Windows 8.1 machine.

Before	After
Lync 15.0.4623.1000 MSO 15.0.4631.1000	Lync 15.0.4641.1000 MSO 15.0.4641.1001

- G.

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Mastering Lync: Client Registry Keys (Part 5)

August 12, 2014, 7:38 pm

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Client Registry Keys – Part One (General & Personal Tab)

Client Registry Keys – Part Two (Contacts List & Status Tab)

Client Registry Keys – Part Three (My Picture & Phones Tab)

Client Registry Keys – Part Four (Alerts, Persistent Chat & Ringtones and Sounds)

Client Registry Keys – Part Five (Audio Device, Video Device, Call Forwarding, File Saving, Recording & Lync Meetings)

Audio Device Tab

Description	Reg Key	Values	Client Policy
Secondary Ringer	SecondaryRingerIsEnabled	0/1	N/A
Also Ring	N/A	N/A	N/A
Unmute when my phone rings	UnmuteSpeakerOnIncomingCall	0/1	N/A
Allow stereo audio playback when available	N/A	N/A	N/A

These settings are in a different place than all of the other client registry settings. You can find them all here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\UCCPlatform\Lync\

Video Device Tab

Description	Reg Key	Values	Client Policy
Crop and center my video in meetings	CropOutgoingVideo	0/1	N/A

These settings are in the normal place. No need to hunt around. (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync\)

Call Forwarding Tab

All of these settings are stored in your presence documents. So we will leave that for another time.

File Saving Tab

Description	Reg Key	Values	Client Policy
Save to	FtReceiveFolder	C:\Users\Richard\Documents\My Received Files	N/A

Recording Tab

Description	Reg Key	Values	Client Policy
Save to	RecordingRootDirectory1	C:\Users\Richard\Videos\Lync	N/A
Image Resolution	PublishResolution	0 - 480p 1 – 720p HD 2 – 1080p Full HD (Highest)	N/A

These settings are found here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync\Recording

Lync Meetings Tab

Description	Reg Key	Values	Client Policy
Show IM	ShowIMForLyncMeetings	0 / 1	N/A
Show the Participant List	ShowRosterForLyncMeetings	0 / 1	N/A

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Just a Lync Guy: Script: Exchange Certificates Report

August 12, 2014, 9:37 pm

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I’ve recently created a script (with the help of @y0avb) which generates an HTML report for Certificates in a Lync environment.
Since Certificates are widely been used in almost every Microsoft environment, we’ve decided to modify the script a bit and add the same functionality for Exchange.

The following script will query for every Exchange 2010/2013 server in the Environment and pull the following information on every Certificates which is assigned to an Exchange Service:

Services Assigned
Issuer
Thumbprint
Subject Name
Issue Date
Expiration Date
Self Signed or Not
Subject Alternative Names
Expires In (Days)

Script Features:

The script pulls the information from every server by using Get-Exchange Server cmdlet
The script support Exchange Certificates assignment awareness, meaning it only pull the certificates assigned to Exchange services
The Script query every exchange server in the environment which is Exchange 2010/2013
Certificates which are about to expire in the next 30 days will be colored in Red, Certificates which will expire in the next 60 days will be colored in orange
The script can also be configured to send email as well as being a scheduled task in order to be notified on a weekly/monthly basis.

The current caveats in this version of the script

Does not pull Exchange EDGE Certificates information
Does not pull Exchange 2007 Certificates Information

Version Control:

0.1 – August-13-2014 – Initial Version for connecting Internal Exchange Servers

Output:

Download:

Filed under: Exchange, Script Tagged: Certificates, PowerShell, Report, Script

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Lee Desmond: Update Digest: Lync 2013 Cumulative Update (Aug 2014)

August 12, 2014, 10:15 pm

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August 2014 update for Lync 2013 (KB2881070) Prerequisites - MSO (KB2883052, August 2014) - MSORES (KB2817624, September 2013) - IDCRL (KB2817626, September 2013) - Lynchelp (2881083, August 2014) Download lync2013-kb2881070-fullfile-x..-glb.exe (x86, x64) Keywords: patch, hotfix, update, rollup package, lync cumulative update (Lync 2013), lync client, security, cu update, mise à jour, cu, [...]

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Exchangepro.dk: Lync Server 2013 Updates – August 2014

August 13, 2014, 12:25 am

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Microsoft has released a long waiting update for Lync Server 2013, which is the first one since January 2014.

It fixes these issues:

Frontend and Edge Servers

2976568 Address book delta files are not generated in a Lync Server 2013 Enterprise Edition environment
2967626 Error “creating procedure RtcResetAbAttributes” when you run “Install-CsDatabase” for rtcab database in Lync Server 2013
2967629 Significant bandwidth usage increase by SIP traffic in a Lync Server 2013 environment
2967630 Callee receives a missed call notification after answering a call on an IP telephone in a Lync Server 2013 environment
2979931 Error “I can’t find the meeting with that number” when PSTN user dials in to conference in Lync Server 2013 environment

Web Components

2978444 Update for Lync Server 2013 to disable Lync Web App users’ ability to upload and show PPT in online meetings
2976906 Incorrect time zone is displayed when you create a meeting by using Web Scheduler in a Lync Server 2013 environment
2967623 Error “This content cannot be displayed” or blank webpage when you click a dial-in URL in a Lync Server 2013 environment
2967624 HD video stutters in a Lync Server 2013 based video conference in Lync 2013
2967628 Telephone numbers are missing in a contact card in a Lync Server 2013-based Lync mobile client

Core Components

2967621 Error 404 when Lync phones sign in to Lync Server 2013 front-end servers during SBS failure recovery
2967631 Error “”DistributionGroupAddress” and “AgentsByUri” must be set.” when you migrate the RG service to Lync Server 2013

And reliability, stability, and performance Updates to UCMA 4, Administrative tools and Web Conferencing Server

Get the update here

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Exchangepro.dk: Lync 2013 Client update – August 2014

August 13, 2014, 12:52 am

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Microsoft has released the august 2014 update for the Lync 2013 client, which resolves these issues:

2985514 Lync 2013 signs out and then signs in every 30 minutes
2985513 Lync 2013 crashes when you manipulate a pivot table field during an Excel worksheet presentation
2985512 Error “Event ID from source Lync cannot be found” instead of event logs from Lync 2013 appears in Event Viewer
2981755 Cannot join a meeting by using Lync 2013 when the ACP MCU services are running on multiple front-end servers
2981754 Cannot send CER data when a user cannot join meetings in Lync 2013
2981753 Lync 2013 meeting issues after you install Lync Meeting Add-in for Office 2013
2981752 Cannot select audio device during a VoIP call in Lync 2013 when a user is enabled for RCC
2981751 Lync 2013 does not display telephone number of an Outlook 2010 contact in the contact card
2981750 An update enables Lync 2013 users to select the default unselected check boxes for saving instant message and call logs
2981749 Artifacts remain in chat input area in Lync 2013 after an instant message is sent
2981748 Lync 2013 dials the number that calls are forwarded to instead of the last dialed number
2981747 A user’s work number is listed in the “Forward Calls To” list in Lync 2013
2981746 Cannot paste data from a webpage to Lync 2013 conversation window
2981745 Can’t join online meeting that is created in a non-federated organization by using Lync 2013
2981743 Can’t sign in to Lync 2013 by using a cached certificate in Lync online hybrid deployment

Get the update here

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Pro-Exchange: August 2014 update for Lync 2013

August 13, 2014, 1:17 am

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Download the update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2881070/

Prerequisites

To install this Lync 2013 update, make sure that the following updates are installed:

MSO (KB2883052, August 2014)

Download the 32-bit MSO update package now.

Download the 64-bit MSO update package now.

MSORES (KB2817624, September 2013)

Download the 32-bit MSORES update package now.

Download the 64-bit MSORES update package now.

IDCRL (KB2817626, September 2013)

Download the 32-bit IDCRL update package now.

Download the 64-bit IDCRL update package now.

Lynchelp (2881083, August 2014)

Download the 32-bit Lynchelploc update package now.

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This update resolves the following issues:

2985514 Lync 2013 signs out and then signs in every 30 minutes
2985513 Lync 2013 crashes when you manipulate a pivot table field during an Excel worksheet presentation
2985512 Error "Event ID from source Lync cannot be found" instead of event logs from Lync 2013 appears in Event Viewer
2981755 Cannot join a meeting by using Lync 2013 when the ACP MCU services are running on multiple front-end servers
2981754 Cannot send CER data when a user cannot join meetings in Lync 2013
2981753 Lync 2013 meeting issues after you install Lync Meeting Add-in for Office 2013
2981752 Cannot select audio device during a VoIP call in Lync 2013 when a user is enabled for RCC
2981751 Lync 2013 does not display telephone number of an Outlook 2010 contact in the contact card
2981750 An update enables Lync 2013 users to select the default unselected check boxes for saving instant message and call logs
2981749 Artifacts remain in chat input area in Lync 2013 after an instant message is sent
2981748 Lync 2013 dials the number that calls are forwarded to instead of the last dialed number
2981747 A user's work number is listed in the "Forward Calls To" list in Lync 2013
2981746 Cannot paste data from a webpage to Lync 2013 conversation window
2981745 Can’t join online meeting that is created in a non-federated organization by using Lync 2013
2981743 Can't sign in to Lync 2013 by using a cached certificate in Lync online hybrid deployment

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