Developing Lync: Getting Started in Lync Development: Choosing The Right Tools
I like doing DIY. It’s totally different to what I do for work, it’s hands-on and the rewards are immediate and lasting. It’s expensive though! Sometimes in the past, I’ve come up against a task that...
View ArticlePerficient: Webinar: Ensuring a Successful SharePoint Migration to the Cloud
Last week, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, it was mentioned that there are one billion Microsoft Windows and Office users today, and Office 365 is Microsoft’s fastest growing business in...
View ArticleJeff Schertz: Polycom UCS 5.1 for VVX Phones
This article was posted to serve two purposes which are to introduce the latest 5.1.1 firmware and its new features as well as detail the out of the box experience for the fifteen lucky Lync User Group...
View ArticleDeveloping Lync: Lync Development: Picking the Right API
“I want to do Lync Development, what is it I should be downloading?”Tweet ThisLync is wonderful, and enabling, and rich and a dozen other things – but that can make it complicated. Complicated to set...
View ArticleJust a Lync Guy: Microsoft updates its Active Directory Sync tool with a...
The new build version is: 6985.0000 Released 7/22/2014 Fixes Fix for installation failure in certain locales. New Features .Net 4.5.1 has become a prerequisite for installing DirSync. You can check...
View ArticleJust Another UC Blog: How-To’s in Deploying SMART Lync Room System (SRS-Lync-S)
Finally the moment has arrived! Manage to get my hands on a SMART Lync Room System (SRS-Lync-S) to hook up with my office Lync 2013 infrastructure. I’ll be skipping the “heavy metal” work on assembling...
View Article… and I thought I saw a 2: Lync M:N Routing Breaks AnalogDevices
OK, so that’s not entirely the truth – but the great Scott Hanselman says you need to have a catchy title to get ‘em in. *IF* however, you implement M:N Routing in Lync 2013 and change the trunk name...
View ArticleDeveloping Lync: Lync Development on Office 365: What’s Possible, What’s Not
There’s a lot of buzz around Lync running on Office 365 at the moment. Office 365 is getting the latest features before traditional on-premise installations, and it’s clear that Microsoft see a big...
View ArticleLyncFix: Do I need a Lync License For a Common Area Phone?
First, thank you for being an honest person and finding this article. Secondly, it depends, but we’ll walk through it. The first thing you should know is that there’s a licensing guide that covers...
View ArticleLync.Lead: DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA FAIL
This weekend some of my team members (Chris Lehr) at ExtraTeam experienced an issue with Lync services not starting at random which was caused by an issue with DigiCert’s SSL cert chain. I then...
View ArticleDeveloping Lync: Lync Development: What’s Possible
Microsoft Lync is a big product, and it can have a big impact in an organisation. It can change how people work, how they interact with each other, how they communicate. There are lots of different...
View ArticleUnify Square: CIOReview names Unify Square to the “100 Most Promising...
In a special July 2014 issue of CIOReview, the selection panel evaluated thousands of Microsoft Partners looking for companies that demonstrated the ability to provide in-depth expertise in delivering...
View ArticleUC Ryan: Adjust Default Ring Time Common Area Phones
In the new building my company moved into there are no analog lines and as such, all our phone communications are all through Lync. Due to some paper policies we are unable to create Active Directory...
View ArticleUC Ryan: Polycom VVX 5.0.1.4068 - Users Unable to Answer Calls
There's a pretty major bug in the Polycom VVX 5.0.1.4068 firmware. The bug manifests under a unique situation (has a pretty big impact on if your common area phones are VVX). The situation is as...
View ArticleLee Desmond: Set-CsClientPin: User is homed on a server that is not supported...
To change the PIN of a Common Area Phone, you went ahead to execute the following on a Lync Server 201x Front-End: Set-CsClientPin : User desmond.lee@domaino.com is homed on a server that is not...
View ArticleLync Dude: Lync 2013 LS Mediation 25051 & 25061 Event ID
Overview Howdy, So recently I had a problem with Enterprise Voice at a customer side, they had Lync 2013 Enterprise Pool consist of 2 Frontend, collocating mediation server on the same machines....
View ArticleLync.geek.nz: Lync and Exchange Web Services (EWS)
The Lync client uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) to provide client integration features such as conversation history and voicemail access.How does Lync discover Exchange Web Services?The Lync client...
View ArticleLegendary Techy: Installing and Configuring Lync 2013 “The Watcher” Node
Hello Readers, Recently I have been doing a lot of proactive monitoring of Lync 2013 to better my understanding of common SCOM/Lync Errors you may come across in the field. So in this post I will at...
View ArticlePro-Exchange: Flashback from Lync Conference : How to find out what Audio...
During my session @ Lync Conference 2014 I already explained this, but I sometimes get questions how to actually do this....
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