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Pro-Exchange: Skype TX for media broadcast (RTM)
Microsoft is committed to giving their users the best Skype experience possible on all platforms – which is why they created Skype TX technology specifically for use within a studio environment.Skype...
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Lee Desmond: Update MS14-055: Vulnerabilities in Lync Could Allow Denial of...
From MS14-055:” Why was this bulletin revised on September 15, 2014? Microsoft revised this bulletin to address a known issue that prevented users from successfully installing security update 2982385...
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Mastering Lync: Quick Tip: Automating SQL Reporting Reports
There are a ton of great tools available from both Microsoft and third party providers for reporting information about your Lync deployment. One of the often overlooked options we have is to automate...
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I'm a UC: Lync Room System Conferencing Policy...
When scheduling a Lync meeting it’s important that you add your Lync meeting credentials to the Outlook invitation, this is a fairly obvious requirement and in the case whereby this isn’t added you...
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Moving Immovable Users
This is probably the first of a few blog posts regarding a problem we are facing with our Lync 2013 environment. In short, we have 2 corrupt routing groups right now. Users assigned to those routing...
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Matt Landis: snom m65 DECT Phone with Multi-Cell Roaming
Looks like snom has released a DECT portable phone with multi-cell roaming capability. At the moment it appears to have standard SIP firmware. Since snom is quite Lync focused, what about Lync? Well,...
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Jason Shave: Understanding client sign in behavior before and after a failure
In this post I'll cover the changes in Lync 2013's sign in process and discuss the various scenarios which could result in an outage or client-facing impact to the user experience.If you've studied the...
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Pro-Exchange: Our next event : Lync Room System
Our next event will be focussed around Lync Room System (LRS), this event will be held at multiple locations (Westcon, Microsoft & Ordina) to really experience the awesomeness of Lync Room Systems...
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Jeff Schertz: Updating CX5100 and CX5500 Firmware
An earlier article entitled Polycom CX5100 for Lync 2013 introduced the newest RoundTable device for Lync, briefly discussing the firmware update process. As this product was brand new at the time...
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UC Strategies: AVST Offers First Enterprise-Class Independent Voicemail...
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) has made it easier for companies to transition their PBX infrastructure to Microsoft Lync. With a new direct IP integration between Microsoft Lync...
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Lyncd Up: Lync Server 2013 PowerShell Cmdlet Updates and Additions since RTM
Lync Server Cumulative Updates often provide us with new functionality, as well as as fixes. Since everything in Lync Server management is underpinned by PowerShell, these changes are reflected in...
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Jeff Schertz: Understanding Lync Modalities
There are multiple ways to initiate communications sessions in Lync across different modalities and features. These various options can utilize a few different network paths to reach the intended...
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Exchange2010.com: My unfortunate experience with Nokia Support
22/09/14 UPDATE: Nokia agreed that my experience was pretty poor and that the damage was actually caused by UPS. Therefore after 4 weeks I recieved my phone repaired and working perfectly, including my...
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Doug Deitterick's Blog: How To Remove Legacy OCS Dial-in Simple URL from Lync...
If you've migrated to Lync Server from a previous version of OCS, you may have noticed that you might have an additional simple URL configured. You can see this in the Lync Server Control Panel under...
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Unified Me: Lync Ms-skip-rnl Tag Experience
The what tag ??? The first I heard of the ms-skip-rnl tag was a result of ‘Google’-ing or ‘Bing’-ing to find if there is a way to force Lync to not perform the Reverse Number Lookup (RNL) it...
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y0av. With a zero.: An update to Lync 2013 Active Directory Policy Tool
Based on some feedback, we updated this script (Originally posted here) to version 2.4.2. This version added some fail-safe warnings and some errors were resolved. The biggest change however is the...
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Lee Desmond: Lync SIP and SMTP Email Addresses - Same or Different (and How...
Not a must but certainly recommended as a design best practice is to match the (Lync) SIP address to that of the primary SMTP (email) address. A properly Lync enabled user via Lync Server Control Panel...
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Doug Deitterick's Blog: Issue Installing SQL Server 2012 Express Instances on...
I ran into this issue at a customer recently. The Lync Server 2013 Deployment Wizard would throw an error while trying to install SQL Server 2012 Express:Checking prerequisite...
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Mastering Lync: Reverse DNS/PTR Record for Microsoft Azure
We are going to take a step out of the Lync Department for a post (and add a new category on the blog) and chat about DNS/Reverse DNS/PTR records in Microsoft Azure. Scenario Windows Virtual Machine...
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y0av. With a zero.: List Lync Users – automated Excel file
This script isn’t big news, but it’s very handy and easy to use. It allows you to remotely connect to one of your pools and create an Excel sheet, populated with the following: Display Name SIP Address...
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