At work & home we have quite a few snom 7xx Lync phones deployed. I’m quite a fan of the snom devices & their Lync implementation particularly around things like directory search etc… With the newer snom UC Firmware it is also possible to manage all updating...
Lync 2013
WAC update for PowerPoint in Lync 2013 with Windows 8.1
I’ve been having some fun recently with WAC on some customer deployments with TMG being unable to publish WAC correctly & causing problems when doing PowerPoint sharing. Most of these issues I worked around by deploying IIS ARR in place of TMG but it didn’t help...
Lync Windows 8 App – November 2013 update
It looks like the Windows 8 “Modern / Metro” style Lync app was just updated today. The official change log looks like it brings some some pretty major additions: Install the new app on Windows 8.1 to take advantage of new Windows features. Take control of shared...
Lync 2013 CU2 – Meeting Q&A added
CU 2 Update This morning CU2 for Lync 2013 (or "Lync 2013 July 2013 Update" is probably the official title) was released. There is no official word of any major new features beyond the usual "stability fixes". You can see the full KB article here, the interesting sub...
Group Pickup with Lync 2013 CU1
At the recently completed Lync Conference 2013 Microsoft announced two new features coming for telephony in the February 2013 update, group pickup and location based routing. Having recently upgraded my lab after MS released the update I thought it would be handy to...
Lync 2013 pre-requisite install
This weekend I setup my lab to have a little play with Lync 15 Beta. I had hoped that the Lync installer had been updated since 2010 and would add the required windows features as it went along but apparently not. Having setup and installed the required features and...
