Thought I should just let anyone hitting the blog know, that since moving to Modality Systems, I have moved my blogging to Lyncdup.com , and unsurprisingly it’s mainly around Lync and UC. I may also post the odd thing here, but mainly lyncdup.com is the place to catch me at the moment. thanks Tom
Apr
27
A second April Lync Client Update 2540951
This update fixes some issues related to Office 365 / Lync Online. No changes related to Lync on premise deployments. 2543532 Credential prompts occur when you sign in to Lync 2010 by using the Lync Online service 2543531 Lync 2010 does not authenticate after you resume the computer from hibernation Details and download here: …
Apr
16
How to enable Lync On-Premise to Federate with Office365 Lync Online
I’ve just been doing some testing between our Lync On-Premise installation and Office365 Lync Online with Thomas Lee (who is all over Office365 information) The information about implies that Lync Online, once you choose Open Federation on your web admin console, will federate with any On-Prem Lync installation that also has open federation. We found …
Apr
16
Lync on a Windows Slate / Tablet (ExoPC) Video Demo
I came across these great videos from Brent Whichel’s Office-411.com , with Mike Gannotti . Full credit goes to those guys. They do a complete demo of various Microsoft apps on the ExoPC Windows Slate Here are the Lync highlights, more videos and the full article is here Moving from playing Angry Birds to a Lync Video …
Apr
09
Top 10 Tech Podcasts
I do a decent amount of traveling for my job, while it can be a chore at times, one of the good things about it is keeping up to date and learning about new tech via podcasts. I use the great Podcaster on the iPhone. It will check and download podcasts in t he …
Apr
05
Lync 2010 CU2 April 2010 updates and list of issues resolved
Lync 2010 Client Updates Lync 2010 April 2011 CU2 KB2496325 Download the Lync.msp x86 package now. Download the Lync.msp X64 package now. Issues KB2496325 resolves Lync 2010 Attendee Hotfix KB 2500438 (Admin level install) Lync 2010 Attendee Hotfix KB 2500440 (User level install) Lync 2010 Attendant Hotfix KB 2496326 Lync 2010 Group Chat Hotfix KB …
Apr
03
How to upgrade a Snom Phone to the OCS / Lync Firmware
Here is a how to on upgrading a Snom phone from the standard Snom firmware to the OCS compatible firmware. I’m not sure what the distribution terms are on the firmware, but your Snom dealer or Microsoft Voice partner should be able to help you with getting access to the latest firmware. I won’t …
Mar
27
Lync High Contrast / Accessibility Support
Recently one of the guys on twitter (Simon Leyland) asked about Lync/OCS support for partially sighted users. Previously working for a Cisco partner this was something that came up more than once, I knew there was some support in Lync but thought it would be good to take a closer look. Microsoft produce a …
Mar
27
Spell Check/AutoCorrect in Lync, or any other Windows application using Autohotkey
A couple of people have asked me about spellcheck/autocorrect in Microsoft Lync. Out of the box there isn’t any, I guess Microsoft’s thinking is that it is not so important in a quick, less formal medium, with frequent use of shorthand that wouldn’t make sense to spell check anyway. What if you do want …
Mar
21
Review of Thomas Lee’s PowerShell Powercamp and a PowerShell tip
So I’ve just done (last weekend) Thomas Lee’s (@Doctordns) PowerShell Powercamp weekend training in London. A Really great from 0 to 100 (maybe more than 100) weekend on PowerShell, starting on the basics and moving right up to scripting and creating your own functions, .NET , WMI and beyond) Due to the nature of …