Updating the CX7000 Firmware
Jeff SchertzPolycom has released the first major software update for the CX7000 Unified Collaboration System for Microsoft Lync. For details on what this release brings in terms of new features and…
Lync Phone Edition CU6 Upgrade Issues
Any Tanjay family device (Polycom CX700, LG-Nortel 8450) currently running a Communicator Phone Edition (CPE) release (1.x or 3.5.x) cannot update directly to the Lync Phone Edition (LPE) CU6 (4.0.7577.4100)…
Polycom HDX Registration with Lync Server
This previous blog article covered some of the HDX registration steps but is over a year old and more recent firmware releases for the HDX has streamlined and simplified this…
Understanding Active Directory Naming Formats
This basic article is intended to provide a background in different Active Directory user name and domain name formats and how they are used by applications for basic and integrated…
Lync Edge Server Best Practices
Amazingly enough these topics still comes up daily in technical forums, planning discussions with customers, and when troubleshooting improper deployments. Although most of this material is not new and can…
Video Interoperability in Lync 2013
The covers have been removed from Lync ‘Wave 15’ and the general public is now privy to download and install a preview version of Lync Server 2013. This presents the…
Lync Video Interop Design Clinics
Over the next month or so I will be hosting a number of 3-hour design clinics throughout various Microsoft Technology Centers across the Midwest which will focus on Video conferencing…
Understanding Lync Edge Server Ports
The Lync Edge Server is an often misunderstood server role that in theory is not all that complicated. But without knowing some of the basic functionality provided it can be…
Lync Web Services Load Balancing with KEMP VLM
This article addresses a standard DNS Load Balanced scenario utilizing a Hardware Load Balancer (HLB) for web server requests only. What is unique about this setup though is that the…
New Lync Phone Edition Features
This is a brief article indented to highlight some new functionality introduced into the Lync Phone Edition client for all Aries devices with the recent firmware release in March 2012. …