Polycom CX5100 for Lync 2013
Jeff SchertzWith the recently announced availability of the CX5100 Unified Conference Station this new device will start making an appearance in Lync environments all over the world. The goal of this…
Lync Mobility Media Paths
In a previous article discussing Lync Mobility an important behavior of the 2013 mobile clients was pointed out which was the fact that 2013 mobile clients are effectively hardcoded to…
Shared Line Appearances for VVX Phones
In a recent article discussing some of the new Lync features in Polycom UCS 5.0 software the capability of Shared Line Appearance, otherwise referred to as ‘Boss-Delegate’ or ‘Boss/Admin’ was…
Improved RMX Certificate Management
As of the 8.1 firmware release of Polycom RealPresence Collaboration Server (RMX) SSL certificates are now managed using a completely different method than used with previous versions (7.6 and older).…
Updating Polycom VVX Phones
With the recent release of UCS 5.0 for Polycom VVX Phones automatic firmware updates are now supported directly from the Lync Device Update service. This is the same functionality which…
October 2013 Lync Users Group Meeting
The fourth and final event of this year’s quarterly Lync Users Group meetings has been scheduled and announced for October. Presentations will be provided on the following two topics: Reverse…
Choosing a MatchURI in Lync
In the previous article Third-Party Video Conferencing with Lync the concepts of the Lync Server Trusted Applications and Static Routing were discussed in relation to supporting video calls with external…
Polycom UCS 5.0 for VVX Phones
Polycom has recently released the latest version of UCS firmware for the VVX line of SIP telephony devices. The 5.0.0 version includes a number of new capabilities including new features…
Lync Phone Edition Strict Domain Naming
In the January 2013 Cumulative Update for Lync Phone Edition (a.k.a. CU7) Microsoft changed a key element of the client registration process. Any Lync Phone Edition (LPE) firmware version from…
Multiple Static Routes in Lync
In Mike Stacy's well-known article covering Static Routing in Lync Server the basic concepts of utilizing the New-CsStaticRoute cmdlets were outlined to create routes to external applications or hosts that…