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)…
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. …
Understanding DHCP Option 43
Although not the first on this topic this article does contain a more comprehensive and detailed explanation of exactly how Option 43 is formatted and utilized, and is designed to…
Troubleshooting Lync Phone Edition Issues
This article serves as a follow-up to a few previous articles which will further explain some of the requirements, capabilities, and limitations of the Lync Phone Edition firmware which appear…
Updating the CX5000 and RoundTable Firmware
Although there are already a few existing articles which cover the firmware update process for the Microsoft Roundtable or Polycom CX5000 Unified Conference Stations most do not clearly explain the…
Location Information on Lync Phone Edition
There are a number of articles out there already in the topic of configuring Location Information Services in Lync Server for everything from displaying location information on endpoints to deploying…
Lync Quality of Service Behavior
In Lync Server, by default, Quality of Service (QoS) is not enabled for the Windows Lync soft client, yet it is enabled for Lync Phone Edition clients. Thus it is…
Common Area Phone Configuration in Lync
With the introduction of the new Lync Phone Edition client in Lync Server 2010 there is now a way to support basic telephony functionality without having to login as a…
Lync Phone Edition Incompatible with Wildcard Certificates
As discussed in this previous article I am not a big fan of wildcard certificates. Here is another reason why. Lync Phone Edition devices do not support the use of…