Understanding Office 365 Licensing for Meeting Devices
August 21, 2017 by Jeff Schertz · 21 Comments
The purpose of this article is to explain what type of Office 365 licenses can or should be used with any of the various phones and meeting devices qualified by Microsoft for Skype for Business Online. These products can natively register to Skype for Business Online using resource accounts which must be assigned the correct […]
Polycom Phones with Skype for Business Online
February 29, 2016 by Jeff Schertz · 141 Comments
As of the end of January 2016 many currently available Polycom IP handsets and conference phones are now supported with Skype for Business Online with Office 365. This functionality was first added to the VVX IP handset models back in September 2015 as covered in this previous article. Direct registration support was just added to […]
Lync Phone Edition and Public Certificates
October 28, 2014 by Jeff Schertz · 15 Comments
This article aims to serve two purposes. Firstly, as a reminder to always keep Lync Phone Edition (LPE) devices updated and not to grow lackadaisical regarding the routine administrative tasks of frequently downloading these periodic cumulative updates and applying them to the Lync servers. Secondly, if the previous advice was not taken to heart then […]
Updating Lync 2013
August 20, 2014 by Jeff Schertz · 38 Comments
Upon looking at visitor statistics for this blog one of the reoccurring trends is the amount of traffic to articles like Updating Lync Phone Edition Devices after Microsoft releases a new round of Lync updates. It can sometimes be difficult to successfully navigate through the various updates which follow different release schedules which are sometimes […]
Resetting Polycom Phones
June 6, 2014 by Jeff Schertz · 37 Comments
Resetting configuration data or rolling back the firmware on Lync IP phones is one of the most basic troubleshooting procedures, but at the core is also often misunderstood. This article will cover the reset procedures as well as explain what is actually happening on the devices. Although most of the instructions in this article have […]
The Future of Lync IP Phones
April 25, 2014 by Jeff Schertz · 12 Comments
A topic originally meant for the recent Lync Conference summary article, it seemed more appropriate to break this out into a separate post. This subject comes up now in almost every discussion related to Lync Enterprise Voice deployment needs for physical desk phones and conference phones. Recently the most common question, especially evident at the […]
Lync Phone Edition Strict Domain Naming
August 29, 2013 by Jeff Schertz · 45 Comments
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 4.0.7577.4363 and newer is affected by the behavior described in this article. Adherence to Strict DNS Naming was introduced into the Lync server discovery process […]
Updating Lync Phone Edition Devices for Lync 2013
May 31, 2013 by Jeff Schertz · 41 Comments
This article is a brief update to the process previously documented for Lync Server 2010. In Lync Server 2013 the Device Update service is unchanged and the steps shown in that article are still applicable, so why the need for a new post on this subject? Background It is important to understand that although Lync […]
How HTTP is Utilized in Lync Server
December 30, 2012 by Jeff Schertz · 17 Comments
Nearly all communications between Lync clients and the Lync Server web services are maintained over port 443, yet there are a few instances when HTTP traffic over Port 80 is utilized. Thus depending on the scenario if any traffic over this port is not allowed to or from the server then some functionality may be […]
Locking Lync Phones
September 19, 2012 by Jeff Schertz · 42 Comments
There are two different types of telephone handsets optimized for Lync which support the ability to be tethered via USB to a Windows PC for a ‘better together’ user experience. In the event that the connected Windows PC is locked manually by a user or automatically by the screen saver then the devices can also […]
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