Understanding Office 365 Licensing for Meeting Devices
Jeff SchertzThe 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…
Polycom Phones with Skype for Business Online
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…
Lync Phone Edition and Public Certificates
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…
Updating Lync 2013
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…
Resetting Polycom Phones
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…
The Future of Lync IP Phones
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…
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…
Updating Lync Phone Edition Devices for Lync 2013
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…
How HTTP is Utilized in Lync Server
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…
Locking Lync Phones
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. …