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Media Port Range Behavior on Polycom Devices

Jeff Schertz Nov 8, 2017 5 Comments

An older, now partially outdated article covered in depth how to configure Quality of Service (QoS) on Polycom VVX phones for use with Lync Server.  Much of the guidance in…

Skype

Skype for Business VBSS Update

Jeff Schertz Jun 30, 2016 44 Comments

Since the introduction of VBSS in the article Video Based Screen Sharing (VBSS) for Skype for Business last year Microsoft has released several changes to the platform to further leverage…

Skype

Video Based Screen Sharing in Skype for Business

Jeff Schertz Oct 2, 2015 54 Comments

Video Based Screen Sharing (VBSS) is a new Skype for Business client capability that has for the most part flown in under the radar.  There is currently very little information…

Lync Skype

Video Interoperability in Skype for Business

Jeff Schertz Jan 26, 2015 62 Comments

With the recently launched Office 365 Summit events Microsoft has started sharing technical details on the various new capabilities which are on the horizon with the future release of Skype…

Lync Skype

SILK Audio in Lync Mobile Clients

Jeff Schertz Nov 7, 2014 4 Comments

A previous article entitled Media Codes in Lync 2013 covered the introduction of the SILK narrowband and wideband audio codecs from Skype into the Lync 2013 desktop client.  Since posting…

Lync

Configuring QoS for Lync IP Phones

Jeff Schertz Oct 6, 2014 31 Comments

This article covers various aspects of configuring a complete Quality of Service (QoS) design in a Lync environment which utilizes various models of IP handsets for Lync.  Prioritization of both…

Lync

Understanding Lync Modalities

Jeff Schertz Aug 31, 2014 41 Comments

There are multiple ways to initiate communications sessions in Lync across different modalities and features.  These various options can utilize a few different network paths to reach the intended destination(s). …

Lync

Video Temporal Scaling Behavior in Lync 2013

Jeff Schertz May 27, 2014 4 Comments

This article is a continuation on a series of articles dedicated to the H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) video codec implementation utilized by Lync 2013.  Previous article introduced the standards-based…

Lync

Planning for Video in Lync

Jeff Schertz May 9, 2014 11 Comments

Microsoft has recently posted all recorded sessions from the 2014 Lync Conference to the Channel 9 events page on MSDN.  Among these are a pair of sessions I presented this…

Skype

Media Codecs in Lync 2013

Jeff Schertz Mar 31, 2014 26 Comments

The original intent of this article was to review the current list of supported audio and video codecs in Lync 2013 and attempt to explain what each one is used…

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