Month: November 2016

Sonus SBC: Packet Capture

Today I had an issue where I had to capture the media and SIP information on a particular call, many people forget the toolsets on the SBC’s which can give you a wealth of stream information. Goto: Diagnostics screen Goto: Packet Capture menu Start the capture process Select your primary interface that sends / recieves

Skype for Business Client for Mac: Public Release

Microsoft have announced the new publicly available Skype for Business Mac Client claiming: Some may say the client is still in a beta, but so far it looks to be ok… For now here are my top 2 Reddit comments in the hope that the public release can change the way it’s perceived: well requiring

LRS: Crestron RL2

I had had a play with the Crestron RL 2 LRS today, and it was a nice piece of kit. I had the usual struggle of getting it to work with Lync in general, the startup guide, like most LRS are vague so you will need to know what to setup before getting on to

Latest S4B Updates: November 2016

Latest in the S4B KB updates: One that stands out and I have come over so far this year will be 3203148 – Front End server of Skype for Business Server 2015 crashes upon restart ref: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3061064

Microsoft Teams

So we have the Microsoft Teams preview hit the scene very recently and is available to download now. They also have seemed to get the app out for all the well known platforms as well! First, you need to switch it on to use, check this video out from Microsoft themselves: Bare in mind that Microsoft

Lync 2013: Polycom Firmware Testing

Strange but interesting one for today – testing out the new Polycom CX revision for roll-out on a customers site but would only apply if the scope was set to Site and not Global. I hunted through the IIS and RequestHandlerLogs to try trace when and where it was getting it’s information from, a snippet below: