Category Archives: Client

Blynclight Plus Review

Another one of my reviews that I’ve had in my OneNote for ages (12mths plus) and I’ve been meaning to get to. Grieg Sheridan has a great review over here.. With included Simpsons lego for scale. Go read that instead 😀 Embrava has now released a wireless model that offers 8 hours of runtime when… Read More »

Response Group calls to Skype4B client work, Polycom VVX Phones Fail with CAC enabled

Figured I’d post this one quickly and hopefully it will help someone else, I don’t have time to replicate the issue in my lab so don’t have any screenshots more detailed info I’m afraid I recently had an interesting one where a customer had deployed Skype4B I with another integrator in a hurry and had… Read More »

Long Term Review: Plantronics Focus UC

I know your all waiting for the Cloudbond followup, but I’m back with another Plantronics headset review. I meant to quickly review this before IgniteAU last year but everything’s been a little busy since then, So I’d figured I’d post this as a more long term review than just a first impressions. As always, Full disclosure.… Read More »

Fixing the Win + Y shortcut for Skype For Business 2016

Like many of you I’ve been a big fan of the OCS / Lync / Skype4B stack for many years. And as an avid user of Lync/Skype4B 2013 I would use the “Windows + Y” global shortcut several times a day. The Shortcut For those of you who don’t know, on Lync 2013 pressing the… Read More »

Delegates continually re-appearing in Skype for Business / Lync

So I recently had an issue I was called out to address at a customer’s environment where the delegate sync notification “You were added as a delegate for Joe Blogs” would appear over and over for a multitude of users The first this was to check was that it was being correctly logged in the users… Read More »

Citrix strips logging information from UCCAPI log

I recently had an issue with a client deployment where when attempting to sign in from a particular box. The Lync 2013 client would take my user details and spit out a very generic error message (as is usually the case in Lync) So I fired up snooper to begin troubleshooting the issue and found… Read More »

The Battle of the Lync Speaker Phones

Update: Paul Bloem from UCSorted has reviewed the newer, bigger Jabra 810 Check it out here https://ucsorted.com/2016/01/23/product-review-jabra-speak-810/ I’ve always taken Handsfree Phone calls for granted, one of my earliest jobs was fitting Mobile Phone handsfree kits into cars. Back then Bluetooth was a weird and mysterious technology that few people understood and fewer people knew how… Read More »

Windows 10 Preview Breaks Win+Y Shortcut

Update: This has been resolved in Windows 10 Build 10162 For anyone that is a heavy user of Lync/ Skype For Business, especially for voice calls. The “Win+Y” shortcut is one of the best keyboard shortcuts you can know. For those that aren’t aware, pressing “Win+Y” from anywhere in Windows whilst Lync / Skype4B is… Read More »