Tag Archives: Skype4B

Using Dual Monitors in a Skype for Business / Lync Meeting

aka: How to use multiple monitors in the Skype for Business client to split video and content streams during meetings like Lync Room Systems do. So, I recently got asked by a client if it was possible to split the Video and Content in a meeting across two screens like in a Lync Room System and… Read More »

Powershell One-Liner to Search DHCP for a IP address of a MAC Address

So, I recently had a need to quickly and easily search a considerably large amount of DHCP Pools for some Polycom Trio devices. and James Cussens VVX manager returned too many results to find what I was looking for (well, until I hacked it to support Trio’s) Bascially, feed it a MAC and it will… Read More »

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 »

Polycom Group series video degrades when joining a conference via Skype4B

Update: Polycom has hinted this will be resolved in the the 6.0 firmware for these devices! Update 2: This still occours on a seperate customer of mines system on UCS 6.0, I have asked them to raise a ticket with Polycom and egarly await the outcome. So another interesting one for the ranks. I 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 »

Response Group Transfers to External Numbers Fail when being diverted by a thrid party

I’m not going to do my usual detailed write up on this one just figuring this might help someone Googleing, But I recently had to look into an issue for a customer who had another intergrator build thie Skype4B platform and all worked well. The issue was that when a call came from an external… Read More »

Audiocodes Analog calls drop on Transfer / Hold

So I recently had an issue at a customer where any Polycom 2W Wireless conference phone devices attached to an Audiocodes M1000 FXS ports would drop calls when attempting to establish a second call using the “Multi Party” button, but this issue could apply to any analog device that uses Hook-Flash to switch between virtual… Read More »

AudioCodes CloudBond In Depth Review Part 1

Update: Part two is over here For anyone that knows me, they know it’s no secret I’m a fan of “Team Blue” (Audiocodes), so with the announcement of the Audiocodes CloudBond for Office 365  I was a little giddy to get my hands on one, especially as the days of PSTN dialling in Cloud PBX… Read More »