Erez Benari's Blog
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Announcing the release of the Lync Pre-call Diagnostic Tool for Windows 8
The Lync PreCall Diagnostic Tool (PCD) is a client-based application that allows you to see how the current state of your network might impact the audio quality in an upcoming Enterprise Voice call. The PCD tool was originally released for Office Communications...(read more)
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End of support for Java SE 6
If you’re running Java SE 6, we have some news for you: Oracle stopped providing public updates to it after February 2013.
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Script to delete SIP profile for multiple Lync 2013 users
Author: Edwin Joseph Publication date: September 24, 2013 Product version: Lync Server 2013 Introduction When a Lync 2013 desktop client for Windows signs-in, to minimize the bandwidth consumption the Lync client retrieves a lot of information...(read more)
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Lync 2013 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Client scenarios
Abstract: The Lync team is excited about the new Lync 2013 VDI landing page on our Lync Interop Programs, so we put together a set of scenarios to help identify Lync VDI scenario between Microsoft Lync and our partner software. Author: Kaushal Mehta...(read more)
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Deployment Details for the Lync VDI Plug-in
Abstract: It can be difficult to work with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 VDI-Plug-in. In this post we describe how to avoid some possible issues in a Virtual Desktop scenario with the deployment of the Lync VDI-Plugin. Author: Christian Schacht Publication...(read more)
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Announcing the Lync Server 2013 Demo VM Set - Public Test Drive Version
The Lync Server 2013 demo VM set is now available on the Microsoft Download Center. This VM set is pre-loaded with more than 200 contacts with photos, and is integrated with Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging (UM), SharePoint Server 2013, and a Unified...(read more)
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Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2887505
Today we released Security Advisory 2887505 regarding an issue that affects Internet Explorer. There are only reports of a limited number of targeted attacks specifically directed at Internet Explorer 8 and 9, although the issue could potentially affect all supported versions. This issue could allow remote code execution if an affected system browses to a website containing malicious content directed towards the specific browser type. This would typically occur when an attacker compromises the security of trusted websites regularly frequented, or convinces someone to click on a link in an email or instant message. Running modern versions of Internet Explorer ensures that customers receive the benefit of additional security features that can help prevent successful attacks.
While we are actively working to develop a security update to address this issue, we encourage Internet Explorer customers concerned with the risk associated with this vulnerability, to deploy the following workarounds and mitigations from the advisory: -
GigaOM Structure Europe Conference Kicks Off
By Adrienne Hall, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing
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New features in ARR (Application Request Routing) 3.0
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Happy Days are Here Again: Announcing the Release of the Lync Server 2013 Protocol Workloads Poster
Author: Greg Stemp Technical Review: Joe Davies Published: Sep. 16, 2013 Remember your last birthday, the one where you got the Rolex and the keys to the brand-new Lexus? Remember how you put on a brave face, smiled as best you could, and...(read more)