Finally it’s there! the new office, Microsoft Office 2013, is now ready for download. We’re talking about the Customer Preview. While Office 2013 is still in development, customers can already “taste” a bit of Office in the new way. The new version of Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Lync 2013, is also part of this
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Read moreOn some occasions, when you try to install a Lync Server on Windows Server 2008 R2, you’ll receive an error message stating that one of the prerequisites failed to install: Wmf2008R2. It was already known that sometimes this installer needs a reboot; now it is failing completely. The installer fails with exit code “3”; The
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Read moreMicrosoft introduced a new feature recently, a very nice one if you ask me. As tabbed browsing was already introduced with Internet Explorer for a long time, now it has been added as a feature into the Lync 2010 client; tabbed conversations. It looks good: This feature can be used by installing a separate application
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Read moreOne other cosmetical complaint I sometimes hear from my customers, is the new task bar view behaviour of the Lync Client in Windows 7. Like other programs, new conversation windows will be “stacked” behind the Lync-logo in the task bar. Also, when you close the conversations, Lync will remain active in the task bar.
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Read moreWhile the first round of updates is already available for some weeks now (mentioned in KB 2493736), I’ve tried to install them with one of my clients. However, installing the update for the Web Components, “WebComponents.msp”, failed. I’ve tried several times, but still it failed and rolled back its configuration changes. Then it shows an
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