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I needed a method to recharge departments call costs from Microsoft Lync and came across the following article by Frederik Lefevre: http://www.ucprofessional.com/2012/01/lync-cdr-report.html I found this was exactly what I required but unfortunately the SQL views were not compatible with Lync Continue reading Lync 2013 CDR Report – Recharge Call Costs
This script will backup Lync 2013 core data and settings off all servers in the topology as per Technet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202170.aspx The script does the following: Backup the Central Management Store Backup the Location Information Service Data Backup the user Continue reading Lync 2013 – Automated Backup Script
I recently deployed an SBA at a branch office and configured an RGS for the Reception. If the receptionist does not answer within a certain time period then the call is forwarded to an external party. When calling the reception Continue reading Lync – Response Group Voice Policy
When designing your Lync 2013 topology it is easy to overcomplicate the topology with Enterprise Pools in each datacenter. Spanning pools is not supported across metropolitan datacenters in Lync 2013 which means as a minimum recommendation you would require 3 Front End Continue reading Lync 2013 High Availability
After deploying a Lync 2013 pool alongside an existing Lync 2010 deployment, users were unable to join conferences created by users registered on the 2013 pool. They would get the error “Conference Error”. This affected users who were moved from Continue reading Lync 2013 – Conference Error
I recently started building a Lync 2013 Pilot Pool alongside my Lync 2010 deployment. When publishing the topology I got the following errors: Publishing in progress Failed adding “AccessWrite” permissions for “RTCComponentUniversalServices” Failed adding “AccessRead” permissions for “RTCComponentUniversalServices” Failed adding Continue reading Lync 2013 – Enabling Topology Completed With Errors
In this post I will cover how to deploy the Lync 2010 client with a CU (Cumulative Update) and MUI (Multilingual User Interface) pack. I used this method to deploy Lync 2010 with Microsoft SCCM. Create a package source folder Continue reading Script install of Lync 2010 client with a CU and MUI pack
In this post I will cover how to hide Response Groups from the Lync Address Book. You can hide users by setting the msExchHideFromAddressLists value to TRUE either by using the Exchange Management Console or Exchange Management Shell (If you Continue reading Hiding Response Groups From Address Book – Lync Server 2010
It is important to backup your Lync environment so that you can restore service in the event of a disaster. The following Microsoft TechNet articles explain how to backup Lync Server 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202170 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202171 In this article I would just Continue reading How to Backup Lync Server 2010
This neat little tool will scan your Outlook contacts and suggested contacts and tell you who you may be able to federate with! Download the tool from here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Who-Can-Federate-Tool-a9e00d23 Chris HaywardTechnical Architect at Symity twitter.com/WeakestLync