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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
Using the Get-CsUser cmdlet you can get information about Lync users in your organization. The below powershell command exports Lync users, sip address, Enterprise Voice Enabled and Line URI to a CSV file. Get-Csuser | Select-Object DisplayName, SipAddress, EnterpriseVoiceEnabled, LineUri | Continue reading Lync Tip: List Lync users with LineURI’s to CSV
Whilst signed into Microsoft Lync, you may notice an error at the bottom of the client “Cannot synchronize address book”. You are also unable to find new Lync users. To resolve this issue, you can force address book updates on Continue reading Lync 2010 – Error “Cannot synchronize address book”
After moving Lync Server 2010 backend databases to a different location on your SQL servers drives you may encounter an error where the Lync client shows an error “Limited functionality is available due to outage”. This occurs because after dettaching Continue reading Lync 2010 Database move – Limited functionality is available due to outage