At times we might run into a situation where we would need to remove all the server roles , remove the features and front end roles in our lync environment like a disaster recovery scenario, a lync server upgrade. In this article we will have a look at the steps to decommission the lync servers […]
I have been setting up a Standard Edition pool pair for disaster recovery for a customer and wanted to share my experiences around failover. The deployment and migration of services, users and data from the legacy Lync installation went absolutely fine and without issues. I successfully paired the two Skype for Business Standard Edition servers […]
Problem You’ve recently failed over the CMS and pool from a primary Skype for Business Server 2015 to a backup server then failed the services back to the primary server but started noticing the following errors logged on the primary active server with the contents referencing the backup server: Log Name: Lync Server Source: LS […]
Anchoring my findings here for future readers. Import certificate to Trusted Root Certification Authorities on Local Machine: CERTUTIL -addstore -enterprise -f -v root "somCertificat.cer" Import pfx to Personal on local machine CERTUTIL -f -p somePassword -importpfx "somePfx.pfx" Import pfx to Trusted People on local machine – Link to importpfx.exe importpfx.exe -f "somePfx.pfx" -p "somePassword" -t […]
Problem It’s time to start planning! Microsoft will stop their browsers displaying the ‘lock’ icon for services that are secured with a certificate that uses SHA1. This is going to happen in February 2017 so now’s the time to start thinking about testing your PKI environment, and making sure all your applications support SHA2. Note: […]
Integration Scenarios XMPP service runs on Skype For Business (SFB) Front End and Edge Server. You can use this component to federate with internal or external Jabber setup. You can also share same name space between the platforms. Thus, enabling instant messaging (chat) and presence between Jabber and SFB users. A reference diagram to connect […]
In this article I will show you how PowerShell can automatically send an e-mail notification to end users when their Active Directory password is set to expire soon. I looked over several other similar scripts on TechNet but ended up writing one from scratch to incorporate several features I needed, as well as improve on […]
Hi Folks, sometimes you forget to delete the Exchange 2010 CAS Array Object with “Remove-ClientAccessArray” within the Exchange 2010 Shell while migrating to Exchange 2013. After Deinstallation of Exchange 2010 the “Remove-ClientAccessArray” isn’t available in the Exchange 2013 Shell. To remove the CAS Array Object open ADSI-Edit and go to configuration Navigate to this path: […]