WebSearchOnly is an option that was introduced in Lync 2010 and is still available in Lync 2013. Although it is a great option, I’ve noticed it is not often used in Lync deployments. But why would you? To know the advantages of this option, first let’s look at what it does. What does WebSearchOnly do? WebSearchOnly is a value for […]
I would like to share the backup and restore procedure for a Lync 2013 standard edition server. Current lab setup have two standard edition servers called SE1.fabrikam.com and SE2 fabrikam.com. CMS is located in SE2 , unfortunately SE2 went down due to some reason. I would like to recover the server from scratch. I had […]
If you’re using the next version of Office (That’s Office 2016, Preview available for download here), you’re already using the new Skype for Business client. If you used Lync before and now you find that your address book is not up to date and you get the “Address book synchronizing. Results may not be current” message, […]
I came across a post on the TechNet forums recently where someone was asking a lot of questions about how photos are implemented and managed in Lync. Given that there aren’t many examples around of the behaviour, I thought it was worthwhile writing this up and including some screenshots. How are photos controlled? All control […]
Compliance in the enterprise is a funny thing. Some companies take the approach that they have to save everything forever. Some take the opposite approach that they only keep limited backups, control what the user can save, and purge everything else. This post will describe how to control and prohibit users from saving IM’s to […]
Migrating the DHCP service from the old server to the new Windows Server 2016/2019 with the saving of all the settings of the old server is quite easy. If the old DHCP server is running Windows Server 2008/R2 or Windows Server 2012/R2, you can directly transfer DHCP settings, zones, and reservations. Deploying DHCP Server Role […]
If you’ve installed the 180-day Evaluation Edition of Windows Server 2016 or 2012, you’re likely to have experienced the server getting shutdown automatically every hour without any notification. This can just be a rebuff or a serious destruction of your unsaved work. For me it was serious as the server had abruptly shutdown while I […]
As we all know by now AlwaysOn Availability Groups are an enterprise edition feature and SQL Server Clustering is a standard edition feature. Butt what happens when you have a small business that is running its apps on SQL Server Express. Can’t SQL Express have any sort of high availability? Officially the answer is no, […]