Overview User Profile Disks (UPD) were introduced in Windows Server 2012 and intended to replace the standard method of managing user data with roaming profiles. Unlike roaming profiles, a UPD is not an actual directory containing user profile data. “User profile disks store user and application data on a single virtual disk that is dedicated […]
Azure is great, but Azure On-Premises would be your dream come true? Well, today we will cover just that – installation of Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) I will cover ASDK installation with Azure AD support. Azure Free Account First thing to start with – you will need Free Azure account, you can create it […]
The Central Management Store (CMS) stores a copy of the entire Lync topology for your deployment. Every server has a copy of the CMS, but there can be only one master. Each Lync server downloads a copy of the CMS from this master at regular intervals. By default, the first Lync server you deploy is […]
Depending on how you utilise Skype for Business, you may have no requirement to maintain a hybrid environment once all users are within Skype for Business online. Documentation around decommissioning the on premise environment was surprisingly sparse. One of the better documents around web was here – but it still stopped a little short, in my opinion. […]
When i was trying to publish my SfB toplogy the other day I kept getting this error: Unable to check the security for the Deleted Objects container. Only users who are listed as owners on the Deleted Objects security descriptor are able to check the security on this container. I had just removed SfB Server […]
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 […]