I have two standard edition pools, SE1.fabrikam.com (SE1) and SE2.fabrikam.com (SE2). My CMS is located in SE1. These pools are backup registrar to each other. I have manually shutdown SE1 to create a DR scenario. I wanted to invoke a pool failover from SE1 to SE2. Following steps may be helpful for reference. Run the […]
This article outlines the unplanned failover and fail back for Skype for business. However the DR setup must be provisioned in order for the DR activation to happen. The deployment must have the below setup : 1)Skype for Business HQ Front end, HQ SQL ,HQ OOS will be part of the HQ active directory site. […]
Following the release of the first cumulative update for Skype for Business 2019 the Skype for Business Control Panel is getting refreshed to get ride of Silverlight. Well, sort of as at this stage the capabilities available in this new Control Panel are quite limited to Users management; the other capabilities are not yet included and will come […]
Abstract: If you do some bigger maintenance on a Skype for business pool, you would like to move the users from that pool to another and after that you wish to move them back. But you do not wish to remember and type in all the names by hand. So you wish to perform that via […]
User photos stored in Active Directory can be used by applications like Outlook, Skype for Business (Lync) or SharePoint to display the picture of currently logged-in user in their interface. However, you can take even more advantage of Active Directory photos and use them as account pictures in Windows 10 (and other versions of Windows […]
Fellow MVP Jeff Guillet wrote an article about the fact that disabling a user’s Active Directory account doesn’t mean they can’t log into Lync/Skype for Business. This is due to the way Lync uses certificates and authentication based on them. I highly recommend you read the article. I recently was writing some documentation for a customer and wanted to […]
When I see administrators manually enabling all of their Lync / Skype for Business users it makes me cringe. With just a few lines of PowerShell and a scheduled task you can have users enabled for Lync / Skype for Business automatically. Simply copy the script examples and modify them with your infrastructure details and […]
Lync 2013 introduced a new feature called Pool Pairing. Given the scenario below with 2 sites using Lync Standard Edition with paired pools, in the event that Front End 01 was to fail, or Site 1 failed completely all users will automatically register to Front End 02. However they will receive an error in their […]