ync 2013 Topology with High Availability (POOLs, DNS LB vs HLB) © 2014 – Thomas Pött, MVP Lync (modified 2015.08.18) Download PDF: here The most misunderstood topic in Lync is the high availability. This is regardless of server count, positioning or DNS versus hardware load balancing. Note: This document is neither a sizing […]
Today I want to share how we implement the Lync Address book segregation function in Lync 2010. In our organization where we need to separate several Organizations from seeing each other in the Lync Address book we had to find a solution. We used several PowerShell commands to achieve this function. Our users are all […]
The Lync 2013 LHPv2 official documentation goes into some detail about setting users for Tenant creation – however it does not state what to do for Distribution Groups – further it doesn’t state how to make Mail enabled Distribution Groups work within the Lync client if a tenant already has Exchange, and enables Lync as […]
Lync server includes the Location Information service (LIS), which provides location information to clients such as Lync desktop and Microsoft Lync Phone Edition. Location information is stored in a dedicated database LIS in the central management store. The cool thing about this, is that you can map your physical subnets for example, with an actual location. When […]
Well, this was a bit of a nightmare to debug. I started the whole project with some googling on how to (automatically) remove AD-disabled users from Lync (SfB) Server. This procedure is by no means automatic, and If you disable a user in AD they can still use Lync (at least for some time). Have […]
Scenario: Integrate Exchange 2013 OWA and LYNC together. The steps are from the Exchange perspective Steps: 1. Configure Partner Applications with Exchange and Lync: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts\Configure-EnterprisePartnerApplication.ps1 -AuthMetaDataUrl ‘https://atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com/metadata/json/1’ -ApplicationType Lync” 2. Configure OWA Virtual Directories to enable Instant Messaging and to assign OCS as the Instant Messaging Type. Note: InstantMesaging should be enabled but […]
In SfB on premises you have the ability to set “EnablePresencePhotoOptions” to true under New-CsClientPolicyEntry. This then allows you enable users with the ability to specify a URL for a profile picture in the SfB client. In SfB online, you’re unable to run New-CsClientPolicyEntry, and/or can’t enable EnablePresencePhotoOptions. A a result you cannot specify a […]
The checks described in this article are the result of what we normally check during troubleshooting. Some of these already have specific error events, but the objective here is to try to avoid that these events occur. We plan to keep the post updated and add more checks that we identify as useful. Also, we […]