Introduction Monitoring server reports provides strategic insight to your Skype For Business deployment. You can collect following information with the help of monitoring reports; Skype for Business Server has 2 new reports: Conference Join Time & Media Quality Comparison. Overall, there are two components involved in Monitoring deployment; Monitoring Agent and Monitoring Database. By default, Monitoring Agent is installed […]
Skype for Business server fabric traces are enabled by default. You can find the fabric traces in following location: C:\ProgramData\Windows Fabric\Log\Traces. Sometimes Windows Fabric logs can be very abundant and in conjunction with not a big size of disk partition can fill up your system drive space. Following article may help you to reduce the fabric traces logs to one day. […]
Tracy A. Cerise and Mahmoud Badran came up with a script to show Lync connections, and the users connected. This was quite informative as it could be used to show load balance distribution, client versions being used, and more. I took the script and updated it a little, including: Removed the help function and the […]
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 […]