Finally the moment has arrived! Manage to get my hands on a SMART Lync Room System (SRS-Lync-S) to hook up with my office Lync 2013 infrastructure.
I’ll be skipping the “heavy metal” work on assembling and wall mounting the system as this took us almost half a day just to setup the Mounting Stand and positioning the Interactive Flat Panel (that weights almost 100KGs!).
The crucial part is connecting the console and Interactive Flat Panel where the instructions can be easily found within the boxes that came with the equipment. While I’m trying to locate the exact copy that I’d, this is link that has the closest match how should the connectivity for the LRS.
With the display, audio, USB and Power connectivity in-placed, the system which runs on Windows 7 Embedded will walk us through the initial setup that would be required to Calibrate the Flat Panel and Detect the peripherals that are connected to it. The full setup guide can be found here
Here’s some walkthrough (aka HOW-TOs) during the overall setup that may not be too “visible” from the available document:
1. When the wizard initiates the Audio Source, select the Table Speaker instead of the Web Cam. The speaker will not immediately shown that is activate in Green so don’t panic and complete the wizard
2. During the display adjustment, you need to adjust the following resolution: Interactive Panel – 1920 x 1080, Console – 1366 x 768. 
3. Upon confirming the changes, you’ll receive an error message: ERROR: The right-most monitor isn’t the primary monitor if you did not move the Console to the Right side
4. To fix this, you’ll need to drag the Console screen to the left of the Interactive Flat Panel
5. However, this is not the end – upon confirming the changes, you might get this message indicating that the top of the console is not align with the Flat Panel ERROR: The top of the monitor \\.\DISPLAY2 is not aligned.
6. To solve this, just move the console screen and align it with the Interactive Flat Panel:
7. After this the Wizard will start to configure the System with a couple of reboots and you’ll be brought into the Lync Room System Setup Wizard, which you’ll need a Lync account to be provisioned at the Lync Server 2013
8. Download & follow the Lync Room System Deployment Guide to setup the Exchange & Lync account for the System
9. Go back to the LRS Console
10. If you’re using an internal Microsoft Certificate Authority Server (Microsoft CA), manually add the Root Certificate into the Trusted Root Certificate Store
11. Add the trusted domain into the registry – Adding a Trusted Domain
12. Activate the System License - Activating On Premise LRS. I’m currently stuck here as I’ve tried a couple of license keys but couldn’t get it activated. However, the LRS still works as per normal but you’ll gen an annoying pop-out stating that the Lync Activation has failed <To be Updated>
13. Key in the necessary credentials which was created at Step #8.
14. DO NOT SAVE and Restart the System. Run at least a Test Call and the Test Online Meeting, if everything works well, Save and Restart the system
Filed under: Lync Server, Office 365
