Lync Sorted: Changing SIP Domains
Arguably one of the most common Lync deployment mistakes is assuming that the SIP Domain is also the AD domain. I suppose the mention of the word domain here may be the misleading culprit. Perhaps the...
View ArticleThe Lync Insider: Lessons from an Office 365 Outage
Starting Monday, Office 365 users started losing service. First Lync Online went down for several hours on the 23rd. Then Exchange Online did the same thing on the 24th. Lync Online Outage: Microsoft...
View ArticleLync Dude: Migrate Lync 2013 Standalone SQL to SQL Mirrored Store Step – By –...
Howdy, I got a request to move the SQL backend store of a Lync 2013 Enterprise Edition pool deployment, from a standalone to a dedicated Mirrored SQL Servers Store for high availability. Was an...
View ArticleLync Dude: Migrate Lync 2013 Standalone SQL Store to SQL Mirrored Store Step...
Howdy, In Part-I I wrote about what we can call “Preparation” to migrate the standalone SQL to Mirrored SQL, Next is to define new SQL Mirrored Store for the enterprise Pool, install the mirrored...
View ArticleLegendary Techy: The Complete Home Lync Lab: Part 1 Overview of Lab and...
Hello Readers, As you may know my background with Microsoft Lync has come from supporting a customers environment with no prior experience. In the early days it was very hard to play with Lync as it...
View ArticleLync-Exchange: SIP Pinger Tool
Checking connectivity to a TCP SIP Trunk is easy enough, “telnet” is the Swiss Army knife of any techie toolkit, and it should show that routing and firewall rules are configured correctly. However,...
View ArticleUC Playa: SBA users unable to IM using Lync 2013 mobility
I've found an issue where Lync 2013 SBA users could not use mobility due to the undocumented UCWA port, TCP 5088, being filtered by a firewall. The Lync 2013 mobile client would sign in but would...
View Articlelyncnumbers.net: Get-AssignedLineURI updated
I couldn’t just update the search-lineuri without going through the get-assignedlineuri.ps1 as well? I have rewritten the script in much the same way as I wrote search script (parts of the code are now...
View ArticleLasse's blog about tech@work: Get-assignedlineuri v 3.4 released
I applied some of my lessons from the search-lineuri script, and applied it to the get-assignedlineuri script. It has probably reduced the code by 30% and is now much more efficient. Get all the...
View ArticleDigital Bamboo: What is Lync Poor Call quality and What QOE numbers do I look...
Lync QOE means “Quality of Experience”. This comes up occasionally and there are many tools to troubleshoot this issue. I do have a very commonly overlooked fix you should review. 1) If your VPN is...
View ArticleJust a Lync Guy: Script Update: List the last time a User registered on a...
Just updated the “List the last time a User registered on a Lync pool and it’s client type” script to version 0.5 (5-July-2014). New functionally added to the script based on users feedback: Check if...
View ArticleJust a Lync Guy: Weekly IT Newsletter – June 30–July 4, 2014
Microsoft Exchange: · Exchange and Antivirus Exclusions – Still A Critical Conversation – 30-June-2014 – · Install security updates and protect Exchange 2013 – 2-July-2014 – · Exchange 2013: How to...
View Articley0av. With a zero.: Assign Lync Policies to Lync users based on Active...
I’ve been looking for this functionality for quite some time, and with great help from Guy Bachar, we created the following script to help assign Lync policies to Active Directory Security Groups. This...
View ArticlePort5061: A quick Powershell tip – using Get-Random
The Get-Random cmdlet is worth knowing about – as well as getting you a random integer number (you can set a range), it can also randomly choose one of a number of objects. How is this useful? Let’s...
View ArticleLync.geek.nz: Lexel Lync Online Connectivity Tester
Lexel's Lync Online (LLO) solution now has a locally hosted test tool in New Zealand to determine your networks readiness for a fully hosted Lync Enterprise Voice solution. Like Microsoft's Lync Online...
View ArticleLasse's blog about tech@work: Get-assignedlineuri v 3.4 released
I applied some of my lessons from the search-lineuri script, and applied it to the get-assignedlineuri script. It has probably reduced the code by 30% and is now much more efficient. Get all the...
View ArticleDigital Bamboo: What is Lync Poor Call quality and What QOE numbers do I look...
Lync QOE means “Quality of Experience”. This comes up occasionally and there are many tools to troubleshoot this issue. I do have a very commonly overlooked fix you should review. 1) If your VPN is...
View ArticleJust a Lync Guy: Script Update: List the last time a User registered on a...
Just updated the “List the last time a User registered on a Lync pool and its client type” script to version 0.5 (5-July-2014). New functionally added to the script based on users feedback: Check if...
View ArticleJust a Lync Guy: Weekly IT Newsletter – June 30–July 4, 2014
Microsoft Exchange: · Exchange and Antivirus Exclusions – Still A Critical Conversation – 30-June-2014 – · Install security updates and protect Exchange 2013 – 2-July-2014 – · Exchange 2013: How to...
View ArticleLegendary Techy: The Complete Home Lync Lab – Part 2 Installing Lync Standard...
Hello Readers As continuing on Part 1, we are now going to look at Installing Microsoft Lync 2013 before than moving on to Part 3 – Installing Lync 2013 Monitoring and Lync Edge Server. As always there...
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