Richard Schwendiman: Lync 2013 Delegates Pt.1 (Non Lync Enterprise Voice...
Lately I have seen some confusion around delegates between Exchange and Lync that I wanted to help clear up. The unknown variable seems to be whether the user needs to be enabled for Enterprise Voice...
View ArticleMastering Lync: Quick Tip: Downgrading from Lync Licensed/Full to Eval Version
Yes, you read that correctly, we are going to downgrade from a fully licensed to an eval copy of Lync Server. A few things: First, this ISN’T SUPPORTED by Microsoft. So doing this to production would...
View ArticleLee Desmond: Which Version of Lync Client Do I Really have?
Simply execute the following to show all components related to the Lync 2013 and/or 2010 client application. You can use the same approach against the Lync Server 2013/2010 backend infrastructure.
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 ArticleReal-Time UC: Get-snomScreen PowerShell GUI
While rolling out snom IP phones for a recent Lync Enterprise voice deployment, I found it handy to monitor a specific phone’s screen while working remotely. I wrote a small PowerShell GUI script that...
View ArticleThe UC Architects: Episode 40: Too Bad For Belgium
The latest episode of your favorite Lync, Exchange, and Office 365 podcast is now online. Here is a summary of what’s discussed, and links to articles mentioned in the episode. Summary Title Episode...
View ArticleLCSKid: Summary of Lync Voice with Jabra device portfolio
Our team was put in contact with Jabra and offered an opportunity to test the form factors they provide customers for proof of concepts when deploying...
View ArticleJust a Lync Guy: Script: List Lync Orphaned users
Recently Yoav Barzilay and I upgraded our script for Getting the Last Login time for a user sign in into a Lync pool and it’s client type. we’ve added a new functionality to include the actual server...
View Articley0av. With a zero.: Script: List Lync Orphaned users
Originally posted on Just a Lync Guy:Recently Yoav Barzilay and I upgraded our script for Getting the Last Login time for a user sign in into a Lync pool and it’s client type. we’ve added a new...
View ArticleLync.Lead: Mystery Of The 12 and 00 Number Prefix
This is a quick FYI if you’re troubleshooting an odd number manipulation issue on a AudioCodes Mediant 1000 device. I had a situation where “12” was automatically being prefixed to incoming numbers...
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-Exchange: Rogue Registrar Configuration Entries
I wanted to quickly share something I noticed recently. While finishing a multi-site Lync deployment, I ran Get-CsRegistrarConfiguration and saw only 2 out of the 4 pools that were actually in the...
View ArticleMatt Landis: Sonus SBC1000/2000 Release 3.2 Gives You PRI, FXS or FXO Ports...
With Sonus SBC1000/2000 release 3.2 comes:Integration with the Sonus Element Management System (EMS), the normal handful of firmware fixes/tweaks perhaps most importantly Sonus now gives you PRI, FXS...
View ArticleUC Strategies: The Via Group on CityNext, Lync, and Sonus
Microsoft CityNext brings next-gen communications to cities to enable various sectors, such as fire, police, administration services, libraries, schools, etc., to improve and streamline communications...
View ArticleLegendary Techy: The Complete Home Lync Lab: Part 3 – Installing Lync 2013...
Hello Readers As continuing on Part 2, we are now going to look at Installing Lync 2013 Monitoring and Lync Edge Server before than moving on to Part 4 – Installing KEMP VLM for Reserve Proxy. As...
View ArticleLee Desmond: Change Lync On-line Meeting Invitation to Other Languages
You run the US English version of Windows 7/8 desktop operating system. Office 2010/2013 is installed based on the same language alongside with Lync 2010/2013. By default, Lync online meetings...
View ArticleLegendary Techy: The Complete Home Lync Lab: Part 4 – Installing KEMP VLM for...
Hello Readers As continuing on Part 3, we are now going to look at Installing KEMP VLM for Reserve Proxy before than moving on to Part 5 – Install System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2. As always...
View ArticleLegendary Techy: The Complete Home Lync Lab: Part 5 Installing System Center...
Hello Readers As continuing on Part 4, we are now going to look at Installing System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 before than moving on to Proactive Monitoring of your Lync Environment. As always...
View ArticleLegendary Techy: The Complete Home Lync Lab: Part 6 Proactive Monitoring of...
Hello Readers As continuing on Part 5, we are now going to look at Proactive Monitoring of your Lync Environment using System Center 2012 R2. As always there are a couple of pre-requisites we need to...
View ArticleJust a Lync Guy: Integrating Lync 2013 Monitoring Data and Excel using Power...
In 2012, Ilse Van Criekinge published a great article on Extending your Lync monitoring data using PowerPivot and Power View. This article included a built-in Excel file that integrated into the Lync...
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