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Lync Users Group giving away a trip to the Microsoft Ignite Conference

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Kevin Peters

Hello Everyone, If you haven’t seen it yet, the Lync Users Group is giving away a trip to the Microsoft Ignite Conference. Make your way over to http://LyncUG.com and get registered!

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Lync Backup Service Related Cmdlets Fail

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Kevin Peters

While working on a Lync Server 2013 deployment I ran into an issue with the commands related to the Lync Backup Service: Invoke-CsBackupServiceSync Get-CsBackupServiceStatus When I ran them I would receive the following error You don’t have required permission to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Get-CsBackupServiceStatus, Invoke-CsBackupServiceSync, Lync 2013, Lync 2013 Backup Service, Lync 2013 Replication, Lync 2013 WCF, Lync Management Shell, Lync Server 2013, You don't have required permission to perform Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) call to backup service instance on computer | 1 Comment

Deploying Lync 2013 – Part 2

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Kevin Peters

Today we’ll pick up where we left off in Part 1. The focus for this part of the article is to add a second Lync Standard Edition Pool for disaster recovery purposes. When we finish the environment, will have two … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Deploy Lync 2013, Lync, Lync 2013 Deployment, Lync 2013 Disaster Recovery, Lync 2013 DR, Lync 2013 Failover, Lync Server 2013, Lync Server 2013 Deployment | 6 Comments

OCSGUY QuickUI Updated for Lync 2013 on Server 2012

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Kevin Peters

Hi All, I’ve updated the OCSGuy QuickUI to install pre-req’s for Lync 2013 Front Ends on Server 2012. You can download from the scripts center or here: http://bit.ly/o5w0h2 Enjoy!! (Remember if you borrow the code it is polite to give … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Lync 2013 – Part 1

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Kevin Peters

As I’ve done with Lync 2010 and OCS 2007 R2 I’ve decided to write an article on how to deploy Lync 2013. Like in previous years this will be a multi-part post, this being part 1. However; unlike the previous … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Installing Lync, Lync, Lync 2013 Deployment, Lync Server 2013, Lync2013, Unified Messaging, Wave 15 | 26 Comments

Stare and Compare Utility

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Kevin Peters

While working with a customer I found the need to regularly compare different client, voice and conferencing policies. This meant a lot of time spent staring at 2 policies to see what was different. Since I didn’t feel staring at … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Client Policy, Compare-object, Conferencing Policy, Lync 2010, Lync Compare Policies, Voice Policy | Leave a comment

Lync Phone Edition: Connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Kevin Peters

Today I’d like to talk about certificates and a problem that seems to be becoming more and more common with Lync Phone Edition. The problem is that Lync Phone Edition devices that are tethered receive the message “Connection to Microsoft … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aries, Connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable, Exchange 2010, Lync, Lync 2010, Lync Phone Edition, Tanjay | 17 Comments

Push Notification Fails with a 504 Server Time Out

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Kevin Peters

While troubleshooting push notification failure issues with a client, I found an interesting problem. The client had already configured the SRV record as required (http://blog.ucmadeeasy.com/), and disabled the URL filtering as required (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2664650), but push notification was still failing with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 504 Push, federation, Lync 2010, Lync Federation, Lync Mobile, Lync Mobile Push, No match for domain in DNS SRV results, PNCH 504 | 4 Comments

Lync Mobility Server Side Bits Available

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Kevin Peters

Quick update, the MCX package is now available from Microsoft. These bits along with CU4 allow you to turn on Lync mobile client functionality. The client bits will be available on the appstores/mareketplaces for the phone some time before the end … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Lync 2010, Lync Mobile, Lync Mobile Client, Lync Mobility, Lync Server 2010 | 10 Comments

Lync Hardware Load Balancer Monitoring Port

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Kevin Peters

If you are using a hardware load balancer, it will do periodic health checks for Lync to make sure it is distributing the load to servers that are functioning. Because of the checks, you may end up with a large … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 14502 Lync, Error 14502, LS Protocol Stack, Lync, Lync 2010, Lync load balancer, Lync Server 2010 | 5 Comments