Lync for Mac: Addressbook search not working.

When you try to search for a contact in Lync which is not in your contact list, the client would normally display all matching results from your company’s addressbook. However, sometimes this is not working as expected, and you might be wondering why it suddenly stopped.

The answer to this is a corrupt user profile on your Lync for Mac 2011 client.

Script: Lync Certificates Report

A really nice initiative on a matter that’s vital to Lync operations.

Just a Lync Guy

I’ve been doing some troubleshooting lately for a customer which had some issues with expired certificates on his Lync Environment, and asked me how he can monitor or track existing certificates expiration on his Lync environment.

There are great tools out there which helps tracking and monitoring certificates in any environment (not only for Lync), the ones I had a chance to work with are:

• Certificate Expiration Alerter
• Get-CsCertificate
• DigiCert Cert Checker

The problem is that the first tool can run against an internal CA only which means it holds a lot of certificates or alternatively it does not include Public certificates.
The Cmdlet is doing an excellent job in providing the information we need, but it can only run against the local server which might be an issue for an environment with multiple Lync servers and pools.
The third option is easy and very detailed but it is running…

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Lync Server 2013: Fix for Event ID 32054 (in an all 2013 environment)

After spending some time being frustrated over the repeated Event ID 32054 “Storage Service had an EWS Autodiscovery failure.” described in my previous blogpost “lync-server-2013-event-id-32054-ls-storage-service“, I finally came accross the solution for this problem.
Some of you might already know this, but I choose to post this anyway if, for some reason someone don’t.

Lync Enterprise voice calls disconnecting.

In a scenario with Lync 2013 Standard Edition and Enterprise voice, I recently experienced problems with voice calls to PSTN users. All calls would connect normally and last for about 5 mins and 20 sec, and then it looked like the Lync client terminated the call normally(at least thats what the Monitoring reports told me).