Teams, Skype4B, Exchange & O365 Technical
Incredibly useful post by Mark Vale(@unifiedvale) on how to recover from a corrupt CMS. Please do note the points in the article about making a backup of your Lync environment. You never know when you need it.
Source: Skype for Business – Recover Your Deployment from a Deleted or Corrupt CMS
Implementing backup of your Lync/Skype for Business environment can be accomplished in many ways. Please check out MVP Lasse Wedoe’s blog on how to as one of several resources.
In a short period of time I’ve encountered two different cases of the Edge server not replicating. Everything seems OK, but the changes simply won’t move to the Edge.
I found a great blogpost by Jaap Wesselius here that describes the exact problem and how to fix it.
Simply add the following to the registry of the Skype/Lync Edge server:
New REG_DWORD(32bit) ClientAuthenticationTrustMode with value “2” in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL
Restart the Edge server(not just the services) and toggle the Skype/Lync replication service on the FrontEnd server. Wait a few and the replication should be OK.
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. Continue reading “Lync Server 2013: Fix for Event ID 32054 (in an all 2013 environment)”
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). Continue reading “Lync Enterprise voice calls disconnecting.”
With the new Windows Server 2012 and the enhanced certificate control, some may have experienced different “strange” error scenarios. Features stop working, and servers are behaving strange.
In Lync, one of the most common situations is when federation stops working. In most cases, you’re able to see Messages in the event log on you Access edge server indicating that something is wrong with the certificates. The Server 2012 has a more strict certificate handling than previous server versions, and the placing of certificates in the certificate store is critical.
Make sure that no intermediate certificates are placed under Trusted Root Certificates. If they are, this will break the certificate structure on the server and strange errors will start to appear in the event logs.
To check if you have certificates in the wrong stores, the following PS command can be run(it will list the certificates with wrong location):
Get-Childitem cert:\LocalMachine\root -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.Issuer -ne $_.Subject} | Format-List * | Out-File “c:\computer_filtered.txt”
A common challenge when deploying Lync in an enterprise voice environment, is to have the Lync Client behave as close to an “ordinary” phone as possible.
One common “problem” is the busy-on-busy. When an incomming call is routed to a Lync Client already in a call, you would want the caller to get a busy tone. This is, by default, not a function in Lync. To get this behavior, one would have to do it by using MSPL scripting as referred to in this article(not tested, so I don’t know if this actually Works) or use a Third party Application.
I’ve recently deployed this in a small environment using Busy-On-Busy from UnifySquare.
This is a fairly cheap solution, and it’s very easy to set up and configure. The functionality is also delivered in larger call center applications/suites like Competella Unified Communication Suite for Microsoft Lync.
You decide which is the best option in your environment 🙂
Back from three weeks of vacation, and I thought I would share some news for a start 🙂
Check out this blogpost on the Lync Team Blog for an overview of the new features available With the Lync 2013 CU2.
Pay special attention to the new embedded images feature, which I’ve been asked about almost in every deployment I’ve made 🙂
Be aware that the server has to be updated With CU2 before the client features are available.
I’ve had several customers and colleagues asking about reverse number lookup in Lync, but has not been able to figure out how this is supposed to be working until recently.
Came accross this article which set me off in the right direction(at least it’s working).
Lync looks at the following attributes to retrieve phone numbers:
“LineURI” (Lync Management Shell) / “URI” contact attribute
Telephone number attributes in Active Directory
This means, the contact has to be defined as a mail contact on the Exchange server(with phone number in full E164 format), which in turn syncronizes the information with Active Directory and Lync.
Lync doesn’t look directly into AD, but maintains its own copy of the AD attributes in the Offline Address Book. Make sure you force a sync first if you’d like to have up to date information.
This post focuses on some key points I’ve come accross when migrating from Lync 2010 to Lync 2013(causing small delays in progress :)).
This post will be updated as I discover more points to remember during future migration projects.
This is not a post on how to install Office Web App Server in your environment. For a walkthrough of the installation process, check out this blog post by Terence Luk: http://terenceluk.blogspot.no/2012/11/deploying-office-web-apps-server-for.html
So, Publishing Office Web Apps using Forefront TMG:
If you would like to securely publish Office Web Apps to the internet in a Lync environment, you can use a number of solutions. A widely used method is to do this with Microsoft Forefront TMG server, as this solution often is used in connection with Lync web services.
The procedure is to generate a new web publishing rule pointing towards the Office Web App server internal web URL(recommend using the same URL internally as for public publishing eq. https://OfficeWebApps.domain.com in public and internal DNS). The listener would be the same as for Lync web services, and the Office Web Apps URL should be registered with the public IP address of the Forefront TMG server used by the Lync listener.
You would also have to update the excisting SAN certificate used by Lync or create a New Public SSL certificate containing the SAN for the Office Web Apps server(eq. officewebapps.domain.com) and install this certificate on the Office Web Apps Server and the reverse proxy used for internet publishing(the TMG Server).
To test the publishing of the Office Web App server, go to the published URL from an external client and verify that the page displays the XML-output.
If you try testing the Web Publishing Rule from the TMG server, you might experience a “test failed” as shown in this picture.
Even though it seems like the rule won’t work, if you try testing from the internet with the published URL and are able to get the XML-output, you’re good to go.
The test from the TMG server fails because there are no content present in the Virtual web Directory of the Web App server.
Universal Communications, My experiences. 