Over the weekend Microsoft released a new Lync Room System Administrative Web Portal add-on to Lync Server 2013. Not much information is publicly available on this yet, but it is a quick install to get it up and running. Let’s walk through the installation process and have a look at what exactly gets changed “under […]
Trevor Miller
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Unexpected DNS SRV Error with Lync Server and Exchange Online UM
Configuring Lync Server 2010/2013 for integration with Exchange Online for UM is a relatively straight forward process. You need a Lync Edge server, federation enabled, proper external DNS SRV records, the appropriate Hosted Voicemail Policy configuration applied to the on-premise Lync environment, and the Exchange Online UM dial plan configured appropriately. Despite having all that […]
Do Lync Conference Policies Apply to Distribution Groups?
Generally speaking, Conference Policies within Lync Server exist to control functionalities and features when Lync modalities – such as IM, Audio, Video, App Sharing, etc – involve more than two participants. There are some Conference Policy settings that do control peer-to-peer functionalities, but we’ll save that discussion for another day. Any time a Lync modality reaches three […]
Lync 2013 CU2 SIP Federated Provider Updates
External federation within Lync is one of the most powerful B2X communication mechanisms available on the market – the ability to contact other users, across platforms, across providers, completely through the power and openness of the Internet. With Lync 2010 and with the RTM release of Lync 2013, the SIP Federated Providers list was pre-populated […]
Important Server 2012 ARR Hotfix for Lync
With Forefront TMG discontinued and Forefront UAG not supported for all Lync scenarios (hint, hint: mobility), customers will be increasingly looking at deploying ARR to serve as their reverse proxy solution for Lync. The good news is that ARR is fully capable and supported for the reverse proxy role; the bad news is that ARR is still […]
Lync 2013 Address Book Blues
Since the days of OCS, there has been a need for an address normalization process so that phone numbers within Active Directory or Outlook contact lists could be normalized into the recommended E.164 format for usage within Office Communicator and Lync. For most organizations the default rules in Lync are able to handle numbers in […]