Posts Tagged ‘Lync’

Microsoft provides documentation on how to create single common area phone accounts, but there is limited documentation on how to actually create the common area phone accounts in bulk. Below is a breakdown on the bulk account creation process. Script Prerequisites Create a New Client Policy to Support Hot-Desking As indicated in the TechNet article, […]

I was recently working with a colleague to determine how to control the behavior of the Lync client when joining Lync Online Meetings (e.g. https://meet.contoso.com/jdoe/XXXXX). If everything is set up correctly, everything magically works! Well what happens if you want to use the Lync Web App to join meetings (rare) or if the Lync client […]

I recently visited a client who was having a miserable time getting the Lync Central Management Store database created during the Topology publishing process. They kept seeing errors similar to below: Error: Script failed (code “ERROR_CREATE_DB”) when installing “CentralMgmtStore” on “lyncserver.company.com”. For details, see the following log file: “C:UsersadminacctAppDataLocalTempCreate-CentralMgmtStore-lyncserver.company.com-[2011_01_03][10_32_38].log” 1/3/2011 10:32:38 AM Error Error: An […]

I am working with a customer to migrate their OCS 2007 R2 environment to Lync 2010. Initially, a single Lync Enterprise Front-End server was installed and placed behind a hardware load balancer. As there was only a single front-end server configured at the time, the internal and external web services URLs matched the Lync pool […]

February 2nd, 2011 was a great day in weather punditry. A lot of the country was blanketed in snow; Chicago was no exception. Businesses and schools closed, people were sent home, weather commentators and the blogosphere were busy generating nicknames: Snowpocalypse Snowmageddon SNOMG!! The SNOWotorious BIG (I think that I lean towards #4, for what […]

Lync 2010 gives users the ability to record both peer-to-peer calls as well as conference calls. It’s a handy built-in feature in the Lync 2010 client: However – I’ve noticed that there isn’t a way to record PSTN calls: I’m not 100% why PSTN calls wouldn’t be able to be recorded. Maybe because they are […]

At the beginning of the year, PointBridge moved to a new office in Chicago. As part of the move, we moved all of our collaboration/communication to Lync 2010. We used to have an OCS R2 <–> Cisco CallManager integration for voice needs. But now – it’s 100% Lync for all employees. And I’m happy to […]

I was recently at a client configuring Lync Dial-In Conferencing. All functionality worked within the Lync environment as well as between the internal Cisco phones. When testing external PSTN access to the Lync Dial-In Conferencing bridge, I noticed that the call would connect with two-way audio but DTMF signaling was not being accepted. Below is […]

Due to Microsoft’s announcement this morning I have added one final update to this blog. Microsoft has released product information and Release Candidate software for Lync Server 2010. More details can be found here: Presence Goes Green on Microsoft Lync 2010