This is the final post in the Twelve Days of Lync’mas series, to see an index of all twelve posts, click here. On the twelfth day of Lync’mas my UC team gave to me: Support for Windows and SQL Server 2012. Introduction Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012 for the 12th day of Lync’mas… […]
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The Eleventh Day of Lync’mas: Unified Communications Resources
This is part eleven of a twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the eleventh day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: Eleven Unified Communications resources (web sites, blogs, and social media references). I could list over 100+ links to my favorite Lync websites and blogs, […]
Lync Server 2013 Internal Server Roles
This is post 10 of the twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts, click here. On the 10th day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: 10 Lync Internal Server Roles! On the surface (No PUN intended), Lync 2013 is, or at least was upon release, widely perceived to not […]
Lync Conference 2013 – T minus 9 weeks and counting!
This is part nine of The Twelve Days of Lync’mas, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the ninth day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: a trip to Lync Conf… in 9 weeks! Nine weeks and counting until the first ever Lync Conference. Nine weeks sounds like a […]
Lync Edge – Best Practices for Public IP Addresses
This is part seven of The Twelve Days of Lync’mas, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the seventh day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: 7 public IP addresses Introduction A question that I am often asked when planning Lync Edge servers is “how many public IP addresses do […]
Lync 2013 Architecture and the Hex Core CPU
This is part six of The Twelve Days of Lync’mas, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the sixth day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: 6 core CPUs Introduction Remember when multi-core CPUs first came out? Not so long ago I remember thinking, dual cores on one socket, […]
The Fourth Day of Lync’mas: Lync and Paging Best Practices
This is part four of a twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the fourth day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: Lync Enterprise Voice and Overhead Paging Best Practices. Before we deep dive into the technical details, you might be wondering how does overhead paging […]
Using PowerShell in Windows Server 2012 to create a simple lab
I’ve been meaning to sit down and spend some time exploring the new Active Directory cmdlets that come with Windows Server 2012 so I decided to use my lab to create some test objects and populate the mailboxes with some messages. My lab setup is very simple: 1 – Windows Server 2012 domain controller 1 […]
The Third Day of Lync’mas: SQL DB Mirroring
This is part three of a twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the third day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: three SQL Servers
Lync Paired Pools – Why it Matters
This is part 2 of a twelve post series. To see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the second day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: two paired pools! Introduction Lync 2010 was a breakout version for Microsoft’s UC platform. The major improvements in voice, video and conferencing shot Microsoft […]
Converting a DiskPart script to PowerShell on Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell 3.0 offer thousands of new cmdlets to make any scripter happy. One set of cmdlets had me intrigued when I first heard about them. The cmdlets in the storage module interested me because frequently I would have to deploy a bunch of new Exchange servers and depending on the design […]
Lync and the role of the media gateway
This is part one of a twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the first day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: a media gateway for PSTN connectivity. In the song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” the first day is the building block for the other […]