Common Area Phone Configuration in Lync
Jeff SchertzWith the introduction of the new Lync Phone Edition client in Lync Server 2010 there is now a way to support basic telephony functionality without having to login as a…
Publishing Lync Director Web Services
When deploying a Director server or pool in Lync Server 2010 it is important to understand how this change in the internal topology will impact the externally published web services…
Lync Database Creation Error
During a recent deployment I ran into a snag attempting to deploy the Monitoring Server role in Lync Server 2010. The scenario was that during the initial topology publishing the…
Polycom and Lync Video Integration
As of last week Polycom has released official support for native Lync integration with HDX Telepresence endpoints and RMX Infrastructure bridges among other products. Although Lync integration has been technically…
Lync Phone Edition Incompatible with Wildcard Certificates
As discussed in this previous article I am not a big fan of wildcard certificates. Here is another reason why. Lync Phone Edition devices do not support the use of…
Wildcard Certificates in Lync Server
Just to set a precedence up front I want to make it clear that I’m still completely against using wildcard certificates in any Lync deployments. Wildcard entries were never supported…
Updating Lync Phone Edition Devices
By default an installation of Lync Server does not contain any pre-installed or pre-approved updates, this must be performed manually by an administrator. This is basically the same process as…
Manual VLAN Configuration for Lync Phone Edition
In environments with managed switches and VLANs which do not support the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) it may be necessary to pass the VLAN identifier to Lync Phone Edition…
HDX SIP Registration with Server 2008 R2
As OCS 2007 R2 has officially supported running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 system for nearly a year now there are a growing number of deployments on this version. …
Externally Provisioning Lync Phone Edition
I recently touched on this topic in the blog article Deploying Lync Phone Edition Devices and decided it warranted its own article as it’s commonly misunderstood that all Aries devices…