IIS Admin Service ‘missing’ in Lync
Jeff SchertzWhen looking at the Services management console on a Lync 2010 Server role which hosts any web components (e.g. Front End, Director) the IIS Admin service appears to be completely…
Using the Lync Logging Tool
This article will mainly serve as a field-reference in which customers can use to follow specific steps to capture SIP diagnostic logging and properly package it for review by anyone…
Revoked Lync Server Certificates
This is just a brief troubleshooting article on how to easily identify if a revoked SSL certificate is the cause of Lync user login failures in Lync Server 2010. Seemingly…
RMX Virtual Meeting Room Registration in Lync
As briefly mentioned in a previous blog article the latest RMX software release now supports the ability to directly register and advertise presence for a Virtual Meeting Room (VMR). Previously…
Localization and Language Support in Lync Phone Edition
While the original release of Lync Phone Edition only supported English, the first Cumulative Update (CU1) in January of this year introduced a host of new foreign languages on the…
RTV Support Released for Polycom Solutions
As of today Polycom has officially released native support for Microsoft’s Real-Time Video (RTV) media codec in HDX Telepresence endpoints and RMX Conferencing bridges. The HDX also supports Microsoft’s implementation…
Resurrecting the Invalid Numbers File in Lync
Those familiar with Office Communications Server 2007 probably noticed after the first few deployments of Lync Server 2010 that the old Invalid_AD_Phone_Numbers.txt file created by the Address Book Service appeared…
Common Area Phone Configuration in Lync
With 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…