Discovering the Skype for Business Registrar
Jeff SchertzThis brief article walks through some common steps which can be used to locate the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of a Lync or Skype for Business registrar from either…
Viewing Lync User Telephony Modes in PowerShell
A question was recently asked in the TechNet Lync Server forums which seemed unique enough to warrant a quick blog article based on the fact that it did take a…
Forcing Lync Web App
This article is nothing new to anyone intimately familiar with the TechNet documentation and the various Lync Server configuration settings but is more of an attempt to consolidate various notes…
Wireshark Capture Tips
Using tools like Network Monitor and Wireshark are common place when dealing with troubleshooting issues in Lync Server or when simply attempting to better understand some specific behavior. As Wireshark…
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…
Forcing Lync Address Book Web Query
One of the new features in Lync Server is the ability to use the Address Book Web Query (ABWQ) component in place of the default Address Book Service (ABS) for…
Adding Custom Presence to Lync
Office Communicator has supported the customization of up to 4 additional presence states for some times, and there are many articles all over the Internet on this topic. But I…
Lync 2010 Address Book Normalization
As discussed in a past article the Address Book Normalization process of OCS is a barely-documented and often misunderstood process. The objective of this blog article is to explain how…
Updating the Lync 2010 Address Book
The overall process is basically the same as what Office Communications Server does, but with added flexibility of easily customizing some of the timing of the different events. The entire…
OCS Deployment Log Tips
These are some pretty basic notes, but worth calling out for the benefit of users new to the OCS Deployment Wizard. Troubleshooting deployment issues is pretty common and the logs…