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Lync Server 2010 will not be supported on SQL Server 2012

March 16th, 2012 No comments

A blog post has been published by Damien Caro (a Microsoft IT Pro evangelist based in Paris) on his TechNet blog dispelling rumours and uncertainty around whether Lync Server 2010 will work with the newly RTM’d SQL Server 2012

Damien writes:

“There are some excellent reasons for willing to use SQL 2012 with Microsoft Lync like the support of the new availability model (Always On). However, Lync 2010 is using a feature called DMO (Distributed Management Objects) that was introduced in SQL 7.0 (a long time ago !).

SQL 2012 does not support this feature anymore as it is indicated in this article : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms131540.aspx so SQL 2012 will not be a supported platform for Lync 2010 as it is now.”

Full post over here.

/Tim

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Lync 2010 Mobile / Phone Edition “CU5″ (Feb/Mar 2012)

March 15th, 2012 No comments
  • Microsoft Lync 2010 Phone Edition for Polycom CX500, Polycom CX600 and Polycom CX3000 [UCUpdates.exe version: 7577.4066] (KB2672349, download)
  • Microsoft Lync 2010 Phone Edition for Aastra 6721ip and Aastra 6725ip [UCUpdates.exe version: 7577.4066] (KB2672352, download)
  • Microsoft Lync 2010 Phone Edition for HP 4110 and HP 4120 [UCUpdates.exe version: 7577.4066] (KB2672743, download)
  • Microsoft Lync 2010 Phone Edition for Polycom CX700 and LG-Nortel IP Phone 8540 [UCUpdates.exe version: 7577.4066] (KB2670373, download)
  • Microsoft Lync 2010 for Android [version: 4.1.5014.8880] (updated 23 Feb 2012, download)
  • /Tim

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    Lync 2010 app for Windows Phone updated to version 4.1

    March 15th, 2012 No comments

    It’s been awhile since we’ve seen any movement on the Lync front for Windows Phone, so it’s nice to see the mobile app gets a small update to version 4.1.

    The popular mobile app for the Lync service has an anticipated update for Windows Phone.

    There is no changelog published to detail what, if anything, is changed. If you notice anything different, comment below so we all keep posted about the changes!

    /Tim

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    Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Multitenant Pack

    January 9th, 2012 No comments

    Microsoft has released the MS Lync Server 2010 Multitenant Pack.

    Microsoft®Lync™ Server 2010 Multitenant Pack for Partner Hosting is a unified communications (UC) solution for telecom and hosting providers. Unified communications is a way for telecom and hosting providers to expand their service offering to their current customers.

    The Deployment Guide can be downloaded here

    Note: Please be aware that some features such as Call Park and Public IM is not supported!

    Features Comparision:

     

    Lync Server feature Lync Multitenant Hosting Pack Lync Online
    Presence    
    Contacts list Yes Yes
    Address Book Service Web Query service Yes Yes
    Distribution List Expansion protocol (DLX) Yes Yes
    Instant Messaging (IM)    
    Point-to-point IM Yes Yes
    Multiparty/Group IM Yes Yes
    Group Chat No No
    Client Support    
    Lync desktop client Yes Yes
    Mac Messenger Yes Yes
    Attendee (meeting only) Yes Yes
    Lync Mobile on:

    iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone 7, Android

    Yes Yes
    Conferencing and Sharing    
    Point-to-point audio/video Yes Yes
    Video conferencing over IP Yes Yes
    Audio conferencing over IP only Yes Yes
    Meeting recording Yes Yes
    Ad-hoc audio dial-out conferencing Yes

    via SIP Trunk

    Yes

    via SIP Trunk

    “Meet now” audio dial-out conferencing Yes

    via ACP

    Yes

    via ACP

    Scheduled audio dial-out conferencing Yes

    via ACP

    Yes

    via ACP

    Sharing    
    Point-to-point/multiparty data conference (white boarding) Yes Yes
    Point-to-point/multiparty file share Yes Yes
    Point-to-point/multiparty desktop and application sharing Yes Yes
    Point-to-point/multiparty Microsoft PowerPoint® slide sharing Yes Yes
    Polling Yes Yes
    Integration    
    Microsoft Outlook integration for IM, presence, calendar

    (with users on the same hosting partner)

    Yes Yes
    Microsoft SharePoint® integration for IM, presence

    (with users on the same hosting partner)

    Yes Yes
    PIC and Federation    
    Intertenant federation Yes Yes
    Federation with Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) No No
    Public IM connectivity and presence

    Windows Live®, AOL®, Yahoo!®

    No Yes
    Public IM connectivity audio/video

    Windows Live

    No Yes
    Basic calling features    
    Public switched telephone network (PSTN) calling via Lync

    incoming and outgoing

    Yes Yes
    Call controls

    hold, transfer, forward, simultaneous ring

    Yes Yes
    Voice policies Yes Yes
    Advanced calling features    
    Team call No No
    Response groups No No
    Delegation No No
    Private line (secondary Direct Inward Dialing (DID)) No No
    Call park No No
    Outgoing DID manipulation No No
    Voice features    
    Private dial plans No No
    Hosted Exchange Unified Messaging (UM) for voice mail Yes Yes

    /Tim

     

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    Office 365 quick config for Lync Mobile

    January 5th, 2012 No comments

    If you want to have a play with the new Windows Phone client (WP7) for Lync then Microsoft haven’t quite setup the DNS records yet (or they are still propagating round the internet). Not to worry you can force it by manually specifying some URL’s…

    If you’re using your own domain with Office 365 or on one of the higher plans check these guides… Set up Lync mobile devices and Set up your network for Lync Online.

    Start the Lync mobile client

    Enter your username as: <name>@<domain>.onmicrosoft.com

    Enter your password:

    Specify a username in the same format: <name>@<domain>.onmicrosoft.com

    Toggle the “Auto-detect services” & enter the following as the “External Discovery URL”
    https://meet.lync.com/Autodiscover/autodiscoverservice.svc/Root

    Chances are you’ll never be “internal” to the Office 365 network so we can probably leave the internal one clear for now..!

    It looks like some clients don’t work if you don’t give them an “internal URL” too, so just repeat the process for the Internal Discovery URL:

    You should now be able to connect & enjoy having a play around.

    /Tim

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    Lync 2010 client HowTo guidelines

    August 13th, 2011 No comments

    For all instructions on how to use the Lync 2010 client (schedule meeting, change presence status, make a call…) take a look at the following website.

    http://www.lynctip.be/

    /Tim

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    Prepare AD, Install Topo and define a Front-End pool

    August 12th, 2011 No comments

    After preparing the environment we are ready to start the installation of Lync 2010.

    Please keep in mind that the names and ip’s are fictive in this documentation.

    In this setup I choose to install Archiving and Monitoring on seperate hardware. Also keep in mind that you first have to prepare thes servers the way I described in part 1.

    If you need more information or if you have questions please send an e-mail to tim.peeters@ictinus.be and I will reply or help you as soon as possible.

     

    Prepare Active Directory Domain Services for Lync Server 2010

    The next area for preparation is Active Directory Domain Services. Preparing AD DS for Lync Server 2010 consists of three steps:

    · Schema Preparation

    · Forest Preparation

    · Domain Preparation

    Each of these steps can be performed by using the Lync Server Deployment Wizard or the Lync Server Management Shell cmdlets directly.

     

    Install Topology Builder and define Topology for Lync Front-End Pool

    Now we have all of the infrastructure preparation complete, so it’s time to move on to defining the topology for Lync 2010 Enterprise Edition in Topology Builder.

    1. Log on to Lync Front-End server

    2. Go to Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Lync Server 2010, and then click Lync Server Topology Builder.

    3. On the Topology Builder dialog box, select the New Topology option, and then click OK.

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    4. On the Save New Topology As dialog box, enter a name in the File name field, and then click OK.

    5. On the Define the primary domain page, enter the primary SIP domain, and then click Next.

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    6. On the Specify additional supported domains page, click Next.

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    7. On the Define the first site page, enter a site name into the Name field, enter a description into the Description field if desired, and then click Next.

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    8. On the Specify site details page, enter the location details, and then click Next.

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    9. On the New topology was successfully defined page, ensure the Open the New Front End Wizard when this wizard closes option is selected, and then click Finish.

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    10. The Define the New Front End Pool wizard opens. Click Next.

    11. On the Define the Front End pool FQDN page, type pool1.domain.local into the Pool FQDN field, ensure the Enterprise Edition Front End Pool option is selected, and then click Next.

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    12. On the Define the computers in this pool page, enter lyncserver.domain.local into the Computer FQDN field, click Add, and then click Next.

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    13. On the Select features page, check all options you need and then click Next.

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    14. On the Select collocated server roles page, collocate A/V Conferencing service, and then click Next.

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    15. On the Associate server roles with this Front End pool page, select all options, and then click Next.

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    16. On the Define the SQL store page, select the Define a new SQL store option, enter the specified into the SQL Server FQDN field, ensure the SQL Instance option is selected, enter the specified name into the Named Instance field, and then click Next.

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    17. On the Define the file share page, select the Define a new file share option, enter the specified name into the File Server FQDN field, enter the file share name into the File Share field, and then click Next.

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    18. On the Specify the Web Services URL page, click Finish.

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    19. On the Select an Archiving Server page, click New.

    20. On the Define the fully qualified domain name page, enter the specified name into the FQDN field, and then click Next.

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    21. On the Define the SQL store page, select the Use a previously defined SQL store option, enter the specified name into the SQL Server FQDN field.

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    22. On the Define the file store page, select the Use a previously defined file share option, select the the specified file share from the drop down, and then click Next.

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    23. On the Select an Archiving Server page, click Finish.

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    24. On the Select a Monitoring Server page, click New.

    25. On the Define the fully qualified domain name page, enter the specified name into the FQDN field, and then click Next.

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    26. On the Define the SQL store page, select the Use a previously defined SQL store option, enter the specified name into the SQL Server FQDN field, and then click Finish.

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    27. On the Select a Monitoring Server page, click Finish.

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    28. You will be presented with the Lync Server 2010, Topology Builder page, which is where you can view and modify the topology that was just created.

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    /Tim

    Next part (part 3) will be Publishing the Topology and Setup the Lync 2010 Front-End server and Front-End pool.

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    Lync 2010 Enterprise Edition Installation

    August 9th, 2011 No comments

    This guide will run through a consolidated Enterprise edition install (without voice gateway integration, whereby all roles will be deployed on virtual machines.

    The guide will be split up in different chapters.

    The first chapter is all about preparing your Lync 2010 environment.

     

    Prepare the Lync 2010 Enterprise Edition Server Infrastructure

    The following sections outline the step to prepare the Lync 2010 Enterprise Edition server infrastructure.

    1. Set Up Enterprise Edition Hardware and System Infrastructure

    2. Install Prerequisite Software

    · Lync Server requires Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 with SP1.

    · Prerequisite software for database servers.

    · Message Queuing. Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) role components and Directory Service Integration should be installed on the Front End Server, the Archiving Server, and the Monitoring Server if you plan to deploy the Lync Server 2010 Archiving or Monitoring Server roles. The Message Queuing components can be found in Server Manager or can be deployed by using servermanagercmd.exe or the Add-WindowsFeature Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

    · Configure IIS:

    Role Heading

    Role Service

    Common HTTP features installed

    Static content

    Common HTTP features installed

    Default document

    Common HTTP features installed

    HTTP errors

    Application development

    ASP.NET

    Application development

    .NET extensibility

    Application development

    Internet Server API (ISAPI) extensions

    Application development

    ISAPI filters

    Health and diagnostics

    HTTP logging

    Health and diagnostics

    Logging tools

    Health and diagnostics

    Tracing

    Security

    Anonymous authentication (installed and enabled by default)

    Security

    Windows authentication

    Security

    Client Certificate Mapping authentication

    Security

    Request filtering

    Performance

    Static content compression

    Management Tools

    IIS Management Console

    Management Tools

    IIS Management Scripts and Tools

    · Install the Remote Server Administration Tools

    · Install Silverlight

    Silverlight is required to run the Lync Server Control Panel. Although we won’t be using the Control Panel until everything is installed, you can install it now since we’re installing the prerequisite software. Silverlight needs to be installed on the Front-End servers.

    · Install and Configure SQL Server

    Lync Server 2010 leverages SQL Server for the back-end database and the Archiving and Monitoring databases. SQL Server needs to be installed before we can install Lync Server 2010. For this lab, SQL Server 2008 with Service Pack 1 will be used, and installed on the Back End Server as well as the Monitoring/Archiving Server.

    3. DNS records

    Lync Server 2010 leverages DNS for various features. Certain DNS records are required as part of the infrastructure preparation. Each server within this lab will already have an A record in DNS. This is attributed to the fact that I am using Active Directory-Integrated DNS, which has Dynamic DNS enabled by default. However, there are additional DNS records that are required before we proceed, including:

    pool1.domain.com

    A

    IP of Front End Server

    admin.domain.com

    A

    IP of Front End Pool

    sip.domain.com

    A

    IP of Front End Pool

    _sipinternaltls._tcp.domain.com

    SRV

    sip.domain.com

    Port: 5061

    4. Grant Administration Permissions

    Follow these steps to grant Administration permissions:

    1. Ensure you are in the Users Container in Active Directory Users and Computers.

    2. In the details pane, locate the CsAdministrator group, right-click on it, and select Properties.

    3. On the CsAdministrator Properties page, click on the Members tab.

    4. Click Add.

    5. On the Select Users, Contacts, Computers, Service Accounts, or Groups dialog box, type Administrator in the Enter the object names to select field, and then click OK.

    6. On the CsAdministrator Properties page, click OK.

    5. Create the Lync File Share

    The user account that we will use to publish the topology must have full control (read/write/modify) on the file share in order for Topology Builder to configure the required permissions. Because I’m going with an Enterprise Edition deployment, the file share cannot be located on the Front End Server. As a result, We prefer to create the file share on the Monitoring/Archiving Server.

    Log on to Lync Monitoring/Archiving server

    2. Go Start, click Computer, and then click Local Disk (C:).

    3. Right-click in the Details Pane, select New, and then select Folder.

    4. Name the new folder LyncShare.

    5. Right-click on the LyncShare folder, select Properties, click on the Sharing Tab, and then click Advanced Sharing.

    6. On the Advanced Sharing dialog box, select the Share this folder option, leave the Share Name field as LyncShare.

     

    /Tim

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    Lync Server 2010 Setup or Remove Lync Components fails on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

    August 1st, 2011 No comments

    When installing Lync at a customer on Server 2008 R2 SP1, the installation failed with the following error while adding the first Lync Server Components:

    Problem: The Lync Server 2010 Setup or Remove Component installation prerequisite check cannot locate the  Server 2008 R2 SP1 version of Microsoft Windows Media Format.

    Use the command line listed below from a command prompt window to install Windows Media Format Runtime for Server 2008 R2 SP1 before you begin the installation of Lync Server 2010:

    %systemroot%\system32\dism.exe /online /add-package /packagepath:%windir%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-Media-Format-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.7601.17514.mum /ignorecheck

     /Tim

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    Lync 2010 NTLM Client Authentication Mismatch

    August 1st, 2011 No comments

    After installing Lync at one of our customers we experienced the following problem when the user was trying to log in.

    When I try to make the remote sign-in with the appropriate credentials, Lync reports me “Cannot sign in to Lync. Lync was unable to sign in. Please verify your logon credentials. But it only happened on Windows XP/Windows 7 machines.

    When I try to sign-in using the same credentials and Windows 2008 R2 as the client, Lync is signin in!

    TheLync server was running Windows 2008 R2. With Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2, 128-bit encryption is (by default) required for all NTLM authentication requests. After disabling the 128-bit encryption requirement using information from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd566199(WS.10).aspx and running a gpupdate the computer was able to authenticate successfully.

    /Tim

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