While working on a new Skype for Business Server 2015 Enterprise Edition Pool, a colleague of mine noticed an error on just one out of the 12 servers… They were all deployed at the same time, all had Windows Update ran with the same number of patches, and all had…
Welcome back, If you’ve not done so, please read the previous article in this mini-series – Skype Operations Framework – Introduction I think it’s becoming obvious that these articles won’t be technical in nature, but they are still aimed at us Consultant-types, including Architects and Project Managers, but also equally support and…
It turns out that neglecting a blog for over 12 months is surprisingly easy, right from that first time I didn’t click ‘publish’, then month by month – life and hobbies got in the way. Let’s get back into the swing of things with a mini-series on Skype Operations Framework. Article 1 – Introduction…
It’s fairly well blogged and documented that you’ll need ‘a disk’ with ‘at least 32 Gb free’ to be able to perform the Skype for Business in-place upgrade. The pre-requisite checker even tells you… Before this server can be upgraded, the following must be resolved: Unable to find suitable drives…
In some organisations, it can be a complex task to create a sensible and resilient Enterprise Voice configuration, and it can be difficult when working on new environment’s and seeing their configuration for the first time. Wouldn’t it be good if you could quickly show the flow from any particular…
This issue was brought to my attention by Mika Ullgren (known as @Techmikal on Twitter – an expert in Security and Authentication). The issue was on a Lync Standard Edition Server with collocated Persistent Chat. After applying the latest December 2014 v2 Cumulative Update, the Persistent Chat webpage didn’t work…
Do you have both Skype and Lync clients signed in at the same time? I do. I have Lync for work, and Skype for friends and family. Sure, it’s possible to federate between Lync and Skype, but who wants silly chit-chat, and random things said in jest with friends to…
Welcome to 2015… And I’ll start by clearing out the cupboard, as this post is made up from a few things that have been kicking around in my drafts folder for a while, I never managed to find a theme, or topic to join them all together, then I thought…
Working in IT, obviously means that I’m an inpatient sort of person. One of the most frustrating moments dealing with Lync is waiting for Central Management Store replication. The PowerShell cmdlet is Get-CsManagementStoreReplicationStatus or as everybody knows it Get-CsMan<tab><tab> And then to see if it’s completed, the ritual keyboard banging…
I wrote this script, partly to help a friend, and partly to follow on from my previous article called Lync Central Forest Topology with Forefront Identity Manager (FIM). In that article I tried to explain what FIM is, what it does, and the situations when it relates to Lync. If…
