One of my Lync installations presented by Microsoft (Norwegian voice on this)

Microsoft Norway has made a reference video on one of my Lync 2013 installations.

http://vimeo.com/81729164

Changes for me

After more than 6 years in EVRY I'm now change where I work. I'm starting working for Skill AS in Oslo as a Solution Architect working with Lync.
This will be fun I think and when this came up I had to jump on this.
Thanks to EVRY for all the great opertunities I had got there. I will keep working on this blog and will be active over the time.

Have a happy New Year out there.

/Kai

LyncConf 2014

As you know the LyncConf2014 is in Las Vegas 18-20 february. I'm going to be there and will blog live from this Conference.

Dublicate Announcement Service and Responce Groups

A great document from Kjetil Lindløkken @EVRY
http://drlync.blogspot.no/2013/12/duplicate-announcement-service-and-rgs.html

Great thanks to Microsoft Premier Support for helping us to find the error and fix it.

Lync 2013 and Windows server 2012R2

After installing Lync 2013 with October 2013 Update and rebooted the FrontEnd server, we had an issue that the Frontend service was hanging in starting.

Ghos RGS config in Lync 2013

From my friend Kjetil Lindløkken @EVRY
http://drlync.blogspot.no/2013/12/ghost-rgs-config-in-lync-2013.html

Telenor has Enterprise Voice in Office 365

Telenor has announced that they now can deliver Enterprise Voice in Office 365.

Why does not Lync 2013 logs lostcalls in Outlook?

I got an email from a customer today about that Lync 2013 does not show Lost Calls in Outlook more. Well they did not actually miss it. But it would have been nice to have.

What about Lync 2013 and Antivirus

If you consider to have antivirus installed on your Lync 2013 environment be aware that Lync 2013 is not very happy about this.

What about the boot order for Lync 2013 Enterprise Edition?

Time for a article again. This time the boot order of Lync 2013 Enterprise Edition. As we know Lync 2013 is using Windows Fabric to replicate the topology to each server.

What about SIP addresses in Lync 2013?

I have noticed something strange when it comes to SIP addresses in Lync 2013. In Office365 sip addresses with special caraters are just forbidden. Like /()# and more.

Failed to register with back-end database. Microsoft Lync Server 2013

When moveing CMS to another SQL server there can be some issue where you get this kind of error.
Failed to register with back-end database. Microsoft Lync Server 2013, Master Replicator Agent will continuously attempt to reconnect to the back-end. While this condition persists, no replication will be done.

Competella and Lync Conf 2014

It's been a while since I have been posting something new articles here. I been busy working on a huge Lync 2013 case.

How to change the timeout for PSTN Calls

Not very often but from time to time we have problems during make overseas call or make calls to Mobile phones.
The Lync 2010 and 2013 has a value that is set to 10 seconds before it will terminate the calls.

IT-Tinget Tønsberg 25-26 september

EVRY has an huge event here in Norway named IT-Tinget. This year will I attend to this event and I will blog form there on what's happen and how it is.
I will come with daily reports on what is happening.

How to set different SharePoint MySite and Skill Search in Lync 2013

If you have like us a customer with different domains and local SharePoint with local MySite, then you normaly can get this to work with one SharePoint.

How to renew Certificate on the Office Web App Server also known as WAC

Some day the certificate for the Office Web App Server will expire.
Can this be done by useing IIS Manager to change this or is Powershell our friend again?

The secret update on Lync 2013 and SQL Cluster

In the last few days, Microsoft has done some changes in what they support when it comes to SQL Server.

Lync Server 2013 supports the use of either SQL mirroring or SQL clustering for each Lync Server database. You can easily set up SQL mirroring with the Topology Builder tool in Lync Server 2013. For SQL failover clustering, you must use SQL Server deployment tool.

Lync 2013 and SQL Confusing..What is recommended

If you read the documentation for Lync 2013, you will there find out that when it comes to the SQL part, that it can be confusing.

Lync 2013 roster

Finaly its here. The trafic roster for Lync 2013.
http://windowsitpro.com/lync/lync-server-2013-protocol-poster