Jabra Evolve 65 UC Stereo

Today I finaly got my Jabra Evolve 65. WOW, what a headset. It just so great. No Cable. The sound in this is great. The fittings is great.
To install it, just plug in the USB 360 dongle and you are ready.
Remember to charge the headset using the cable that follows With it and soon you are ready.
Together With Lync and With Your Mobile phone, it just Works.

This headset is simple to use and it just Works. It will be great for Lync Pro and for Office users in Contact Centers.
I have just testet the stereo and fits nice also if you have glasses. On of my co-workers tried it and he just loved it.
This will be the new standard headset where I work. If you want more information about it just send me and Message here in this blog or on twitter @kaistenberg

Lync becomes SKYPE for Business

As many of us have seen the other days is that Lync will now change name to Skype for Business. For us who is installing Lync what will this say for us?
Where are this going?

Jabra Evolve series

From next week will I start to test all the headset's in the Jabra Evolve series. I have earlier written a blog about the Evolve 80, who I think is one of the best Lync Pro headsets with cable that I have been tested so far.
So just follow this blog and you will get the result of the Evolve Series.

Thanks to Jabra Norway who are letting me have these headsets.

SNOM m9r at homeoffice

An ex-coworker of me Kjetil Lindløkken @Evry has written a blogpost about how to get the Snom M9r to work on you local network.
http://drlync.blogspot.no/2014/10/how-to-setup-snom-m9r-for-lync-2013.html#more

Well, knowing this, I had to take it a bit longer. Would this work at my homeoffice.
So I took it from my Office @Skill and home. Plugged it in and cleared all the log's on the base, and restartet it.
Ofcourse it working. My network is from Altibox and I have some kind of a WIFI/cable router from NetGear.

Lync on MAC part 2

I have earlier written about how to get Lync running on Your MAC. Well I have an update.
You can read the first here:
http://lync2013blog.blogspot.no/2014/10/lync-on-mac.html
And here is the update that you might have to do aswell.

1.go to setting "regional language prefs"

2. Move second place language in the list to the top (by dragging it up list)

3. Restart

4. Return original language to top of list

5. Restart

6. Lync is now working

 

Lot's of thanks to my Co-worker @skill named Trond Jelsnes Undrum who found this way deep down in MAC forum........

Headsets for the Lync Pro

Yesterday I was the lucky one who was one of three who won the Jabra Evolve 80 headset. I have today tried this out on my homeoffice.

Let's start a campaign.....

I was yesterday on a meeting with Jabra, and this made me think. Are you knowable that in Norway we are spending 2.7 billion NOK because we are getting problems with hearing. They get Tinitus and other issues so that they need hearing aid. Do you want this?

Microsoft Ignite, Chicago 4-8 May 2015

Dear Reader of my blog......Be ready for this.

Error in the event log after upgrade from Lync 2010 to Lync 2013, try to resolve the old pool

I have been struggle With an error in the eventlog telling that the fronend server tries to replicate to the old dedeployed Lync 2010 server after uninstalled the old server and fileshare.
Working together With Microsoft support we found that the error was related to the XDS database was not updated or contained the correct information.

Lync 2013 October Update 2014 for Lync Client

The October update 2014 for Lync Client 2013 is out.
Now you can hide Picture in IM sessions is one of the New Things in this update.
For more information check out this URL:
http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/14/simpler-better-instant-messaging-options-lync-2013/

Headset and bad sound kills Lync

I have earlier talked about how important there is with headset for Lync. If the users shall have good experience using Lync, well headset is the main thing to put Your Money into.
It can be said so easy.....Bad Sound Kills Lync.

Lync on MAC

When you want to use Lync on MAC you must remember to import the local CA root certificate. You can get the root CA from Your IT Department or you can export the certificate from Your local computer.
When this is installed then you must fill out Your sip address and on Advanced type Your domain\username and Your password.
Then just Login and you are good to go.

Lync 2013, September 2014 patch

Today I downloaded the Lync 2013, september 2014 patch to run the install for the Company I work work. It was downloaded from this site:http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2809243
We have a plan that we want to install it on out internal Lync 2013 environment before we install it for our customers.
Well I have noticed something strange duing the installation of this patch.

1. On my FrontEnd server the web Components failed to Upgrade and we had to reboot the FrontEnd server and run the LyncServerUpdateInstaller.msi again to get it installed and updated.
2. On the Edge server the update of Windows Fabric failed, and had to reboot it and so update it again.

I had the same issue when I did  the August 2014 patch for Lync 2013 server, but there I had it on the FrontEnd and Edge server that Windows Fabric failed to Upgrade.

Anyone out there had this same issue when updateing to September 2014 patch?

Lot's of strange behavior when change certificate on Lync 2013 Edge server

This is a strange thing when you are change the external certificate for Lync 2013 Edge server. We did for a customer changed from Geocities to Comodo certificate.

After that we got this strange error in the Eventlogg: Event ID 14428, LS Protocol Stack
TLS outgoing connection failures.

Over the past 8 minutes, Lync Server has experienced TLS outgoing connection failures 18 time(s). The error code of the last failure is 0x80072746 while trying to connect to the server
Then I did a lot of search on uncle Google, but I was not able to find any solutions to this issue.

Proxy error on the client and certificate error

The other day I was struggeling with some strange errors on a Lync deployment I did for one of my customers.
The first was that some users did get this error:

August 2014 server patch for Lync 2013 Enterprise Edition

I have been installing the Lync 2013 August 2014 patches on different Lync 2013 installations. On one installation where we had a Enterprise edtion with 3 servers for the FrontEnd. The first server it all went fine. When I started on the second server it went quite well but the last part of the patch that contains Windows Fabric, it failed.

Using ISS ARR as a reverse proxy for Lync

Since TMG Forefront is soon to be close for sale we have to think and look into other reverse proxy solution.
From what we can read from Microsoft is this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dn788945.aspx

For a new customer I have installed the ISS ARR as a reverse proxy and this is what I did.

Gartner Magic Quadrant 2014

As we can see. Microsoft is now the leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant. Cisco has the latest two years been the leader.

From the report we can read this.

Microsoft Lync

Microsoft Lync offers a full suite of UC functionality that Microsoft continues to improve with each release. It integrates with Office applications, Active Directory and Skype. Microsoft has a broad set of additional business applications that will increasingly be leveraged, including Office Graph (which uses machine learning to define the context and connect users with relevant documents, conversations and people) and Cortana (a digital assistant).

Powershell Script enable users in different OU's and with enterprise Voice

To make Automatic enable users from AD to Lync With Enterprise Voice. I have made a PowerShell script to do this.
This script can be used as a scheduled task.  This can be used as you want it.
Here is the code:

#Script for automatic enable users for Lync 2013

#THere can be used list of OU,DC if users are in different OU's.

#Remember to change RegistrarPool

#SipAddresser is EQ Mailaddress

#Made by Kai Stenberg, Solution Architect Lync Skill AS
  



#$write shall be set to $true when running the script in production
  $write = $false;




#Delete old files if the script has been run before
  if (Test-Path c:\temp\disabledLyncUsers.txt) {

del c:\temp\disabledLyncUsers.txt;



}
 if (Test-Path c:\Temp\enabledLyncUsers.txt) {

del c:\Temp\enabledLyncUsers.txt;



}
 #set up your list of OU's and domain name

#See the example under, has to be changed to your settings
  $adOus = ("OU=Employees,OU=Users,OU=HQ,DC=domain,DC=local",

"OU=Employees,OU=Users,OU=Bergen,DC=domain,DC=local")




#New users will be enabled and Enterprice voice ready
  foreach ($ou in $adOus) {

$newLyncUser = get-csaduser -OU $ou -filter { Enabled -ne $true }




  foreach ($user in $newLyncUser) {

if ($write) {

$user | Enable-csuser -RegistrarPool <poolname of Lync> -SipAddressType EmailAddress;

$user | Set-CsUser -EnterpriseVoiceEnabled $true;




  #If using other Dialplan or voice policy then Global please remove the # on the next 2 rows

#$user | Set-CsUser -Dialplan "<name of dialplan>"

#$user | Set-CsUser -VoicePolicy "<name of Voicepolicy>"



}
  else {

$user | Out-File -Append c:\Temp\disabledLyncUsers.txt;



}

}

}


 # get-csaduser -filter {Enabled -ne $True -and OU -iin $adOus} | foreach {

# Enable-CsUser -RegistrarPool <poolnameFQDN> -SipAddressType EmailAddress}

# Set-CsUser -EnterpriseVoiceEnabled $true
  

Telenor Office365 and great stuff going on

There are some interesting things going on here in Norway. As you might know Telenor is now providing telephony in Office365. It’s not Microsoft Office365, but Telenor Office365. You can read about it here in Norwegian….http://www.telenor.no/bedrift/office365/

But what makes this interesting is that this can work together with Azure. This gives the opportunity to run attendant application in Lync 2013, like Competella.

This makes it all very interesting and for small customers that don’t can afford to have Lync 2013 Onpremise but want to replace their PBX, can now go for this solution.