Replace TMG Forefront 2010, what shall you do?

As we all know the Forefont TMG 2010 is a Product that is about to end. Microsoft has said this: Microsoft announced the Forefront TMG 2010 product will be discontinued. Microsoft will continue to provide mainstream support for TMG until April 14, 2015.

New features for Lync Room System

There are lots of you out there who has Lync Room System also known as LRS.
There are some new features that has come out yesterday.

You can read about them there:
http://blogs.office.com/2014/12/15/lync-room-system-feature-updates/#.VI8rm-3G41o.twitter

Jabra Evolve series.....how are they? What do people say about them?

I was so Lucky to win a Jabra Evolve 80 MS Stereo and then because I like headset and is about to start my campaign "Good headset for kids at School". Jabra send me for free and for test the following:

Jabra Evolve 20
Jabra Evolve 40
Jabra Evolve 65

All the Lync Versions.
My co-workers has tried tthem and use them in Our Office or out working for Our customers.

Lync 2013 and Skype video

Under Friday 5th desember we did get Video from Lync to Skype. This is a part of where we are going to move into Skype4Business. This feature was talked about during the Lync Conf14 in Las Vegas, and now it's here.
Here you find the Lync Team Blog and can read more about it:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/lync/archive/2013/05/23/lync-skype-connectivity-available-today.aspx

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.