Tweaking “Company_Phone_Number_Normalization_Rules.txt” for fun and profit

I recently learnt to my combined irritation and eventual delight that even if your phone numbers are perfectly formatted as E.164 in AD, you still need a rule in “Company_Phone_Number_Normalization_Rules.txt” that (effectively) normalises them – even though they already are. (Read that saga here). But it dawned on me shortly thereafter that if Lync’s filtering …

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Adventures with the Lync Address Book (ABS). Or “When E.164 just isn’t E.164 enough for Lync!”

Down here in the Banana Republic we sometimes fall into traps when localising foreign products (in this context those of Microsoft) to our regional preferences. OCS and Lync are no exception. (I have some vague recollection of being unable to install the first release of OCS on an original Server 2008 machine if you’d dared …

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Lync 2010 Standard Edition & the SQL Management Studio

I’ve never really hit it off with the OCS and Lync Address Book. I don’t know I did, but the ABS took a dislike to me long ago that remains to this day. In the process of chasing some Lync ABS strangeness (like where a contact and their details are present in an “Abserver.exe –dumpfile”, …

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Lync: “The provided credentials are not authorized by the server”

I was recently testing a Lync deployment prior to cutover, and as part of that process I needed to fail the SBA and the Front-End to ensure the users were all correctly re-directed to a SIP Registrar and that the “Limited Functionality … Outage” message displayed. That all worked fine, but I was surprised to …

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