Lync for all its cleverness has one or two minor, transient shortcomings. There, I’ve said it. One of these is the ambiguity of the message provided to a user when they try to call a number that’s barred by their Voice Policy: “Call was not completed or has ended”.
The NET (nee Quintum) Tenor gateway family has recently seen a functionality injection with the introduction of what they’re calling “108 Routing”. Until now the Tenor has had some limitations in its routing capabilities. One such restriction was that the outbound (IP) destination was either H.323 or SIP – you could never run both in …
Every so often I want to add some new functionality in a live Lync system, and it needs to be tested before it goes live. My normal approach to this is to add routing for a fake country code to get the call to the relevant gateway, then change the number back to something genuine …
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On a recent deployment I found *2* of my 3 UM servers wouldn’t play. I had lots of EventID 1000: Faulting application name: UMworkerprocess.exe, version: 14.1.323.0, time stamp: 0x4dedcdd2 Faulting module name: Microsoft.Rtc.Internal.Media.dll, version: 3.5.6907.206, time stamp: 0x4c2c21fe … and EventID 1038: The Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging service was unable to start. More information: “Microsoft.Exchange.UM.UMService.UMServiceException: …
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Manually keying a large site’s dial plan into Exchange to cater for the various combinations of exchange prefix & extension number is tedious and frankly quite boring. Import-CSV to the rescue! Thankfully these days most customers are loathe to permit Exchange to route a call to anyone other than an internal extension. Those of us …
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If you have multiple Front-End servers, your account will be randomly homed to one of them, and it’s not revealed if you just get-csuser. You need to Get-CsUserPoolInfo <username>. This won’t spell it out for you, but you should be able to figure out which FE is which. Alternatively, Get-CsUserPoolInfo <username> | Select-Object -Expand PrimaryPoolMachinesInPreferredOrder …
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When you’re on a new or unfamiliar customer’s site it’s sometimes a challenge to locate their CA. In the past (assuming a working Lync or OCS installation) I’ve stepped through the “Request, Install or Assign Certificates” stage in setup.exe / Deployment Wizard, purely because it automatically detects the PKI CA (but then won’t let you …
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I recently ran up the Lync client on a HP Compaq L2105tm touch-screen and was surprised by some of the extra functionality that’s snuck in there.
This is SO simple, but *so* well received. Click the photo for a high-res, drool-worthy closeup.
NET’s vxBuilder application has a handy “Recent” list that serves as a directory of your most-visited sites. I recently decided that the growing list of IP addresses needed to go and be replaced by their names. It didn’t take long to find the list – it’s tucked away in the Registry at HKCU\Software\Network Equipment Technologies\SHOUTbuilder\Recent, …