Here’s a cute bug in Lync – evident in CU2. When you create a new Dial Plan, the Lync Control Panel creates a “simple name” from your original name. This Simple Name has invalid characters like spaces removed and replaced with underscores.
I’ve noticed a few of my Lync installations are intermittently having problems generating an Address Book, reporting Event ID 21022 on the Front-End.
I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time chasing bugs that *always* turn out to be certificate-related.
It’s been a while coming, but it’s here now (as of today – May 11th, 2011):
Back in OCS/R2, deploying updates to your clients was a manual process. It usually worked but was not without its challenges (generally permissions-based). You plonked the Update.msp on the SE server or file share (buried somewhere like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2\Web Components\AutoUpdate\Files\OC\x32\fre\1033 or similar), then went to <pool>\ Filtering Tools \ Client …
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I have a couple of Polycom CX600s living in common areas. Each is logged-in permanently as a (dummy) user and not tethered to a PC. They’re effectively serving as common-area phones, but setup as real users. I’ve updated my Lync to the CU1 and CU2 updates to the phones (.107 and .250 respectively) as per …
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This one took me a little by surprise recently. I was working with a HP SBA/SBM for Lync, equipped with FXS and FXO ports. I’d setup the Trunk Configuration for outgoing FXO calls to strip the Country Code and insert a 0 (as is pretty standard in Oz), and once that was working OK I …
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Here’s a good one. I was on-site with a customer recently and we decided to implement CAC in an effort to resolve some voice quality issues between the remote Branch and the Central Site. Before starting work I edited all of the Voice Policies and checked the bandwidth policy override…
I fell into a couple of traps with CAC recently and I thought I should post them… First off, CAC won’t work if you have an R2 Edge in your Topology. Period. Do not pass Go…
ABSConfig is a tool included in the OCS and Lync "Resource Kit” (Reskit) that lets you tweak the behaviour of the Address Book generator. It’s changed a little in Lync presumably because some of the ABS config is now handled by shell commandlets. The 7577.0 release however contains a few bugs/inconsistencies.