I am a big fan of active monitoring of Lync Server through System Center Operations Manager. In january I did a talk on this topic at the Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) 2013 with an extensive demo. May 2013 I got the honour of publishing an article on this topic at the official Microsoft blog, NextHop. It is ranked in the top 1% most visited Microsoft blogs so there is a lot of activity there.
Having worked on a couple of Enterprise Voice deployments since the launch of Lync Server 2013 I am still missing a feature that I honestly thought would be incorporated in to Lync by now. It is the ability to find unused available numbers in a given number range assigned to the Lync Server based on Unassigned Numbers. I even hoped it would be possible to assign a teluri to users through a drop down list in the Silverlight GUI since the information is available in the server. I hope this will be available in a future Cumulative Update.
This is almost how I wrote it back in january 2011 when I created the List-UnusedNumber.ps1 script. This is still true and I have therefore revitalized the old script and upgraded it and tested it on Lync 2013. The original script was also featured on the Lync PowerShell blog, which was a huge thing for me. Read the rest of this entry »
Today I received the Microsoft MVP Award for my contributions in the Lync Community. This is the Third time I have received this award, the first time was in 2011. This is huge and it is really inspiring to get recognition for my contributions. Here’s an excerpt from the email I got:
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2013 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Lync technical communities during the past year.
I feel very honored to be part of this outstanding community and I want to mention the MVP Summit as a highlight of the experience. With all the cool things happening around Lync, Office and Windows 8 I look forward to contribute to the community the coming year as well.
See this cool video about being an MVP created for the 2013 20 year anniversary
On 25th of march I was part of the MVP monday blog series where MVPs from all the products get picked to write an article from their product field. I decided to write about Calling number translation rules in Lync Server 2013. To my surprise the article was chosen to be published over at the Microsoft Press blog as well as part of their ongoing series. This is so cool and I am honoured to be part of the group of authors at these two blogs.
At a customer site there was a Lync Server 2010 that had been running for about a year. This solution was now going to be expanded with a collocated mediation server over a dedicated PSTN network card. The mediation server deployed fine and I added routes and tested connection with the SIP trunk provider over telnet, TCP 5060 and it seemed fine. Read the rest of this entry »
A collection of important downloads, documentation and whitepapers for Lync Server 2013, will be updated continuously. Let me know if I have missed something important. I also recommend listening to The UC Architects podcast where we will discuss tools, features and news regarding Lync and Exchange Last updated 15.05.13
January 24th 2013 I had the honour to speak at the Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) in Oslo. There where 30 speakers and 24 of them where MVP’s presenting on topics like Windows Server, Virtualization and Cloud, System Management, Unified Communications and Windows Client. There was a lot of great speakers this year as last time like Jeffrey Snover, Scott Schnoll, Johan Arwidmark, Justin Morris and Martin Lidholm to name a few. See a screen of all the speakers. Of the sessions I managed to attend I would really recommend watching the video of Jeffrey Snover’s PowerShell CrashCourse.
This year it was six Lync 2013 sessions and all of them in one day. So you could spend the whole first day with Lync which was great. I had two talks shared below Read the rest of this entry »
Recently I had a standard Lync call forwarding issue at a new SIP trunk deployment. The problem was that I could not forward any calls to my cellphone, use call forwaring or simring. This was a Lync 2013 deployment, but making sure that EnableSipRefer is set to $False still applies in 2013. And usually fixes this issue by using this PowerShell Cmdlet: Set-CsTrunkConfiguration -EnableReferSupport $False. After running the cmdlet it usually just works and to be sure I logged the client out and in. So if you have the same issue try this first.
This time though it did not work, even when stopping and starting the Lync services. I had to troubleshoot more. Read the rest of this entry »
When publishing the topology from the Lync 2013 topology builder you may experience the following error message and the operation will fail:
Error: A trusted server with the type “” and the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) “” was found for a different Transport Layer Security (TLS) target
In my scenario nothing had changed in the topology regarding the trusted server it was referring to, but the trusted server was homed on a Lync 2010 pool
In Lync 2010 when enabling users for “Enterprise Voice” you would get the Audio Selection Menu which helped you select your primary device at any time. This was an important menu since it would let you know what was your active device at any given time and was a huge improvement over the Communicator 2007 R2 clients. Originally it was intended that this menu was going to be enabled for users enabled for “PC-to-PC only” as well, but it ended up being a bug that became a feature. Read the rest of this entry »
I am a big fan of active monitoring of Lync Server through System Center Operations Manager. In january I did a talk on this topic at the Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) 2013 with an extensive demo. May 2013 I got the honour of publishing an article on this topic at the official Microsoft blog, NextHop. It is ranked in the top 1% most visited Microsoft blogs so there is a lot of activity there.
January 24th 2013 I had the honour to speak at the 
