Lync sessions from Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) 2013 now online

05/02/201328/02/2015Ståle Hansen 3 Comments

262088_196758450372054_3536971_n 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. Continue reading →

Cannot complete the transfer in Lync Server 2013

09/01/201327/01/2013Ståle Hansen 10 Comments

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. Continue reading →

Lync Server 2013: Unable to publish Topology, trouble with trusted servers

02/01/201327/01/2013Ståle Hansen 5 Comments

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
A quick search lead me to this forum post
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/da-DK/lyncserverpreview/thread/db991b8b-bda0-453a-b2cc-fefda484835b
Their scenario involved a Lync 2010 pool as well, but there it was rehomed on the Lync 2013 server and the 2010 pool had been removed
The solution in the forum post resolved the issue for me as well Continue reading →

Lync 2013 Select Primary Device available to PC-to-PC enabled users

18/12/201227/01/2013Ståle Hansen 4 Comments

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. Continue reading →

Recommendation: Profiles for Lync v2 for Lync 2010 and 2013

14/10/201209/02/2015Ståle Hansen 2 Comments

A feature not present in the Lync client is the ability to sign in with different accounts. In the native Lync client you can only be signed in with only one identity and there is no easy way to switch identities. As a consultant I implement Lync for a lot of different customers and I need to sing in as them to test features. You probably experience that scenario if you are a Lync administrator as well, testing different settings for different types of users. For Lync 2010 there was a tool developed by Greig Continue reading →

Lync Server 2013 Preview features and how to configure them

01/08/201227/01/2013Ståle Hansen 4 Comments

Now as the Lync Server 2013 preview is here the community is exploding with information on features and how to configure them. In this blog post I will try to collect the posts and information I come accross. Keep in mind that all of these posts are based on the preview version so the information may be subject to change.

Last updated: 20.08.12

The UCArchitechts podcast

Lync Server 2013 Preview Special Episode: http://www.theucarchitects.com/929 Continue reading →

Lync Server Mobility Troubleshooting Tips

23/12/201127/01/2013Ståle Hansen 21 Comments

The Lync Mobility service and the Lync Clients was released 13.12.2011. Since then as we get more hands-on with the service there are in some cases trouble getting the it up and running. This post is dedicated to how you can test and troubleshoot the mobility service deployment. I will update this post when I find more information on how to troubleshoot and how to solve certain scenarios.

Last updated: 14.10.2012 Continue reading →

Lync Server 2010 Troubleshooting Tips

15/04/201127/01/2013Ståle Hansen 12 Comments

Last updated: 24.10.2012

When deploying Lync Server 2010 you will most likely come across a lot of strange behaviour and stuff that don’t work as expected due to configuration errors or environmental issues. I will in this post try to collect the solutions and articles I find and update along the way, to have troubleshooting tips in one place. Please let me know if any good blog posts or articles that solve some specific problems is not listed here.

General Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Lync may be a daunting task since there is a lot of elements that is involved in a deployment. Over the years troubleshooting OCS and Lync I have found a routine for eliminating problems. If you have deployed Lync Server and there is connectivity issues or some features not working I usually go about it in the following order: Continue reading →