May 05
About 2 years ago I released the Lync News app for Windows Phone. Today that app has been retired and replaced with “flinchböt on UC“, an app which covers Lync as well as Exchange and has a fairly terrible name (I was in a hurry and didn’t give the name any thought.). The new app is …
May 01
A few weeks ago I wrote a post basically saying that the Lync Stress Tool was worthless. In it I said you should really monitor the progress of your Lync deployment using Performance Monitor. I also pointed to the Key Health Indicators that Microsoft recommends you use to monitor your Lync installs. Heck, they even …
Apr 24
One of my peers had a Lync 2013 pool-failover scenario. Just about everything worked right except that apparently the Lync Backup Service had been getting hung up and not completing its replication cycles. They opened a case with Microsoft and one of the issues discovered was that Lync Backup Service was hanging on users whose SIP …
Mar 26
We built our OWAS farms and, like most Lync people, had no clue what we were doing. But they ended up working anyway so hooray for us. Now that we are begrudgingly learning a little about it we have learned that we should disable HTTP on the pools and run with HTTPS only. So we …
Mar 26
We built our OWAS farms and, like most Lync people, had no clue what we were doing. But they ended up working anyway so hooray for us. Now that we are begrudgingly learning a little about it we have learned that we should disable HTTP on the pools and run with HTTPS only. So we …
Mar 04
Just a quick note. We have recently been receiving a lot of SCOM alerts like the following in our Lync 2013 environment: Resolution State: New Alert Name: [LYNC] Total number of Storage Service EWS Autodiscovery errors. Source: LS Storage Service Component [lync203-1.flinchbot.com] Path: lync203-1.flinchbot.com Last modified by: System Last modified time: 3/4/2014 3:48:54 PM …
Mar 04
Just a quick note. We have recently been receiving a lot of SCOM alerts like the following in our Lync 2013 environment: Resolution State: New Alert Name: [LYNC] Total number of Storage Service EWS Autodiscovery errors. Source: LS Storage Service Component [lync203-1.flinchbot.com] Path: lync203-1.flinchbot.com Last modified by: System Last modified time: 3/4/2014 3:48:54 PM …
Feb 28
How’s that for the title of a blog article! Apparently I’ve been reading too much Huffington Post or something. For the record, I never read that website. I have standards, as low as they may be. So back to the title and the point of this post. Are there actually hidden log files that could …
Feb 24
Microsoft should have been embarrassed that they publicly claimed support for virtualizing Lync 2013 but were incapable of providing guidance…until last week when they finally released their 14-months overdue white paper. Why can’t school be like the real-world? If I could re-write my papers (aka – release them way late) that I wrote in college …
Feb 24
There has been a lot of chatter lately about the Lync 2013 Stress tool particularly since Microsoft just released a new guide about this tool. The guide is very useful as figuring out the tool on your own is….challenging. In short, the tool works by simulating a heavy load of traffic against your Lync environment. If …
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