LyncSCOM bug

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

 

Perf Object Name:

Perf Counter Name: LYSS – Total number of Storage Service EWS Autodiscovery errors.

Perf Counter Value: 186

Error Threshold: 25

Warning Threshold: 1

Consecutive Samples Repeat Count: 2

 

Please see the ‘Product Knowledge’ and the ‘Alert Context’ tab on Alert Properties view for more information.

 

[end of alert description]

These seemed odd because, though I am not at all involved in Exchange, our Exchange guys are sharp and would have caught a misconfigured autodiscover record.

Further, we do not do any archiving so why is a Lync Front End even bothering to check for EWS?

So I checked with my contact at Microsoft and he informed me that this is a bug and we should disable the alert. I don’t know (and don’t care!) if it is a Lync or SCOM error.