Note: I have not included details on the scripts used for the processes in the post. I will update the post shortly with information about those scripts. Back in the days when I spent a lot of time managing MOM 2005, and SCOM 2007 deployments, I came across a product from a company called Opalis that focused on data center automation. I found this product to be a very powerful addition to any Microsoft environment as it allowed normal every...

Just in case you missed the Edge Server Deep Dive session Randy Wintle presented to UCVUG, it was redelivered to the DFW UC User Group this past week. This time we were able to successfully record the session. Great presentation if you’re interested in learning about the guts of how the Lync Edge server...

Just in case you missed it, The Microsoft Unified Communications User Group is back! We’ve cranked up meetings again and have some great stuff planned. If you’d like to join the community check out the website at http://www.ucvug.org.  See you there!!

I came across the below screen shot when sharing my desktop in a Lync conference the other day. Lync will not allow you to give control of an elevated application to other participants in the session. A nice little security nugget in application sharing. After all do you really want to give someone else control of an elevated application running on your...

While setting up Lync Server 2010 in one of my labs, I got to the Certificate Wizard step before I realized I had not setup a CA in my domain. I quickly logged onto my DC and installed Active Directory Certificate Services. I then jumped back over to my Lync front end server and kicked off the Certificate Wizard. I successfully requested a certificate from the new CA, however I received the message “The certificate has been issued by the...

I recently had a customer who continuously saw events with Event IDs 41026 and 41024 logged on their front end server.  The description of both of these events stated “Lost Connection to all Web Conferencing Edge Services. I initially tried the resolution steps outlined in Ståle Hansen’s blog post discussing this error. None of these seemed to work. I resorted to looking at trace logs and found the error “Certificate did not...