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...

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...

On June 17th, I’ll be a guest on Talk TechNet, a twice weekly radio show for IT Professionals.  Listeners of the show can call in to discuss Lync or ask questions about features, issues, or architecture.  For full details check out the Talk TechNet website or the registration page below. Join us on the 17th for some fun discussions on Lync.   Talk TechNet – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/gg558001 Event Site and...