Friday, January 27, 2012

Specifying Antivirus Scanning Exclusions


Commonly overlooked.........
To ensure that the antivirus scanner does not interfere with the operation of Microsoft Lync Server 2010, you must exclude specific processes and directories for each Lync Server 2010 server or server role on which you run an antivirus scanner. The following processes and directories should be excluded   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg195736.aspx



Thursday, January 26, 2012

TechEd 2011 Lync 2010 Edge PPT

Link to File on Skydrive

Integrating Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Cisco Unified Communications Manager

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26800

This white paper shows step-by-step configuration tasks to set up the Direct SIP connectivity between Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) and Lync Server 2010. These steps include configuration of the media bypass feature that optimizes media flow by allowing Lync endpoints to directly establish a media connection with a gateway or private branch exchange (PBX) without going through the Lync Server Mediation Server.

SQL Server Requirements for Lync 2010

In the process of planning your backend SQL server database’s for Lync Server 2010? If so you will want to read over this PDF. Pay special attention to Group Chat SQL Server requirements; specifically if you want to run it on SQL2008R2 along with other Lync databases. Note that GC is not yet supported on SQL2008R2. There are ways around this limitation such as running the GC database on a down version of SQL such as 2005 SP3.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Issue Moving LCS 2005 Users to OCS 2007 R2 Hosted on 2008 R2 Server


Recently I was migrating from LCS2005 to OCS20007R2 for a client and was receiving errors when trying to move users between the pools. The specific error code was"0xC3F75809 “Cannot move user to pool.” “Either the pool to which the move happens is not running or you have no credentials for the operation. Make sure the server is running and you have appropriate credentials for the operation."
Note that if you’re OCS2007 installation is running on Windows 2008R2 you will need to install SP1. The other option is to make a “DisableLoopbackCheck” registry key.
Follow these steps to do so:
  1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
  3. Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
  4. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
  5. Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
  6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
  7. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart.