Lync

General Information When you're first installing Lync Server 2010, there's some confusion out there as to why you would or wouldn't choose the option, "Deploy First Standard Edition Server" option.  Every Lync 2010 Server in your deployment will hold a copy of your Lync Server 2010's topology configuration called the Central Management Store (CMS).  These copies are located in … [Read more...] about Lync 2010 – Deploy First Standard Edition Server Option?

During the installation of a Lync Server 2010 Monitoring Server, one of the provided steps is to deploy your Lync Server 2010 Monitoring Server Reports to a SQL Server Reporting Services URL.  Afterwards, you can specify a Read-Only Group that you want to grant read-only access to the Monitoring reports.  This Read-Only Group is an optional step if you are the only … [Read more...] about Lync Server 2010 Monitoring Server Reports Read-Only Group

The Issue and the Troubleshooting that Ensued I recently encountered the following issue when a remote user were to try to upload a PowerPoint Presentation while internal users had no problems.Immediately, I thought that this was an issue with the reverse proxy.  For those that don't know what the role of a reverse proxy server is in Lync Server 2010, the Reverse Proxy … [Read more...] about Lync Server 2010 – Cannot Connect to Sharing Server

I recently had a project where all DHCP Servers were Cisco switches.  During the configuration, we noticed that a certain DHCP Configuration worked on certain Cisco switches but not the rest but a configuration was found that worked on all switches.  More on the specifics in the VLAN section below.  In this article, I will show you how to figure out how to configure the 120 and … [Read more...] about Configuring Lync DHCP using Cisco DHCP Servers (VLAN and PIN Auth)

General Information With Lync 2010, there are a couple ways to handle non-DID users.  Our company uses both Lync 2010 for Enterprise Voice as well as Nortel CS1000 for other users.  Our Nortel CS1000 is configured so when you send it  improperly formatted Caller ID, it will send it out to the PSTN with the main DID number of our officelocation.  In Lync 2010, you can have … [Read more...] about Lync 2010 Enterprise Voice DID vs Non-DID Users