Lync

One of the new features in Lync 2010 is the ability to provide Lync clients enhanced privacy controls.  What this provides is the ability for Lync users to restrict their presence to users who are in their contact list.  By default, this feature is not enabled.  You may think to yourself, why?  Well, it's because OCS 2007 R2 users can connect to Lync Server 2010 if the Client … [Read more...] about Lync 2010 Enhanced Privacy Controls

General Information I just migrated a OCS 2007 R2 Edge on Windows Server 2008 last night to Lync Edge 2010 Edge on Windows 2008 R2.  All I can say is, it was a less than pleasant experience if you're doing federation.  This is not a native Lync problem per se, but is more due to Windows 2008 R2; of course, this depends on your Outlook.The migration process to migrate an … [Read more...] about Lync 2010 Edge Utilizing Windows Server 2008 R2 Federation TLS Issues

In Lync 2010, you may see some Response Group warnings such as the following:These warnings happen only if you click on the Refresh button for either Workflow, Queue, or Group.Taking a look at the Response Group traces done by using Lync Logger, we can see the following error:System.Management.Automation.CmdletInvocationException: The Application Server … [Read more...] about Lync 2010 Response Group Warnings

Read the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 version of this article here.There are several ways in which we can utilize Audio/Video streams in Lync Server 2010.   If you have read my Office Communications Server 2007 R2 article, you will see the first part of this article will show that the methods in which you restrict ports and the amount of flexibility in Lync Server … [Read more...] about Lync Server 2010 Port Ranges and Audio/Media Negotiation

The Lync 2010 Phone Edition requires the usage of DHCP for a couple reasons.  One of these being the ability to function on a network and the other being the ability to sign-in for newer phones that do not support NTLM but will rather utilize certificate based authentication as well as PIN Authentication. The ability to use DHCP options allowing the Lync 2010 Phone Edition to … [Read more...] about Lync 2010 DHCP for Network Communications and PIN/Certificate Authentication