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?
Exchange 2007 UM to Exchange 2010 UM Partial Upgrades and Redirects
General Information There's two ways to migrate to Exchange 2010 UM:Full Upgrade Partial UpgradeIn a Full Upgrade scenario, you are doing a big bang migration for your Exchange 2007 UM users and moving them all to Exchange 2010 UM at the same time. At the same time, you are replacing your Exchange 2007 UM Servers within your UM Dial Plan with Exchange 2010 UM … [Read more...] about Exchange 2007 UM to Exchange 2010 UM Partial Upgrades and Redirects
Lync Server 2010 Monitoring Server Reports Read-Only Group
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
Lync Server 2010 – Cannot Connect to Sharing Server
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
Configuring Lync DHCP using Cisco DHCP Servers (VLAN and PIN Auth)
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)
