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To Automate Lync Network Site and Subnet Creation with more than one Lync Network Region, please see my New-CSMultiRegionNetwork.ps1 script here. With Lync Server 2010 and 2013, there are Lync Regions, Lync Sites, and Lync Subnets.  There are three functions in which these can be utilized:Call Admission Control Controlling Media Bypass Behavior Ability to assign a Location … [Read more...] about New-CSSingleRegionNetwork.ps1 – Automate Lync Network Site and Subnet Creation

This article series is to guide you through the entire Lync Server 2013 Persistent Chat deployment process from scratch.  In Part 1, we took a look at preparing the environment for the Persistent Chat Pool.  In Part 2, we'll take a look at the installation process in the Lync 2013 Persistent Chat Pool.  We'll then finish up the article series with Part 3 by taking a look at the … [Read more...] about Lync Server 2013 Release Preview Persistent Chat with Enterprise Pool – Part 3

This article series is to guide you through the entire Lync Server 2013 Persistent Chat deployment process from scratch.  In Part 1, we took a look at preparing the environment for the Persistent Chat Pool.  In Part 2, we'll take a look at the installation process in the Lync 2013 Persistent Chat Pool.  We'll then finish up the article series with Part 3 by taking a look at the … [Read more...] about Lync Server 2013 Release Preview Persistent Chat with Enterprise Pool – Part 2

Now that Lync Server 2013 Release Preview is here, I thought it would be nice to create an article on how to deploy a Persistent Chat (formerly Group Chat) Server while connected to a SQL 2012 Backend Server.This article series is to guide you through the entire Lync Server 2013 Persistent Chat deployment process from scratch.  In Part 1, we'll take a look at preparing the … [Read more...] about Lync Server 2013 Release Preview Persistent Chat with Enterprise Pool – Part 1

Introduction Welcome to Part 3 of this article series. In Part 1, we started off by discussing the goal of this lab. That goal is to wrap all the information out there on how to utilize Central Site Resilience in regards to failovers, fallbacks, how redirects function, how SRV records fit in, etc... We first discussed what the lab setup is going to be using Hyper-V, and then … [Read more...] about Lync 2010 Central Site Resilience w/ Backup Registrars, Failovers, and Failbacks – Part 3