Dustin's Tech Notes

Using System Center Orchestrator (SCO) 2012 to Automate Lync Server 2010 Maintenance

Note: I have not included details on the scripts used for the processes in the post. I will update the post shortly with information about those scripts. Back in the days when I spent a lot of time managing MOM 2005, and SCOM 2007 deployments, I came across a product from a company called Opalis [...]

Goodbye 2011..Hello 2012

Wow… I have to say 2011 was definitely a year of changes and challenges for me. As I reflect back on 2011 I’m both glad to see it go and thankful for most of the experiences. January also marks my one year anniversary living in Dallas, Texas, a move that I’m very glad I made. [...]

I Just Traded In the Best Smart Phone I Have Ever Owned

**Updated Info on 11/28********************************************************************* I’ve been using my HTC Titan for almost a week now. I was a little skeptical on the battery life but HTC has proven me wrong. I’m getting more than 12 – 14 hours of batter with my normal usage (email, text messaging, a few calls, social networking, and an occasional [...]

Microsoft Kinect Turns One Today

As reported by Neowin, Microsoft Kinect celebrates its one year birthday today. To help celebrate Microsoft has released an awesome vision video. Check it out.

Lync Server 2010 Edge Server Deep Dive Presentation by Randy Wintle

Just in case you missed the Edge Server Deep Dive session Randy Wintle presented to UCVUG, it was redelivered to the DFW UC User Group this past week. This time we were able to successfully record the session. Great presentation if you’re interested in learning about the guts of how the Lync Edge server works.

UCVUG is Back!

Just in case you missed it, The Microsoft Unified Communications User Group is back! We’ve cranked up meetings again and have some great stuff planned. If you’d like to join the community check out the website at http://www.ucvug.org. See you there!!

Lync 2010 Application Sharing and Applications Running with Elevated Privileges

I came across the below screen shot when sharing my desktop in a Lync conference the other day. Lync will not allow you to give control of an elevated application to other participants in the session. A nice little security nugget in application sharing. After all do you really want to give someone else control [...]

Lync Server 2010 Certificate Error–Certificate Not Valid

While setting up Lync Server 2010 in one of my labs, I got to the Certificate Wizard step before I realized I had not setup a CA in my domain. I quickly logged onto my DC and installed Active Directory Certificate Services. I then jumped back over to my Lync front end server and kicked [...]

Lync Server 2010 Error – Lost Connection to all Web Conferencing Edge Services

I recently had a customer who continuously saw events with Event IDs 41026 and 41024 logged on their front end server. The description of both of these events stated “Lost Connection to all Web Conferencing Edge Services. I initially tried the resolution steps outlined in Ståle Hansen’s blog post discussing this error. None of these [...]

Ask Your Lync Questions on Talk TechNet–Talk Radio for IT Pros

On June 17th, I’ll be a guest on Talk TechNet, a twice weekly radio show for IT Professionals. Listeners of the show can call in to discuss Lync or ask questions about features, issues, or architecture. For full details check out the Talk TechNet website or the registration page below. Join us on the 17th [...]