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Showing real-time SIP trace logging in #Lync

Tommy Clarke — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:39:00 +0000

When you install the debugging tools for Lync Server 2013 this is what you get

And I can honestly say that I never laid an eye on OCSTracer.exe before. and gaaaah do I regret that now.

Anyway. it’s a great little tool that you run from the command line.

.\OCSTracer.exe Trace /Component :S4

And that’s it. you will now se the real time sip traces that touches your server.

MS UC @ TechEd North America 2013 – #Lync #Office365 #Exchange

Tommy Clarke — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:44:00 +0000

To start with, the keynote was great this year, but not a single mention of Lync or Exchange in it, and not so many of Office365 neither. But still a great keynote to get an understanding on what’s coming in the underlying products to what we run our UC platform on.

Lync sessions

Planning and Deploying Your Enterprise Voice

Voice Interoperability Fundamentals

Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Dial Plan and Voice Routing Deep Dive

The Deep Dark Secrets of Unified Messaging

Enterprise Network Requirements for Microsoft Lync Server 2013

Network Design and Deployment Strategies to Ensure Success for Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Enterprise…

Designing for High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Microsoft Lync Server 2013

Planning and Deployment for Edge Server with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

Planning and Deploying Conferencing in Microsoft Lync Server 2013

Mobile Devices Deep Dive with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

Migration and Coexistence with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

Scripting and Automation for Microsoft Lync

Monitoring Microsoft Lync Server 2013: Getting the Most out of Monitoring Service Data

Microsoft System Center Advisor and System Center 2012 – Operations Manager: Better Together

All about Archiving with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

Understanding Compliance in Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Office

Microsoft Lync Hybrid Scenarios

Lap Around the Microsoft Lync 2013 Developer Platform

Deep Dive into New Unified Communications Web API of Lync 2013

Introducing Lync Room System

Exchange Sessions

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Managed Availability

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Client Access Server Role

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability and Site Resilience

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Sizing

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Transport Architecture

Exchange Online Protection

Virtualization in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 On-Premises Upgrade and Coexistence

Team Collaboration with Site Mailboxes

Microsoft Exchange Archiving Policy: Move, Delete, or Hold

The Deep Dark Secrets of Unified Messaging

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Tips & Tricks

Microsoft System Center Advisor and System Center 2012 – Operations Manager: Better Together

Data Loss Prevention in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook 2013

The New Outlook Web App: Designed for Touch and Offline Too!

Office 365 Sessions

A Look Inside Microsoft Office 365

Choosing the Right Cloud Service

Security in Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 Deployment

Microsoft Lync Hybrid Scenarios

Exchange Online Protection

Overview of Microsoft Office 365 Identity Management

Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus Adoption and Change Management

Microsoft Office 365 for Education: Overview and Upgrades

Microsoft Exchange Hybrid Deployment and Migration on Your Terms

Using Windows PowerShell Magic to Manage Microsoft Office 365

Help Small Businesses Seize the Day with Microsoft Office 365

Deploying and Updating Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus with Click-to-Run

Microsoft Exchange in the Cloud: Scared of Losing Your Job?

Internals of Deploying the In-Place Archive: Online, On-Premises, or Hybrid

Microsoft Office 365 Service Communications

Modern Public Folders Overview, Migration and Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 Directory and Access Management with Windows Azure Active Directory

And just some cool other sessions

Understanding Immersive Productivity and Collaboration Experiences with Perceptive Pixel Devices

Back from MCSM and will share the knowledge next week

Tommy Clarke — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:40:00 +0000

Before the MCSM I felt like, hey I’m an MVP, I run my own trainings on Lync and well I felt pretty confident that I know most of these Lync thing pretty well.

Oh was I wrong… anyway, I learned A LOT

And next week I run a LyncLab at labcenter with some seats left.

So if you are in Sweden and got nothing better to do

http://www.labcenter.se/home#lab=Mastering_Lync_Server_2013_-_Experts_

Did you miss a session at #Lync Conference 2013? Hurry up to watch the recordings!

Tommy Clarke — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Or was it hard to choose the best session and did you plan to watch the recordings later like me???

Well you better hurry up since the last day to access the site is April 16, 2013

Attendees can access all session videos and PowerPoint’s through MyLync until April 16, 2013

http://www.lyncconf.com/

#Lync Features Comparison Chart

Tommy Clarke — Fri, 03 May 2013 07:31:47 +0000

If you are in to hosting this might be something for you.

Its a detailed matrix of supported Lync features that comparing Lync Server 2013 with Lync Hoster Pack (V1 & V2) and Lync Online (Office 365).
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38816

Office365 Service health dashboard RSS feed url got changed

Tommy Clarke — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:38:36 +0000

Im building a monitoring solution for one of my customers and noticed that their RSS URL was the same as mine, and I found this a little weird since they are upgraded and I’m not.

Anyway as I researched this I found out that my RSS feed URL has been changed and that my monitoring was pointing at the old one.

NOT so good. So IF you rely on this RSS feed for monitoring of your Office 365 service. make sure that you are using the right one and that it hasn’t been changed without your notice.

#Lync presenter annoyances, I mean crash course in good Lync meeting management

Tommy Clarke — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:27:03 +0000

When in a meeting there are a few things that really annoys me, and those are really easy to fix, but the stress of leading a meeting, presenting and talking at the same time as holding a meeting is not easy and I know I have failed on some of these things to.

But here they are, as well as the remediation

Asking, Do you see my screen? Can you hear me? Can you see me? During the presentation, when its right there in front of your eyes.

As a presenter you can just open the “Participants Window” by clicking on this icon in your Lync meeting –>

By doing that you will see all participants and you will also se what modalities of the meeting they are connected to.

Grey means that they are not connected and don’t see or hear you.
Turquois (not shown in the picture) means that you are presenting
Blue means that they are connected and should be able to see and hear you.

Credits of this tip goes to: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jenstr/archive/2013/04/22/please-let-me-know-when-you-can-see-this.aspx

People talking during the presentation, without realizing that EVERYONE can hear them

Well this one is super simple. Again under the “Participants Window” click it and select Action and then “Mute audience” and when you later open up for questions, unmute the Audience. This will enable to just focus on your presentation and not have to find the one person that has that baby screaming or sitting at a Starbucks near a school at their lunch break.

By the way, if you present a PowerPoint that has a media file in it, when that slide plays, EVERYONE is muted, that means even the presenters, so after that video is done playing, you need to unmute yourself.

Bonus tips, Plug in, be early

And as a bonus, if you are the presenter, be early, like 10-15 minutes early, and plug in your computer, that means a wired connection (if possible) and power.

Also make sure to chose the correct audio/video device and upload your presentation in advance. Create your polls and then sit back close your eyes and relax for the rest of the 5 minutes before you start. If presenting, you should always distress before presenting something and it will feel a lot better.

MCSM: Communication Solutions Master #Lync #MCSM

Tommy Clarke — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:24:57 +0000

In two weeks its time for me to be on the other side in the class room when the MCSM: Communication Solutions Master kicks of.

It will be three weeks of Lync, Lync and Lync. And I will be in Seattle from the 4th to the 26th of may.

I plan to be mostly offline from everything except the training and my family so don’t expect any updates to the blog during this time, also I’m taking a restrictive approach to email where I will only answer emails that are marked important to be able to filter out what’s important from the other email.

To prepare for the masters I’m spending most evenings with reading now and it’s a good timing that this just got released.

Set-CsVoicemailReroutingConfiguration

Tommy Clarke — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:00:00 +0000

I like browsing around in the technet docs and finding new powershell commands that do magic with Lync.

Like this one Set-CsVoicemailReroutingConfiguration

That allows you to modify settings that determine where Auto Attendant and Subscriber Access calls are rerouted to when IP connectivity to an Exchange UM server is lost.

The numbers provided by these settings allow callers to leave voice mail messages for Enterprise Voice users (the AutoAttendantNumber setting) and for those users to retrieve voice mail even if the IP connectivity from the Lync Server deployment at a remote site to Exchange UM in the data center is unavailable (the SubscriberAccessNumber setting).

Microsoft Sweden – monthly Lync Tech Community Call

Tommy Clarke — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:20:22 +0000

Hi all, post is in Swedish since this will be a local monthly community tech call for the Swedish Lync customers and partners.

Microsoft kommer från och med april att hålla ett Lync Tech Community online call en gång i månaden där vi diskuterar olika Lync-relaterade ämnen. Det kommer hållas en kort presentation av ett specifikt område och därefter har vi en Q&A session. Ämnena kommer att variera från att vara av övergripande natur till en mer djupare teknisk karaktär.

Det första tillfället kommer handla om nyheter i Lync 2013 och hålls hålls den 23 april, kl 13.00-14.00.

Vi tar gärna emot förslag på ämnen för kommande tillfällen. Skicka era förslag till Arifur Rahman.

Presentatörer:
Arifur Rahman, Lync Technical Solution Specialist
Tommy Clarke, Lync V-TSP
Peter Möller, Lync V-TSP

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