Communicator for Mac 2011 Deployment Guide

Features Available:

• Calendar based presence.
• Presence in other Office for Mac applications.
• Outlook Out of office messages in Mac Communicator.
• Invite multiple people to conference.
• Join conf: meetings from an outlook Invite.
• Enterprise Voice supported.
• OCS 2007 R2 support (OCS 2007 RTM is not).

Not available:

• Access Level for Contacts.
• Call forwarding.
• Receiving calls on mobile devices.
• Voicemail access from Mac Communicator.
• Scheduling of conferences in Outlook.
• Desktop sharing.
• No mention of Live Meeting.

I am extremely pleased with the progress the Mac Communicator team has made.

I expect the user experience with Lync to fill in some of the holes above with the Reach client. Finally, the Mac user can join the rest of the Unified Communications fun!

Here is the link to the Mac Communicator Deployment Guide. Enjoy!

Lync 2010 Collocated Mediation Server vs. Dedicated Mediation Server

Learn why we should collocate or not collocate Mediation Servers with Front End Servers in Microsoft Lync Server 2010 via http://www.shudnow.net/2010/10/10/lync-2010-collocated-mediation-server-vs-dedicated-mediation-server/

Publishing Lync Server 2010 Simple URLs and Web Components with Forefront TMG 2010

Good post published by Randy Wintle writing about publishing Lync Server 2010 simple URLs with TMG

http://ucmadeeasy.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/publishing-lync-server-2010-rc-simple-urls-and-web-components-with-forefront-tmg-2010/

PowerShell Script to create new user, enable for Exchange, UM and Lync Server

RANDY WINTLE created this PowerShell as a sample of how to create new user, enable for Exchange, UM and Lync Server.

There are a couple good takeaways from this script, it remotes into Exchange 2010 and Lync Server 2010 PowerShell sessions, so nothing except PowerShell 2.0 is required on the client side, which is standard with Windows 7. It also shows how you can simultaneously use Exchange and Lync PowerShell commands in the same script to get things done.

This was developed specifically for your internal needs; you will probably have to add/remove variables and requirements:

http://cid-389bd51b03b1f8f9.office.live.com/embedicon.aspx/Public/UserSetupScriptGeneric.ps1

Mike Stacy writes “ Side-by-side error when running DHCPUtil.exe with Lync Server 2010”

http://mikestacy.typepad.com/mike-stacys-blog/2010/11/side-by-side-error-when-running-dhcputilexe-with-lync-server-2010.html

In trying to run DHCPUtil.exe from your Windows Server 2008 x64 DHCP server with the appropriate command line parameters in order to configure DHCP for Lync Server, you may run across the following error:

The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.

Reviewing the app log reveals the following:

Solution:  Install vcredist_x64.exe from the Lync Server media and run DHCPUtil.exe again.

Step by Step Lync and Exchange UM Integration

http://blog.schertz.name/2010/11/lync-and-exchange-um-integration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+jschertz+(Jeff+Schertz)

Also in case you faced Integration problems, please check this URL

http://blog.schertz.name/2010/11/lync-calls-to-exchange-auto-attendant-fail/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+jschertz+(Jeff+Schertz)

Using DHCPUtil for Lync Phone Edition DHCP Server Configuration

http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/using-dhcputil-for-lync-phone-edition-dhcp-server-configuration/

Lync 2010 vs OCS 2007 R2 vs OCS 2007 R1 Client Supportability Matrix

If you have been reading Jeff’s Post http://blog.schertz.name/2010/09/lync-client-unsupported-ocs/ then you will know that Lync Client is not supported with OCS, for further details I have prepared this Table to list the supported clients against servers:

How to update Lync Server Configuration from CMS after topology Change

Aifter updating the topology in the topology builder I found that setup instructed me to run the setup again and run the step “setup or Remove Lync Server Components” to update the local server configuration from the CMS.

Looks like I found a way to update the local configuration from the CMS which is using the cmdlet: enable-cscomputer, of course you can use get-cscomputer and pipe it to enable-cscomputer.

This will allow you to rapidly update your servers local configuration if you have large amount of servers.

Upgrade Lync 2010 EVAL to volume license version

To upgrade from the EVAL to the VL version from lync simply follow those steps:

After they secure access to volume bits through a legitimate channel – ie. VL site:

On every machine which has EVAL version of Server.MSI installed:

1. run “msiexec.exe /fvomus server.msi EVALTOFULL=1 /qb (Note: the server.msi is from Volume media)
2. run PS cmdlet “enable-cscomputer”