Skype integration with Lync has been teased since the first public beta preview of Lync 2013 in July 2012. Microsoft mentioned it in Lync 2013 Preview TechNet documentation (no longer available) and in a blog post by the Lync team…
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Office Web Apps Server – just say no to Windows Update Automatic Updates
Office Web Apps Server 2013 is a standalone Microsoft product that is leveraged by Lync 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013 for web based document viewing and editing using the WOPI (Web app Open Platform Interface) protocol. Office Web Apps…
Outlook Anywhere NTLM SSO with UAG 2010 KCD
Outlook Anywhere can be configured with two authentication methods – Basic and NTLM. Outlook Anywhere NTLM authentication has always been a bit of a tricky beast when using a pre-authenticating reverse proxy like TMG or UAG. The benefit it can…
UAG 2010 – Problems with Custom Trunk Ports and Failing Redirects
UAG 2010 prior to Service Pack 1 Update 1 did not support publishing trunks on custom ports – only 80 and 443 were supported. That meant each UAG trunk required a separate IP address per trunk. With SP 1 Update…
Publish Lync 2013 Including Mobility and Office Web Apps with UAG 2010
Microsoft Forefront TMG (Threat Management Gateway) has been the primary way Lync Web Services have been published in the past. With the untimely demise of TMG, the only Microsoft product (other than IIS) with reverse proxy functionality is Microsoft Forefront…
Lync 2013 Persistent Chat Migration from OCS 2007 R2 Group Chat
One of the big changes in Lync 2013 was merging the Lync client and Group Chat (now called Persistent Chat) into a single client. The back end of Persistent Chat is also now an integrated component or role compared to…
Quality of Service (QoS) for Lync 2010 and Lync 2013
Microsoft have published a lot of documentation about Quality of Service (QoS) with Lync. There is the Word document Enabling Quality of Service with Microsoft Lync Server 2010, TechNet for QoS on Lync 2010 and TechNet for QoS on Lync…
Windows Azure Virtual Machine Domain Provisioning with PowerShell
Windows Azure Virtual Machines preview allows persistent Virtual Machines which retain the same private addresses on reboot. This means that Active Directory can easily run in Azure without worry of the Domain Controller IP changing. This also means that Virtual…
Windows Azure Virtual Network VPN with TMG 2010
Microsoft announced Windows Azure Virtual Network and Windows Azure Virtual Machines in June 2012 to provide IaaS ‘Hybrid Cloud’ functionality. What this allows is persistent Virtual Machines (which retain the same private addresses) running in Azure that can be joined…
