UAG 2010 – Problems with Custom Trunk Ports and Failing Redirects

10th of May, 2013 / / 1 Comment

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 we could publish UAG trunks on custom ports on a single IP address, although it doesn’t seem many people actually did this. For a customer recently where UAG 2010 was required with 5 trunks, there was an existing network architecture restriction that required the UAG servers to use public IP addresses.… [Keep reading] “UAG 2010 – Problems with Custom Trunk Ports and Failing Redirects”

Publish Lync 2013 Including Mobility and Office Web Apps with UAG 2010

6th of May, 2013 / / 11 Comments

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 UAG (Unified Access Gateway). TMG will continue to be supported until 2015 for mainstream support and 2020 for extended support. If TMG is not already installed however, technically it cannot be used for a new installation.… [Keep reading] “Publish Lync 2013 Including Mobility and Office Web Apps with UAG 2010”

Lync 2013 Persistent Chat Migration from OCS 2007 R2 Group Chat

6th of January, 2013 / / No Comments

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 the bolted on third party feeling of Group Chat. I hadn’t seen any companies deploy and use Group Chat until my last project which was to migrate all OCS 2007 R2 workloads to Lync 2013, including Group Chat.… [Keep reading] “Lync 2013 Persistent Chat Migration from OCS 2007 R2 Group Chat”

Quality of Service (QoS) for Lync 2010 and Lync 2013

31st of October, 2012 / / 15 Comments

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 2013. From what I can see there are no QoS specific changes between Lync 2010 and Lync 2013, other than the documentation seems to have been improved – especially for the client QoS section.… [Keep reading] “Quality of Service (QoS) for Lync 2010 and Lync 2013”

Windows Azure Virtual Machine Domain Provisioning with PowerShell

27th of July, 2012 / / 5 Comments

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 Machines running in Azure that can be joined to your on-premise Active Directory using a site-to-site IPsec VPN. The Azure VMs then act like a branch network with full connectivity. I covered setting up TMG 2010 as a VPN endpoint (instead of using Cisco or Juniper hardware devices) for Windows Azure Virtual Network in a previous post.… [Keep reading] “Windows Azure Virtual Machine Domain Provisioning with PowerShell”

Windows Azure Virtual Network VPN with TMG 2010

25th of July, 2012 / / 25 Comments

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 to your on-premise Active Directory using a site-to-site IPsec VPN. The Azure VMs then act like a branch network with full connectivity and you can add Domain Controllers in the Azure Virtual Network.

This is still a preview release and Microsoft currently only support specific Cisco and Juniper devices that have been tested.… [Keep reading] “Windows Azure Virtual Network VPN with TMG 2010”