Hi All I wrote a blog a while back on deploying an Office Web App Farm for Lync Server 2013. It has got quite a few hits over the past 12 months and so is obviously a topic that a lot are interested in. I’ll be honest, I did a lousy job with the certificate…
Year: 2015
Powershell script to change the InstanceSize for a bunch of Azure Virtual Machines
Hi All Lately I have been living the Azure dream, madly trying to build every possible Skype and Lync environment my customers have because I can, and because it is fun. However, you like me and you don’t keep an eye on the utilisation it is very easily to get carried away and have way…
Configuring Skype for Business Websites IIS Log Directory on a range of Front End Servers
Hi All I often help out customers performing builds of a number of Skype Servers and so I often find myself trying to configure things for a bunch of servers with Powershell. One of my recent activities was to try and automate the configuration of the IIS Log Directory for the two Skype IIS Websites….
Issue deploying Skype/Lync Reports when mirroring SQL – Cannot grant ReportsReadOnlyRole to user
Hi All I hit an issue recently deploying Skype reports into a SQL Server backend store that was mirrored. The error you get occurs when you go to deploy reports via the “Deploy Monitoring Reports” in the Skype Deployment Wizard, and the error that is presented is “Cannot grant ReportsReadOnlyRole to user….”. This error…
SHA512 certificates preventing RTCSRV from starting
Hi All just a quick note about SHA512 certificates and their effect on Lync Server 2013 and Skype for Business 2015. If your Certificate Authority issues certificate with a SHA512 signature hash algorithm (which is where a lot of organisations are now moving to *from sha1*), there is a problem with using these certificates on…
Installing Skype for Business 2015 Administrative Tools
Hi All I wanted to script up the installation of Skype for Business Administration Tools on a remote administration server so I could make it repeatable, and see if it works the same way as Lync 2013, so I thought I’d share. It’s a little more than running admintools.msi, not much more though; there are…
Installing Lync Server 2013 Administrative Tools using command line
Hi All I recently needed to script up the installation of Lync Server 2013 Administration Tools on a remote administration server so I could make it repeatable, and so I thought I’d share. Unfortunately it is not simply just running the admintools.msi. It’s not much more, but there are a few pre-reqs you need to…
AGPM Version Numbers
With a new release of Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) on its way, there might be some of you trying to work out what you’ve got. Since it took me a while to track down, I’ve created a handy reference: AGPM 4.0 SP3 (4.3.160.0) (Latest) Included in: MDOP 2015 AGPM 4.0 SP2 (4.2.22.0) Included in:…
Creating Lync DNS records with Server 2012 R2 DNS Cmdlets
Hi Everyone I have been playing with Skype and Lync in Azure of late for my own personal labs (this is not supported for Production!). As I have been creating quite a few Lync/Skype environments I thought it would be cool to automated DNS record setup. I started playing with dnscmd.exe but then realized there…
Error deploying a Azure Virtual Machine with 2 NICs – Secondary network interface is supported only for deployments on virtual network
Hi all I have been playing around a lot with Azure lately as I am trying to make the move to cloud based Lync/Skype Labs. Before we go any further, Lync and Skype at this point in time are not supported in Azure! I have been trying to get a virtual machine with 2 NICs…