Hi all I don’t get to see the Lync 2013 VDI Plugin in action too much and so I thought I would try and work out how to lab it up, to get a better understanding of how it works. The good news is that it is a lot easier than I expected. In my…
Tag: Skype for Business 2015
Skype for Business Management Shell: The string is missing the terminator
Hi All if you see the error “The string is missing the terminator: ‘. + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException” when running Skype for Business 2015 Management Shell for Powershell, it is due to an error with the Target for the shortcut added when installing Skype for Business 2015. There is a limit in…
Your Skype Powershell Cheat Sheet: Useful Powershell commands you can run in Skype for Business 2015 and Lync Server 2013
Hi All I am a passionate Powershell and command line junky. I think that started with my first job which was Unix based and so I had to learn quickly the art of the commandline. Ever since then, I have tried hard to live by the mantra that “Real Men Don’t click” :). While that…
Simplifying creation of Office Web App 2013 Farm Certificates
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…
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…
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…