In the last article, I talked about how to backup the Lync core configuration and the user data. In this article I am going to describe how to backup the…
If you are upgrading to Lync Server 2013 and you have not rolled out Office 2013 to your clients (or at least the Lync 2013 client), you may run into…
I recently read this blog from Rick Vanover from Veeam. I thought that rather than try to summarize this I would just share it. Very pertinent information for many organizations….
One of the challenges of using security groups for computer account administration is that, like users, computer accounts determine their group membership at logon, which for a computer happens at…
When a customer purchases Cisco products, they wish to spend the least amount to ensure that the product will work for its intended life. They may decline the option of…
Do you need help planning your Microsoft Lync or Exchange deployment? Organizations that have contracted Enterprise Agreements for Microsoft Licensing can be Granted Microsoft Software Assurance benefit vouchers. You get…
In the midst of a migration to Office 365 recently, I needed to re-do some work, which required re-creating some accounts. Deleting accounts is easy enough, but the recreation failed…
Do you have a bunch of shortcuts to applications on your desktop? Is it a slurry of documents and folders? Do you have so many icons it doesn’t even matter…
Going with the idea of what’s new, this one isn’t so new. We’ve had Group Chat since Office Communications Server 2007 R2. In both OCS 2007 R2 and Lync, Group…
While experimenting with Windows Server 2012’s DirectAccess recently, I deleted the Group Policy objects which DirectAccess creates. As you might imagine, this wasn’t the best idea. The result was that…