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Deploying Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Archiving Server

As with my previous post about deploying Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Edge Server, I’ve had these Archiving server deployment screenshots for awhile but never got the chance to put them together so now that I’m on a plane flying off to Charlotte, North Carolina for

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Microsoft Lync Server 2010 outbound calls through Mediation server returns fast busy with: “CONNECTION: Failed to complete outbound connection” and “DIAGNOSTIC: Message was not sent because the connection was closed” in Snooper logs

I received a call from a client the other day that their Lync Server 2010 environment could not place outbound calls to the PSTN network.  While on the phone with the administrator I had him do a few tests for me and it appears that

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Deploying Lync Server 2010 Edge Server

It’s been such a busy month with multiple projects on the go that I’ve only been able to whatever caught my eye on my long list of “to-blogs” so while I had these Edge server deployment screenshots for awhile, I never really got the chance

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Deploying Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Monitoring Server

I recently had to install a Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Monitoring server for an environment and remembered that I haven’t written a blog post outlining the process and since the opportunity was there, I went ahead and took the screenshots.  The installation is pretty straight

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Lync Server 2010 Monitoring role setup components fails with: “Prerequisite not satisfied: Message Queuing Server (MSMQ) and Message Queuing Directory Service Integration must be installed before attempting to install this product. MSMQ must not be in workgroup operation mode.”

I was recently asked to look at a problem someone had running the Setup or Remove Lync Server Components step when setting up a Lync Server 2010 Monitoring server. As the wizard begins to setup the monitoring server components, it would fail when checking the

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Requesting Lync Server 2010 Edge server’s internal certificate throws the error: “A certificate chain processed, but terminated in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800B0109)The certificate was not imported.”

Problem You’re trying to request a certificate from your internal certificate authority but the process fails with: > Request CertificateRequest-CSCertificate -New -Type Internal -CA “venus.someDomain.comYour CA X” -Country CA -State “Ontario” -City “Oakville” -FriendlyName “LyncEdge” -KeySize 2048 -PrivateKeyExportable $True -Organization “Your CA” -OU “IT” -DomainName

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