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Problem You’re in the process of deploying Monitoring Reports for Lync Server 2013: … and proceed through the deployment but receive the following error: Cannot grant ReportsReadOnly Role to user “domainaccountName”. For details, see the following error message: Exception calling “Create” with “0” argument(s): “Create

Problem You’ve successfully deployed Lync Server 2013 and began testing features in the Lync 2013 client but quickly noticed that the following options are greyed out: PowerPoint Whiteboard Poll Q & A Solution While there could be various reasons why these options would be greyed

Problem You’ve noticed that users are unable to sign into their Lync Client on their laptops when not in the internal network but the Edge server services are up. Performing a trace and reviewing the snooper logs reveals the following: SIP/2.0 504 Server time-out TL_INFO(TF_PROTOCOL)

Problem You’ve just completed deploying Lync Server 2013 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 server but notice that the Lync Server Management Shell does not load and hangs with a black screen regardless of whether you run it as an administrator or not: Solution This

Problem You’re performing a greenfield deployment of Microsoft Lync Server 2013 and execute the Prepare Current Forest step: … but it fails with the error: Prepare ForestEnable-CSAdForest -Verbose -Confirm:$false -Report “C:Usersa-tlukAppDataLocalTempEnable-CSAdForest-[2014_10_15][11_12_50].html”Creating new log file “C:Usersa-tlukAppDataLocalTempEnable-CSAdForest-085d5b10-3f1a-4136-9af5-b128bdc6a4c9.xml”.Enable the Active Directory forest to host Lync Server 2013 deployments.Prepare

I’ve been ask several times in the past about the options for having Lync Server 2010 or 2013 deployed in a forest then having another forest use the Lync infrastructure.  While there has been plenty of blog posts written about it, I think one of