One of the more important things to do prior to decommissioning your Lync Server 2010 pool after migrating over to Lync Server 2013 is to move the Central Management Server to the new pool: Documentation on how to do this can be found at the
I was recently asked by a colleague who upgraded an Edge server from Lync Server 2010 to 2013 similar to the way I outlined here: Upgrading Edge server from Lync Server 2010 to Lync Server 2013https://blog.terenceluk.com/2013/01/upgrading-edge-server-from-lync-server.html The upgrade went well but he noticed that depending
I recently wrote a blog post to demonstrate deploying Lync Server 2013’s Edge server: Deploying Lync Server 2013 Edge Serverhttps://blog.terenceluk.com/2013/01/deploying-lync-server-2013-edge-server.html … and received a few emails asking whether I could provide more information about upgrading an existing Edge from Lync Server 2010 to 2013. As
First off, I’ve been asked by a few ex-colleagues about where the Office Web Apps documentation is because it doesn’t look like it’s included in the Lync Server 2013 RTM documents and the answer to this is that the information is actually bundled into the
I recently had to upgrade 2 Lync Server 2013 Edge servers (one on Windows Server 2008 R2 and the other on Windows Server 2012) and since I haven’t written a blog post demonstrating the process, I went ahead to document one of the deployments for
I’ve been recently reminded by an ex-colleague that I have only written a blog post demonstrating the deployment of a Lync Server 2013 Enterprise pool: Deploying Lync Server 2013 Enterprise Pool to coexist with Lync Server 2010 https://blog.terenceluk.com/2012/11/deploying-lync-server-2013-enterprise.html … but not the deployment of a
Problem You attempt to prepare the forest of your Active Directory for Lync Server 2013: … but the step fails with: Prepare Forest Active Directory settings execution failed on an unrecoverable error. ForestPrepareTask execution failed on an unrecoverable error. Reviewing the logs show the following
Recently, I’ve found that I’ve had to remove a lot of Lync Server 2010 Standard servers from existing environments recently as most of my clients prepare for their upgrades to Lync Server 2013 and while I’ve performed this a few times in the past whether
As with one of my previous posts for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 where I documented the permissions for the databases created on the back-end server for a Lync Server 2013 pool: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Pool SQL Database Permissions https://blog.terenceluk.com/2011/01/microsoft-lync-server-2010-enterprise_31.html … this post serves
One of the semi new features I’ve been interested in since Lync Server 2013 was initially announced was the new Persistent Chat Server that replaces the Group Chat server. Those who have worked with the older version of Group Chat would know that the feature
