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The August update for Lync Server 2013 , Cumulative Update KB 2809243. There seems to be some long awaited fixes.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36820

After I install i new Lync 2013 solution I’m always so keen to start testing. One of the first things I do is to start Lync 2013 on my Windows Phone. As soon as I see the error Message “Please install Lync 2010 …” I know that I have forgotten to install the Lync Server 2013 CU…

How do I check and enable Lync UCS?

First of all you need Exchange 2013 , then make sure you have enabled UCS in Lync server. By running get-csuserservicesPolicy and verify it has been set to UCSAllowed=TRUE

Next check you client policy. Get-CsClientPolicy should show you “EnableExchangeContactSync = true” for the policy assigned to your user.

If you run the latest rollup for Lync server 2013 you get the ability to run Debug-CsUnifiedContactStore to check the UCS status of you Lync server installation. PS: This commandlet did not exist in Lync server 2013 RTM , I’am running cumulative update from January 8th.

You can even test UCS for a specific  user. In this example the test user has never logged on the Outlook Account.

You would get result like “Disabled” if “EnableExchangeContactSync” is false. If EECS is true you could get : Ready to Migrate or Migrated, enabled.

This can be validated in the Lync Client. Hold down CTRL and right click on the Lync icon in the statusbar – Select Configuration Information.

Look for “Contact List Provider”. If it is UCS you are done. If it is “Lync Server” – Close exit Your Lync Client and restart it.

When you try to get all properties of an ActiveDirectory Object using PowerShell you get an error.

You would typically run some command like:

Get-ADUser -Identity someone -Properties *   . This will return an unexpected error.

Get-ADUser : One or more properties are invalid.
Parameter name: msDS-AssignedAuthNPolicy
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-ADUser pilot1 -Properties *
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (pilot1:ADUser) [Get-ADUser], ArgumentException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ActiveDirectoryCmdlet:System.ArgumentException,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADUser 

The workaround is to pipe AD Object to GET- ADObject like this:

Get-ADUser – identity someone | Get-ADObject -Properties *

This is probably a  bug in Windows 2012R2 and Windows 8.1

Had problem with som Lync Phones (Polycom CX600). That suddenly stop signing in. Did a reset to factory deafult and the issues remained. Solution was to login with extension and pin and then connect the phone to PC using USB and login. Now I was able to login the phone using Lync client. This procedure was repeated on several phones. It seems to me that a factory default does not completely remove all old settings.  

To list members of a Exchange Dynamic Group you have to run a few simple PowerShell commands.

$dgr=Get-DynamicDistributionGroup “GroupNAme”
Get-Recipient -RecipientPreviewFilter $dgr.RecipientFilter

I have finally taken the time to Upgrade BE to Version 2.9. I can see great improvements, well worth the effort

Seen this error? Check out my way to solve it :https://www.vatland.no/page/Hyper-V-VM-startup-error-Evnet-ID-12030.aspx

Error starting Hyper-V VM :

I decieded to delete the VHDX file of a Virtual machine and create a new. The purpose was to do a reinstall, and keep the old file incase I needed som files.

After creating the new VHDX file I tried to start the virtual machine and I got this error.

Event ID 12030 : Failed to start.

 This is no known user to me.

The Hyper-V console gives a descriptive error :

 Permission denied.

The only thing that have changed was the creation of a new vhdx file, so I checked the permissions of the VHDX file.

 This is the default permission for files in this folder.

Added the user acccount I saw in the eventviewer. This user account have the same username as the Virtual-Machine ID.

 I used ICACLS to add the permissions.

icacls “V:\vms\Virtual Hard Disks\2012web.vhdx” /grant “NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\18020765-68E5-4082-9439-F39BB26CB4C7:(r,w)”

 Permissions after I added the entry.

Hyper-V creates a local user for each Virtual-Machine as a Security precausion.

Have a user logged in on his Lync 2013 mobile client . The use is member of a Respnsegroup. When the someone call this responsegroup Lync mobile client is unable to establish a connection.

 I have found several others that also have this problem, and it seem that this is by design – not supported. According to Technet : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398674.aspx

Clients that are supported :

• Lync 2013
• Lync 2010
• Lync 2010 Attendant
• Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant
• Lync Phone Edition

Using a group to assign permissions to a mailbox does not work. Assigning individual users work.

It seems like the Exchange server does not have permission to read Group memebers.

If you assign the group “Exchange Servers” permission on the affected group to “Read Members” it works.

After upgrading from Exchange 2010 sp2 to Exchange 2010 sp3 Outlook Anywhere stopped working.

Solution is to replace a corrupt web.config in the RpcProxy Virtual Directory.

https://www.vatland.no/page/Exchange-2010-SP3-RpcProxy-webconfig-OutlookAnywhere.aspx

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After doing an Upgrade of Exchange 2010 SP2 to SP3 the RpcProxy/ Outlook Anywhere stopped working.

Eventlog on Exchange server showed lots of:

Event ID 1310

Application information:

Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/Rpc-18-130144692505559065

Trust level: Full

Application Virtual Path: /Rpc

Application Path: C:\Windows\System32\RpcProxy\

Machine name: MS-NO-SVG-01

Process information:

Process ID: 7156

Process name: w3wp.exe

Account name: IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool

Exception information:

Exception type: ConfigurationErrorsException

Exception message: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Exchange.RpcClientAccess.Coexistence, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

After some research I found out that the RPCProxy webconfig file was strange/corrupted .

All Path’s in the file was incorrect: (snipp from c:\windows\system32\rpcproxy\web.config)

 <codeBase version=”14.0.0.0″ href=”file:///%ExchangeInstallDir%bin\Microsoft.Exchange.RpcClientAccess.Coexistence.dll” />

The correct should be:

<codeBase version=”14.0.0.0″ href=”file:///C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\bin\Microsoft.Exchange.RpcClientAccess.Coexistence.dll” />

Attached a file from a working server:

web-config.txt (67.89 kb)