Akshat's Blog
Making sense of Schannel Event ID 36882
If you have ever looked at Events logs of a fairly busy Lync or Office Communications Edge server in...
Date: 03/19/2013
Distribution Group Expansion failures
A customer reported that they were unable to expand Distribution Groups using Communicator 2007 R2...
Date: 03/15/2013
Abserver -syncNow fails
I ran into an issue in my lab where I was unable to run abserver -regenur manually using...
Date: 03/15/2013
Modifying msRTCSIP-UserPolicies causes logon failures. Event 41009
I want to document an issue I came across in hopes that it will save someone some pain. When...
Date: 03/15/2013
Lync Server 2013 Pre-requisites
I have been building labs for Lync Server 2013 and needed to quickly install the pre-requisites for...
Date: 01/30/2013
Lync Server 2013 (Preview) : Getting my (your) feet wet
Tell me, I’ll forget Show me, I’ll remember Involve me, I’ll understand This is a...
Date: 07/17/2012
Links for learning Lync
A lot of people have asked me if I had some links/resources so that they can learn and understand...
Date: 07/15/2012
Unable to Scorch a Lync Install
We had a need to uninstall and re-install Lync components from a Standard Edition Lync server and to...
Date: 02/19/2012
Lync 2010 Release Version Numbers and Corresponding Patches
This blog entry is no longer updated, please see the Next Hop blog entry for updates released by...
Date: 07/27/2011
Automatically enable users in a particular OU for Lync 2010
In Lync 2010 we now have to use either the Lync Server Management Shell or the web-based Lync...
Date: 07/26/2011
Error enabling users in sub-domain via LSCP
A customer recently reported that they were getting an error when trying to enable a user in a...
Date: 07/03/2011
Communicator 2007 R2 Release Version Numbers and Corresponding Patches
One of the most common checks that we do when troubleshooting Communicator client issues is to check...
Date: 05/30/2011
What’s in a (pool) Name?
A customer decided to set up a new Lync environment and dutifully followed “Migration from...
Date: 05/29/2011
Enable Audio in Windows 2008 guest machines running on HyperV
One of the very first things that I had to do after joining Microsoft was to build my own lab....
Date: 04/07/2011