Description;-
After installation the service is not getting started and when trying to start the service it gives event 7024 in ‘System’. The content of the event is “The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service terminated with service-specific error %%-2147221213.”
Solution
Got to command prompt from the Database server where you get this issue and run ‘gpupdate /force’.
Issue;-
While removing/disabling a user from Lync we got an error ‘Active Directory operation failed on “dc”. You cannot retry this operation:”insufficient access rights to perform the operation. Please refer below screenshot.
Solution:-
Solution was so simple even though I took lot of time to find the solution. “Protect object from accidental deletion” was set for the account from AD that is the reason it was not allowing to delete.
From Active Directory users and computer find the user and go to ‘Object’ from properties you can find this settings.
Moving CMS to 2013 is very straight one and below are the steps to follow. In the article I also follow how to create replication only for the migrated DBs once the migration is done.
Preparing Lync Server 2013 Front End Servers before moving the Central Management Server
Use the procedures in this section to prepare the Lync Server 2013 Front End Servers before you move the Lync Server 2010 Central Management Server.
To prepare an Enterprise Edition Front End pool
1. On the Lync Server 2013 Enterprise Edition Front End pool where you want to relocate the Central Management Server: Log on to the computer where the Lync Server Management Shell is installed as a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group. You must also have SQL Server database sysadmin user rights and permissions on the database where you want to install the Central Management store.
2. Open the Lync Server Management Shell.
3. To create the new Central Management store in the Lync Server 2013 SQL Server database, in the Lync Server Management Shell, type:
Install-CsDatabase -CentralManagementDatabase -SQLServerFQDN <FQDN of your SQL Server> -SQLInstanceName <name of instance>
Please note that if you are using the default instance then you dont have to mention that. In this example i am using default instance.
You may see the installation is going-on. Wait for the run to finish
4. Confirm that the status of the Lync Server Front-End service is started.
1.On the Lync Server 2013 server that will be the Central Management Server: Log on to the computer where the Lync Server Management Shell is installed as a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group. You must also have the SQL Server database administrator user rights and permissions.
2.Open Lync Server Management Shell.
3.In the Lync Server Management Shell, type:
Enable-CsTopology
And press enter
Warning:
If Enable-CsTopology is not successful, resolve the problem preventing the command from completing before continuing. If Enable-CsTopology is not successful, the move will fail and it may leave your topology in a state where there is no Central Management store.
4.On the Lync Server 2013 Front End Server or Front End pool, in the Lync Server Management Shell, type:
Move-CsManagementServer
5.Lync Server Management Shell displays the servers, file stores, database stores, and the service connection points of the Current State and the Proposed State. Read the information carefully and confirm that this is the intended source and destination. Type Y to continue.
6.Review any warnings or errors generated by the Move-CsManagementServer command and resolve them.
7.On the Lync Server 2013 server, open the Lync Server Deployment Wizard.
8.In Lync Server Deployment Wizard, click Install or Update Lync Server System, click Step 2: Setup or Remove Lync Server Components, click Next, review the summary, and then click Finish.
9.On the Lync Server FE servers, open the Lync Server Deployment Wizard.
10.In Lync Server Deployment Wizard, click Install or Update Lync Server System, click Step 2: Setup or Remove Lync Server Components, click Next, review the summary, and then click Finish.
11.To confirm that replication with the new Central Management store is occurring, in the Lync Server Management Shell, run ‘Get-CsManagementStoreReplicationStatus’ command and review the result.
Please note that, if you have a implemented mirroring for Lync 2013 databases then the migrated DBs will not be in getting a mirroring. To add the migrated DBs to mirroring you have to run the below command from Lync Management Shell. Please note that in this example ‘\\uclycdb003.ucserver.in\LyncSQLMirror$’ is my SQL share which is created for mirroring and ‘uclycdb001.ucserver.in’ is my primary database server where principle DBs are.
Install-CsMirrorDatabase -ConfiguredDatabases -FileShare "\\uclycdb003.ucserver.in\LyncSQLMirror$" -SqlServerFqdn "uclycdb001.ucserver.in" -ExcludeDatabaseList "cpsdyn","rgsdyn","rgsconfig","qoemetrics","lcscdr","rtcshared","rtcxds","rtcab"
Hope this will help, please let me know if you have any confusion so that i can try to help!
I am just finishing the migration of Lync 2010 to Lync 2013 for one of my client. While designing Lync 2013 infrastructure I had a question from my client on how to create a Exchange Dynamic DL with all Lync users in it. I was not able to answer this question at that time as customer is having a pure Exchange 2010 environment so I kept the question as parked and finally I could find a answer for that. Please note that there is no straight way to do it from Exchange tools.
Here is the steps which I followed. Hope this will help someone who is looking for similar answer.
There 4 pretty interesting features announced by Microsoft with July updates. Bellow are the features,
You can read more about the same from MS blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/lync/archive/2013/07/16/july-2013-updates-for-the-lync-2013-desktop-client.aspx
I had a strange requirement from one of my client. He wanted to see Lync conferencing policy change on an account!
If the policy is changed then he would like to have mail send to him with the information and the check should happen every one hour. Checking every one hour and reporting it when ever policy change was a nightmare for my Operations team and i thought of automating it by using a powershell script :)
First you have to create a file with current information which can be used for comparing the status of policy.
#import the moudule Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2013\Modules\Lync\Lync.psd1' #Below line will create a file which can be used for comparing. You have to change the sip address with the username which you are going run it. Get-CsUser sip:user@domain.com |select-object Identity, ConferencingPolicy |Export-csv D:\Scripts\AccountMonitoring\Default.csv -NoTypeInformation
#Import the Lync module
Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2013\Modules\Lync\Lync.psd1'
#Get current policy which is assigned to the user to a file
Get-CsUser sip:user@domain.com |select-object Identity, ConferencingPolicy |Export-csv D:\Scripts\AccountMonitoring\Latest.csv -NoTypeInformation
#give the time to create the file
Sleep 60
#Creating the message which should be send in case there is a change.
$action = "Plase note that Conferencing Policy on account 'account@domain.com' has been changed, so request you to verify the configuration."
#Compare the files
compare-object -referenceobject $(get-content D:\Scripts\AccountMonitoring\default.csv) -differenceobject $(get-content D:\Scripts\LMSAccountMonitoring\latest.csv) |Export-Csv -Path D:\Scripts\AccountMonitoring\Output.csv -NoTypeInformation
$output = Get-Content D:\Scripts\AccountMonitoring\Output.csv
if ($output -eq $null)
{exit 0}
else
{
$smtpServer = "smtp.dmain.com"
$smtpFrom = "SAccountReporting@domain.com"
$smtpTo = "prajeesh@domain.com"
$messageSubject = "Change On Account Policy"
$message = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $smtpfrom, $smtpto
$message.Subject = $messageSubject
$message.IsBodyHTML = $true
$message.Body = $message.Body + $action
$smtp = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($message)
}
Long awaited Lync 2013 for Mobile device has been released today, but its now only for windows phone and looks like we have to wait for some more time to get it for iPhone, Android, etc.
Please read more about the client through below link,
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/lync-2013/d85d8a57-0f61-4ff3-a0f4-444e131d8491
Its been always a confusion when we start installing Lync on a system. In order to simplify the confusion below are the notes for Windows 2008 R2
1. Install powershell 3 on the servers.
2. Install .net 4.5
3. Install OS perquisites
a. On server open PowerSheell
b. From powershell prompt type ‘Import-Module ServerManager’ and hit enter key
c. Next type below command and hit enter key
‘Add-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Net-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Filtering,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-Scripting-Tools,Web-Client-Auth,Desktop-Experience, Web-Dyn-Compression’
d. Reboot the server
4. Install Windows Media Format Runtime
Run below command from command prompt refer below screenshot.
%systemroot%\system32\dism.exe /online /add-package /packagepath:%windir%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-Media-Format-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.7601.17514.mum /ignorecheck
