Lync

How to describe Lync voice?

Recently I’ve been thinking quite a lot about how Lync can function as a PBX replacement. It’s clear that Microsoft have put a lot of time and effort into making sure that Lync can function “stand alone” as the sole voice solution in an enterprise, but is it really a true PBX replacement? There are undoubtedly situations where Lync will more than meet a businesses requirements and then others where it would fall significantly short (without lots of custom development). Anyway I wanted to just share something that I have previously written for work (as part of case study for my employer – Waterstons)

Unable to move Lync user DCOM error

Unable to move Lync user DCOM error

The other day when moving users between an OCS 2007 R2 pool and a new Lync pool I received the following error: Unable to connect to some of the servers in pool <name> due to a Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) error After a brief hunt around the net I...

Lync database creation error during topology publishing

Lync database creation error during topology publishing

Just a quicky… While publishing a new Lync pool today using the topology builder I got some errors about SQL permissions. After cleaning them up I re-published the topology and this time ended up with an even more obscure error message…