Paulskee-Lync

[paulskeelync]

SfB Hide Response group from contact list

In this post I will cover how to hide Response Groups from the Lync Address Book. You can hide users by setting the msExchHideFromAddressLists value to TRUE either by using the Exchange Management Console or Exchange Management Shell (If you have MS Exchange). You can also hide contacts (e.g. Common Area Phones/Analogue Devices) by setting the same value to TRUE using adsiedit. Microsoft also provide a tool in the Lync Resource Kit called ABSConfig that lets you configure who to include in the Address Book files.

To hide Response Groups you can use the same msExchHideFromAddressLists value but you need to find the object in adsiedit which can be a bit tricky. In this example my Lync global AD settings are stored in the Configuration container but yours may be in the System container.

System Container:        CN=Application Contacts, CN=RTC Service, CN=Microsoft,CN=System,DC=domain,DC=local Configuration Container:    CN=Application Contacts, CN=RTC Service, CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=local

Open adsiedit (start > run > “adsiedit.msc”)

On a 2008 R2 server by default you won’t see the configuration partition in adsiedit

Right click “Default naming context [dc.domain.local]” and click “Settings”.

Change “Select a well known Naming Context:” to “Configuration”.

Expand Services > RTC Service > Application Contacts

As you can see it is not easy to identify your response groups in the Application Contacts container. For each object if you right click and select properties you will see the Attribute Editor:

To identify which response group the object refers to find the “proxyAddress” value. This is the sip address of the Response Group. Once you have identified the Response Group you want to hide from the Address Book, find the value “msExchHideFromAddressLists” and set it to TRUE.

The Address Book process will update the Address Book files at a fixed time (pre-configured) or you can run Update-CSAddressbook. Clients update the Address Book every 24 hours so they should receive the new address book with the Response Group hidden.

[paulskeelync]

Teams/Lync Online personal settings URL

Teams/Lync Online personal settings URL

https://aka.ms/cqsettings

[paulskeelync]

Lync 2013 Enterprise voice user count

get-csuser -Filter {EnterpriseVoiceEnabled -eq $true} | Measure

[paulskeelync]

Skype for business online modern auth

Login to Skype online with powershell

Set-CsOAuthConfiguration -ClientAdalAuthOverride Allowed

Get-CsOAuthConfiguration

[paulskeelync]

Windows 2012 R2 prerequisites for Lync 2013

Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 All Server Roles require:

    Windows PowerShell 3.0 (is installed by default)     Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=268529) Additional Step's after Installation: Select WCF Activation if it isn’t already selected. Then select HTTP Activation, or include in PowerShell     Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 (activate via Server Manager)    or add via PowerShell    Add-WindowsFeature Windows-Identity-Foundation

Additional on all Standard and Enterprise Frontend Server:

    .NET 3.5 (must be manually activated)     SilverLight (optional)

Add-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS, Web-Server, 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-Request-Monitor, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Filtering, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Dyn-Compression, NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Mgmt-Tools, Web-Scripting-Tools, Web-Mgmt-Compat, Telnet-Client, BITS, Desktop-Experience, Windows-Identity-Foundation -Source D:\sources\sxs

[paulskeelync]

Skype for business user settings URL

https://mysettings.lync.com

[paulskeelync]

Skype Online PS

This is how to connect to Skype Online through Powershell.

Download this https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=39366

$credentials = Get-Credential $sfboSession = New-CsOnlineSession -credential $credentials -Verbose -overrideadmin “paulskee.onmicrosoft.com” Import-PSSession $sfboSession

[paulskeelync]

Lync Response groups call stuck

Occasionally Lync fails to remove a Response Group call from the database once the call is completed.

You can delete the stuck record from the “rgsdyn.MatchRequests” table directly on the SQL server:

1. Right-click the table and edit top 200 rows 2. Find stuck record and then delete

It is best to do this after hours or while there are no other active calls so you will only see a single stuck record.

You also can run the command “DELETE FROM [rgsdyn].[dbo].[MatchRequests];” to delete all records from the table. If there are many records (as all active calls in Lync are listed in this database), you can identify your one by the QueueId; look at “rgsconfig.Queues” table to see which id your queue has.

[paulskeelync]

Updating Lync 2013

Upgrade or update Front End serversTo upgrade Front End servers, follow these steps:

On a front-end server in a pool, run the following cmdlet: Get-CsPoolUpgradeReadinessState If the State value of the pool is Busy, wait for 10 minutes, and then try to run the Get-CsPoolUpgradeReadinessState cmdlet again. If you see Busy for at least three consecutive times after you wait 10 minutes in between each attempt, or if you see any result of InsufficientActiveFrontEnds for the State value of the pool, there is an issue with the pool. If you cannot resolve this issue, you may have to contact Microsoft Support. If this pool is paired with another front-end pool in a disaster recovery topology, you must fail over the pool to the backup pool, and then update these servers in this pool. For more information about how to fail over a pool, go to the following Microsoft website:How to fail over a poolIf the State value of the pool is Ready, go to step 2.

The Get-CsPoolUpgradeReadinessState cmdlet also returns information about the upgrade domains in the pool, and about which front-end servers are in each upgrade domain. If the ReadyforUpgrade value for the upgrade domain that contains the server that you want to upgrade is True, you can upgrade the server. To do this, you must follow these steps:

Stop new connections to the front-end servers by using the Stop-CsWindowsService -Graceful cmdlet.

Run the Cumulative Server Update Installer by using the UI or by using a command to upgrade the front-end servers that are associated with an upgrade domain. Note If you upgrade or update front-end servers during scheduled server downtime, you can run the cmdlet in step 2 without the -Graceful parameter. More specifically, run the cmdlet as Stop-CsWindowsService. This action immediately shuts down services, and the server does not wait until each existing service request is fulfilled. Note The UI provides a clear indication of which updates are installed when you click Install Updates. To run the Installer, run the following command:Notes The following text describes parameters that you can use together with the LyncServerUpdateInstaller.exe command:

Restart the server, and make sure that it is accepting new connections.

LyncServerUpdateInstaller.exe

The /silentmode switch applies all applicable updates in the background.

The /silentmode /forcereboot switch applies all applicable updates in the background, and then automatically restarts the server at the end of the installation process if this is necessary.

The /extractall switch extracts the updates from the installer and saves the updates in a subfolder that is named "Extracted" in the folder in which you ran the command.

[paulskeelync]

Audiocodes fix for MoH

Turns out it actually was a configuration issue on the Audiocodes device.  We had to change "Voip->Media->Media Security->Media Security Behavior" from "Preferable" to "Preferable - Single media".

Hold is now working on Incoming PSTN calls with Media Bypass enabled!

[paulskeelync]

List out disabled AD users in Lync

Get-CsAdUser -ResultSize Unlimited | Where-Object {$_.UserAccountControl -match "AccountDisabled" -and $_.Enabled} | Measure-Object

This provides a count of disabled users.

Get-CsAdUser -ResultSize Unlimited | Where-Object {$_.UserAccountControl -match "AccountDisabled" -and $_.Enabled -eq $true} | Format-TableName,Enabled,SipAddress -auto

If you want to disable all the Lync users that are already disabled in AD.

Get-CsAdUser -ResultSize Unlimited | Where-Object {$_.UserAccountControl -match "AccountDisabled" -and $_.Enabled} | Disable-CsUser

[paulskeelync]

Loading Lync tools into powershell

import-module lync

[paulskeelync]

Lync centralised logging

Output logging file, and then import into snooper tool

Searc-CsClsLogging -OutputFilePath “c:\LogFiles\logfile.txt”

[paulskeelync]

New application endpoint for ipfx

New-CsTrustedApplicationEndpoint -LineURI tel:+XXXXXXXXX -DisplayName "[name of queue]" -SipAddress sip:[email protected] -TrustedApplicationPoolFqdn "Server name” -ApplicationId “[Application Name]”

[paulskeelync]

Set Common area phone pin

set-csclientpin -identity “[Name of phone]” -pin [pin]

[paulskeelync]

No Ringback from PSTN to Lync via Audiocodes Gateway

Problem:

We had an issue where when calling a Lync phone from our PSTN with a Mediant 1000 Audiocodes device between Lync and the PSTN we were unable to hear ringback tones from the Lync device on the PSTN phone.

Answer:

This problem is one of those issue were there was 1 drop down option that needed changed to resolve it. On the Audiocodes Gateway, go to Configuration > Full > SIP Definitions > General Parameters. Go to the option Playback Tone to Tel and change it to Play Local Until Remote Media Arrives. Click Submit.

[paulskeelync]

Removing Lync 2010 contact details

So the reason why we needed to do this was cause a user changed from an old number to a new number and for some reason it kept reverting back to her old number. We checked AD and Lync admin and both were set to her new number. The only place that it was coming up with her old number was her lync contact card. 

Here is the fix that I used to removed it, but try at your own risk.

The dbimpexp tool can be found in the support directory of Lync:

X:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2010\Support

To change the information we will first need to export the information from the database:

dbimpexp /hrxmlfile:”c:\export.xml” /sqlserver:"[lyncsqlserver]\rtc" /restype:user /user:[email protected]

If you want to remove or change an entry you will need to update all entries in the XML. When you have replaced each entry save the file and import it into the database:

dbimpexp /import /hrxmlfile:”c:\export.xml” /sqlserver:"[lyncsqlserver]\rtc" /restype:user /user:[email protected]

When the data is uploaded in the database a new addressbook needs to be generated. This to update the addressbook with the new information.

Depending on when the client downloads the new addressbook the changes will be displayed within 60 minutes.