Or was it hard to choose the best session and did you plan to watch the recordings later like me???
Well you better hurry up since the last day to access the site is April 16, 2013
Attendees can access all session videos and PowerPoint’s through MyLync until April 16, 2013
If you are in to hosting this might be something for you.
Its a detailed matrix of supported Lync features that comparing Lync Server 2013 with Lync Hoster Pack (V1 & V2) and Lync Online (Office 365).
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38816
Im building a monitoring solution for one of my customers and noticed that their RSS URL was the same as mine, and I found this a little weird since they are upgraded and I’m not.
Anyway as I researched this I found out that my RSS feed URL has been changed and that my monitoring was pointing at the old one.
NOT so good. So IF you rely on this RSS feed for monitoring of your Office 365 service. make sure that you are using the right one and that it hasn’t been changed without your notice.
When in a meeting there are a few things that really annoys me, and those are really easy to fix, but the stress of leading a meeting, presenting and talking at the same time as holding a meeting is not easy and I know I have failed on some of these things to.
But here they are, as well as the remediation
As a presenter you can just open the “Participants Window” by clicking on this icon in your Lync meeting –> 
By doing that you will see all participants and you will also se what modalities of the meeting they are connected to.
Credits of this tip goes to: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jenstr/archive/2013/04/22/please-let-me-know-when-you-can-see-this.aspx
Well this one is super simple. Again under the “Participants Window” click it and select Action and then “Mute audience” and when you later open up for questions, unmute the Audience. This will enable to just focus on your presentation and not have to find the one person that has that baby screaming or sitting at a Starbucks near a school at their lunch break.
By the way, if you present a PowerPoint that has a media file in it, when that slide plays, EVERYONE is muted, that means even the presenters, so after that video is done playing, you need to unmute yourself.
And as a bonus, if you are the presenter, be early, like 10-15 minutes early, and plug in your computer, that means a wired connection (if possible) and power.
Also make sure to chose the correct audio/video device and upload your presentation in advance. Create your polls and then sit back close your eyes and relax for the rest of the 5 minutes before you start. If presenting, you should always distress before presenting something and it will feel a lot better.
In two weeks its time for me to be on the other side in the class room when the MCSM: Communication Solutions Master kicks of.
It will be three weeks of Lync, Lync and Lync. And I will be in Seattle from the 4th to the 26th of may.
I plan to be mostly offline from everything except the training and my family so don’t expect any updates to the blog during this time, also I’m taking a restrictive approach to email where I will only answer emails that are marked important to be able to filter out what’s important from the other email.
To prepare for the masters I’m spending most evenings with reading now and it’s a good timing that this just got released.
I like browsing around in the technet docs and finding new powershell commands that do magic with Lync.
Like this one Set-CsVoicemailReroutingConfiguration
That allows you to modify settings that determine where Auto Attendant and Subscriber Access calls are rerouted to when IP connectivity to an Exchange UM server is lost.
The numbers provided by these settings allow callers to leave voice mail messages for Enterprise Voice users (the AutoAttendantNumber setting) and for those users to retrieve voice mail even if the IP connectivity from the Lync Server deployment at a remote site to Exchange UM in the data center is unavailable (the SubscriberAccessNumber setting).
Hi all, post is in Swedish since this will be a local monthly community tech call for the Swedish Lync customers and partners.
Microsoft kommer från och med april att hålla ett Lync Tech Community online call en gång i månaden där vi diskuterar olika Lync-relaterade ämnen. Det kommer hållas en kort presentation av ett specifikt område och därefter har vi en Q&A session. Ämnena kommer att variera från att vara av övergripande natur till en mer djupare teknisk karaktär.
Det första tillfället kommer handla om nyheter i Lync 2013 och hålls hålls den 23 april, kl 13.00-14.00.
Vi tar gärna emot förslag på ämnen för kommande tillfällen. Skicka era förslag till Arifur Rahman.
Presentatörer:
Arifur Rahman, Lync Technical Solution Specialist
Tommy Clarke, Lync V-TSP
Peter Möller, Lync V-TSP
Today I got a 150+ emails, most of them was not important, some bonus mails wanting me to book a hotel, some Exchange UM system emails, some spam, some spam that I signed up for, and about 50 “real email”. And the sad thing is that MOST of these 50 emails could have been IMs and then resolved faster.
So about one third of my email I received today was just making me loose focus. I like to practice mailbox zero so I have rules for most of my task, so that I know what to do with them.
But I still have to press one of those buttons for every email I receive, even if its not important.
From now on I will try to use the built in “focus tool” in windows 8 a bit more, it can be found in the settings charm and if you then press “Notifications” you will have the option of turning them off.
This means, if you want to reach me, please use LYNC
Update: Apparently we don’t need to include -update any longer so the below is not longer valid!
Summary: include –update when you update the database via PowerShell
The KB article on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2809243 has some errors in its PowerShell commands for the Lync Backend database upgrade.
the missing thing is –update
Before you update your Lync Server backend you should always run these commands:
MD C:\LyncUpdates
Test-CsDatabase -SqlServerFqdn FQDNSQL -ConfiguredDatabases | Out-File -FilePath c:\LyncUpdates\testcsdatabasebefore.txt -Append
Test-CsDatabase -SqlServerFqdn FQDNSQL -CentralManagementDatabase | Out-File -FilePath c:\LyncUpdates\testcsdatabasebefore.txt –Append
In the textfile that you just created you will see what db versions you are on (this is good for later reference).
Then run the command to update the db there are some different parameters and so on depending on your setups, so please make sure to read the KB article on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2809243 and If you just copy/paste and run the examples from the KB article it will will look something like this.
Notice how the ExpectedVersion and the InstalledVersion differs.
Then rerun the command and now include –update and it will actually update.
To all the developers out there, keep an eye out on the http://ucwa.lync.com/ page that should go live any second, minute, day or something since CU1, (they really meant Cumulative Update February 2013) just was released!
