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Lync 2010 Resource Kit is Released

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

The Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit is a technical reference to Lyn Server and extends the planning, deploying and managing documentation in Microsoft’s Lync Technical Library.

After a number of months in preparation, the Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit has been published – and you can download it for free from Microsoft. The book has 18 chapters and you can download each one from the Microsoft Download Center. And from the same page, you can also get a single zip file with all the documents.

If you are interested in Lync, then these documents are a must read.

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Lync Databases

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:00:00 GMT

If you are an IT Pro managing Lync, you know that Lync has a key dependency on SQL databases. For the most part, you don’t need to know the details of what databases Lync actually uses but at times that knowledge can be very useful, like during troubleshooting! As a Lync (and OCS) trainer, I know a fair bit about how Lync (and OCS before it) makes use of SQL, but there are details that, until now, I wasn’t totally clear on,

Curtis Johnstone has written a great article on The Lync Server Databases which covers the databases used and what they are used for plus some other relevant information about SQL server (and what versions are needed).

I recommend reading this article (and bookmarking it) to learn more about this topic.

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Lync Resource Kit Server Administration Chapter Published by Microsoft

Anonymous — Wed, 25 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

I just got email that Microsoft has published another Lync Resource Kit chapter or your edification. This chapter, Server Administration, was written by Indranil Dutta and Jens Trier Rasmussen. I was, with others, one of the technical reviewers. You can either download just this chapter, or download all 8 of the published chapter from here.

There are three key aspects to this chapter. First, the chapter covers Lync’s Central Management Store, including the data stored in the CMS, how replication of CMS occurs, and how to manage the CMS. The second section looks at the Lync Server Control Panel and how it works. The final section talks about Role Based Access Control and how to create custom RBAC scopes.

IN looking at it, one thing kind of missing is Management using PowerShell – perhaps an introduction to PowerShell’s object model inside Lync. RBAC is based on PowerShell, so using RBAC and creating custom roles is covered. With over 600 cmdlets, I would have preferred some more details in the Server Administration chapter. Call me fussy!

The writing in the chapter is good, and it’s illustrated by some excellent diagrams. This chapter is 24 pages long – and well worth a read if you are architecting or implementing Lync Server.

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Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

One of the neat aspects of the Lync Server 2010 Resource is that it’s being published online, chapter by chapter as each chapter is finished. I suspect there will eventually be a physical book, in the meantime, Lync admins can get the deep technical and management info direct from the web.

Today, the latest chapter, Troubleshooting Lync, was released. To get this and the other released chapters, navigate to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8c64a1e1-f0b3-479c-a265-e480875c61d8&displaylang=en and download from there. You can download each of the 7 chapters published so one by one, or get a 12MB ZIP file with all the chapters.

If you are using Lync, or considering it, these downloads are mandatory reading.

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