LyncFix: This Just In: Lync 2013 CU5 Has Been Released!.

If the default Zeacom System Administrator (or System Admin) credentials for your deployment have not been changed, they should be: Login Name: System Admin Password: 2222

New July 2014 Lync Phone Edition updates: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2973941 This cumulative update resolves the following issue: 2973943 Update for Lync Phone Edition to accommodate daylight saving time (DST) in Egypt and Morocco

My good colleague Anthony Caragol wrote a nice Lync tool to backup and restore contacts in Lync 2013. Check it out! Lync 2013 Contact Backup and Restore Tool (GUI).

Update: Sophos released an official guide on how to get Lync Web Services to work over the UTM’s WAF. https://sophserv.sophos.com/repo_kb/120454/file/Configuring%20UTM%20firewall%20for%20Lync%20connectivity.pdf Using a Sophos UTM or Astaro Security Gateway (ASG) appliance? You can use it to reverse proxy to your Lync front ends! v8 a feature called Web Application Firewall, which is a nicely wrapped version of Apache mod_proxy, and can be configured to reverse proxy your Lync Mobility and simple URLs, Office Web Apps and can also work with Exchange and pass Outlook Anywhere. The added benefit is that you can configure rules to block Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection type attacks, among other things. ...

Both Lync and Exchange rely heavily on public-key encryption using X.509 certificates (commonly known as SSL Certificates), and so they are required in every implementation. Regardless of whether you are using a public certification authority like DigiCert, or host your own internal CA, generating, installing and managing certificates can get pretty complex, especially when you have to deal with Intermediate Certificates. Certificate Chains can be a confusing concept and hopefully I do a good job in trying to explain them with a real-world analogy. Here goes: ...

Going to Help > About in the AudioCodes Syslog tool ACSyslog gives you a nice little show at first… The little animation blew my mind, so I subconsciously clicked on it, and was blown away even more. BOOM! Have fun using Keys 1, 5, Left, Right and Ctrl while debugging SIP messages!

X.509 certs are annoying. You need to get them issued with the right names, or reissued if you make a mistake or forget a SAN, and they need to be cared for from time to time otherwise they expire and make your world hell. Wouldn’t it be great if you could make them last longer than the default of 2 years? Especially if you’ve installed them all over your Lync infrastructure, like: ...

The Lync 2013 Management Shell has a tendency of getting stuck or hung when running on Windows Server 2012 R2. Upon opening it, all you see is a black window, no prompt. To fix the problem, just install the latest Cumulative Update package (CU from January 2014 fixes the problem). http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2809243

During configuration of an AudioCodes gateway, a required config for successful TLS negotiation is the use of an NTP server. If you’re running Active Directory domain in your network, your primary time source is the Domain Controller hosting the PDC Operations Master role. To test NTP is working correctly before hardcoding it into your appliances, you can run the following command: w32tm /stripchart /computer: The Stripchart modifier will show a strip chart of the offset between your computer and the NTP source you specified. ...