Akshat's Blog

Making sense of Schannel Event ID 36882

If you have ever looked at Events logs of a fairly busy Lync or Office Communications Edge server in...

Author: Akshat N Date: 03/19/2013

Distribution Group Expansion failures

A customer reported that they were unable to expand Distribution Groups using Communicator 2007 R2...

Author: Akshat N Date: 03/15/2013

Abserver -syncNow fails

I ran into an issue in my lab where I was unable to run abserver -regenur manually using...

Author: Akshat N Date: 03/15/2013

Modifying msRTCSIP-UserPolicies causes logon failures. Event 41009

I want to document an issue I came across in hopes that it will save someone some pain. When...

Author: Akshat N Date: 03/15/2013

Lync Server 2013 Pre-requisites

I have been building labs for Lync Server 2013 and needed to quickly install the pre-requisites for...

Author: Akshat N Date: 01/30/2013

Lync Server 2013 (Preview) : Getting my (your) feet wet

Tell me, I’ll forget Show me, I’ll remember Involve me, I’ll understand This is a...

Author: Akshat N Date: 07/17/2012

A lot of people have asked me if I had some links/resources so that they can learn and understand...

Author: Akshat N Date: 07/15/2012

Unable to Scorch a Lync Install

We had a need to uninstall and re-install Lync components from a Standard Edition Lync server and to...

Author: Akshat N Date: 02/19/2012

Lync 2010 Release Version Numbers and Corresponding Patches

This blog entry is no longer updated, please see the Next Hop blog entry for updates released by...

Author: Akshat N Date: 07/27/2011

Automatically enable users in a particular OU for Lync 2010

In Lync 2010 we now have to use either the Lync Server Management Shell  or the web-based Lync...

Author: Akshat N Date: 07/26/2011

Error enabling users in sub-domain via LSCP

A customer recently reported that they were getting an error when trying to enable a user in a...

Author: Akshat N Date: 07/03/2011

Communicator 2007 R2 Release Version Numbers and Corresponding Patches

One of the most common checks that we do when troubleshooting Communicator client issues is to check...

Author: Akshat N Date: 05/30/2011

What’s in a (pool) Name?

A customer decided to set up a new Lync environment and dutifully followed “Migration from...

Author: Akshat N Date: 05/29/2011

Enable Audio in Windows 2008 guest machines running on HyperV

One of the very first things that I had to do after joining Microsoft was to build my own lab....

Author: Akshat N Date: 04/07/2011