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About Kevin Peters

My name is Kevin Peters.

Introducing the OCSGuy_QuickUI

This is a utility I wrote to provide a GUI for common power shell tasks.  This is a version 1 utility and I do expect to update it semi-frequently.  The entire utility is included in a single .ps1 file and … Continue reading

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A Few Words on Federation

Recently, while creating some documentation for an install it struck me that federation may be a bit confusing if you aren’t working with Lync on a daily basis.  With that in mind I’m writing this article in hopes of clearing … Continue reading

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Lync Client Conversation Translator

Today we have a guest post by one of my colleges in the Unified Communications practice at PCMS, Adam Curry.  Hope you enjoy! Here is a really intriguing and interesting extension of the Lync 2010 client found in the Lync … Continue reading

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Lync CU1 Released

I haven’t seen these all in one place yet so I figured I’d post them.  Happy patching! Product KB Lync 2010 (64bit) 2467763 Lync 2010 (32bit) 2467763 Lync Server 2010 2493736 Lync 2010 Phone Edition (Tanjay) 2493722 Lync 2010 Phone … Continue reading

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Pending File Rename Registry Key Causes Lync/SQL Install to Halt

I’ve run into this one a few times, so I figured I’d share my experience.  During the “Prepare First Standard Edition Wizard” the installer says “The server must be restarted before installation can continue”.   I’ve also seen this same error … Continue reading

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Adding More than 10 Distribution Lists to the Lync Contact List

Just like in OCS with Lync you can add distribution lists to your contact list.  However, there is a default limitation on how many groups you can add to your list.  In Lync and OCS that limit is 10, which … Continue reading

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How to Customize the Meeting Entry Page for Lync

With Lync 2010 we now have a single client for Lync Client and the Online Meeting (formerly called Live Meeting) functionality which makes everything a little simpler.  If you have the Lync Client you get your meeting functionality and the … Continue reading

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Deploying XMPP for Lync

 After deploying our edge server and enabling federation in this article the next logical step may be to enable communication with other IM platforms such as Google Chat via the XMPP gateway.  At the time of Lync RTM there was … Continue reading

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Deploying an Edge Server with Lync

For this article and the next I am going to add an Edge server and an XMPP gateway to an existing Lync environment.  All articles moving forward will be built on the RTM bits of Lync, but to build the … Continue reading

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