I found this great CSR (Certificate Signing Request) tool named DigiCertUtil.exe in Jeff Schertz’s blog. It is a portable execution file, which means you don’t need to install it in your server. With this tool, I was able to simply generate the CSR file for both my Lync Edge server’s external and internal NIC. The … Continue reading Certificate Request Tool – DigiCertUtil.exe
SCVMM 2008 R2 VM Status Tricks
I experienced couple times the VM migration stuck in middle of the process due to this and that reasons. After the failed migration, there is not much you can do in the SCVMM console, as the only choice you can do is to click ‘repair’ to try to fix it. But sometimes, the repair can … Continue reading SCVMM 2008 R2 VM Status Tricks
SCVMM 2008 R2 – Storage Migration
‘Storage Migration’ is a very handy function in SCVMM 2008 R2. With this tool, you are able to move the VM storage (configuration file and VHD file) from one place to the other with minimum downtime (less than 1 minute). This diagram illustrates how the storage migration works. This function is simple to use, just … Continue reading SCVMM 2008 R2 – Storage Migration
Force to Use Lync Web App
If you click the online meeting URL on a machine that already has Lync 2010 client installed, it will launch the Lync client as default. I tested it both in FireFox and IE, and they are all the same. If you want to force it to use Lync Web App, what you need to is … Continue reading Force to Use Lync Web App
Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications
According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Microsoft and Cisco are the best two Unified Communication solution vendors in the current market. http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1728DMD&ct=110823&st=sb
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