Thomas.Poett@TEAMS (MVP Teams and Cross-Tenant M&A/D Migration Expert Lead)

If you are running the second step in upgrading Lync Server 2013 CU1: Install-CsDatabase -ConfiguredDatabases -SqlServerFqdn SE.FQDN -Verbose You might run into an error: Error: An error occurred: "Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.DeploymentExecption" "Cannot find any suitable disks for database files. You must manually specify database paths." Solution: This error is simply a problem with your disk space. You only need to make sure you have sufficient disk space left. As far as I figured out, you need at least 20GB left on your HDD.   Author: Thomas Pött Managing Consultant Microsoft UC

If you encounter the following error on a Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 2012 Server with Exchange or Lync: The Windows Process Activation Service encountered an error trying to read configuration data from file ‘\\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config’, line number ’0′.  The error message is: ‘Configuration file is not well-formed XML’.  The data field contains the error number. The only thing you have to do is: copy a "healthy" applicationHost.config file in c:\inetpub\history and put it into c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\config. Author: Thomas Pött Managing Consultant Microsoft UC

Beside some Client Updates also the Server components are updated and some issues were addressed. Caution: if you are updating the Lync 2013 Server installation and you have Database Mirroring installed, you need to break the mirror and initiate the update, afterwards you have to reestablish the mirror again: Get-CsDatabaseMirrorState -PoolFqdn Pool.FQDN -Verbose Uninstall-CsMirrorDatabase -DatabaseType Application -SqlServerFQDN EEBE.FQDN -SqlInstanceName SQLInstanceName -DropExistingDatabasesOnMirror -Verbose Install-CsDatabase -ConfiguredDatabases -SqlServerFqdn EEBE.Fqdn -Verbose Install-CsMirrorDatabase -DatabaseType Application -SqlServerFQDN EEBE.Fqdn -SqlInstanceName SQLInstanceName -FileShare MirrorFileshare -Verbose Get-CsDatabaseMirrorState -PoolFqdn Pool.FQDN -Verbose Cumulative Updates & Administrative Tools Lync Server 2013, February 2013 CU1 Lync Server 2013 Resource Kit Tools Lync Server 2013 Debugging Tools Lync Server 2013 Whiteboard...

Just for some clarification: You need to identify your download package, depending which version you have installed.   How to obtain and install the update The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center: Lyncloc (THIS MEANS: LYNC 2013 BASIC CLIENT - downloadable version) Download the x86 package now.       Download the x64 package now.   Msores (THIS MEANS: LYNC 2013 FULL CLIENT with OFFICE 2013) Download the x86 package now.           Download the x64 package now.     Author: Thomas Pött Managing Consultant Microsoft UC

I'm so excited, finally Microsoft did it , as I had announced last November 2012. The VoIP feature for Lync 2013 Mobile Client and it is amazing guys.... First let me summarize some requirements: You will need an Lync 2013 Server CU update. CU1, which will be released soon. Sure, as it was with Lync 2010, you need to deploy the mobile connectivity setup up. You mobile device must be connected via 3G, 4G or Wifi. What else is expected? The RELEASE DATE is addressed for: Windows Phone and iPhone/ iPAD: early March 2013 Android Phone:  around April 2013   Blackberry: on the road map PRESENCE and IM Windows 8 & Windows RT Windows Phone Android iPhone iPAD Lync and Lync online connectivity YES YES YES YES YES New UI, photo, status, presence YES YES YES YES YES View Lync contact list YES YES YES YES YES IM, multipa...

http://lync.microsoft.com/en-us/get-lync/Pages/lync-licensing.aspx   Version 1.8, 09.10.2014 I receive, especially from Pre-Sales Consultant and Account Manager (Sales), all kind of questions regarding "How do I have to license the Lync" in different scenarios.   It is simply done like this, since we only have 4 different type of licenses:   Server Licenses: Available for Frontend Service only ( no more Standard or Enterprise License )   Client Access Licenses (CALs):   Three CALs are available Lync Standard CAL (IM, presence), Lync Enterprise CAL (audio, video, web conferencing), Lync Plus CAL (Enterprise voice features) Enterprise CALs and Plus CALs are additive to the Standard CAL. This means for you, you can combine the following: Standard CAL, Standard + Enterprise CAL, Standard + Plus CAL, Standard + Enterprise + Plus CAL CALs are available as either Device CALs or User CALs Please consider this wisely, if you chose a Dev...