Lync Deep Diving - part 2

Second day of diving is done. Glad to see that we have Andrew John Price (@legendarytechy) in class. Follow his blog at http://lyncme.co.uk

Tools

First we discussed some nice tools that are free for anyone to download:

• SEFAutil GUI by Johan Veldhuis
• Lync 2013 Call Pickup Group Manager by James Cussen
• Microsoft Lync Wireshark Plugin also by James Cussen
• Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Debugging Tools

The collection of Debugging Tools includes...

• Snooper
• OCSLogger
• OCSTracer
• ClsController.psm1

...and a question that came up about the difference between OCSlogger and OCStracer?

OCStracer is the cmd line version of OCSdebugger. For example you could use...

OCSTracer.exe List /Filter:All
OCSTracer.exe start /Component:SIPStack
OCSTracer.exe stop /Component:SIPStack

...rather than using the GUI.

Lync client logging

Some logging settings were added to the client policy in Lync 2013.

Lync Contacts

Got a good question on Lync Contacts from a friend (thanks Robert!) Here is how Lync Contacts works for a user that is disabled or removed from Lync. If the user is "Temporarily disable for Lync Server" in CSCP (Set-CsUser -Enabled $False) and then enabled again - the user WILL retain the list of Contacts in the Lync 2013 client.

However, if the user is "Remove from Lync Server" in CSCP (Disable-CsUser) and then added to Lync again - the user WILL NOT retain the list of Contacts in the Lync 2013 client.