Showing posts with label Lync Server Control panel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lync Server Control panel. Show all posts

22 March, 2012

How to search user in Lync server 2010 control panel?

How to search user in Lync server 2010 control panel?

You can search for users by using the Lync Server Control Panel or the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.

To search for one or more users via Lync server control panel-

1.   From a user account that is assigned to the CsUserAdministrator role or the CsAdministrator role, log on to any computer in your internal deployment.

2.   Open a browser window, and then enter the Admin URL to open the Lync Server Control Panel. For details about the different methods you can use to start Lync Server Control Panel.

3.   In the left navigation bar, click Users.

4.   In the Search users box, type all or the first portion of the display name, first name, last name, SAM account name, SIP address, or line URI of the user account that you want to search for, and then click Find.

5.   (Optional) Specify additional search criteria to narrow the results:

     a. Click the expand arrow button in the upper-right corner of the screen above Search  results, and then click Add Filter.

    b. Enter the user property by typing it or clicking the arrow in the drop-down list to select a user property.

   c. In the Equal to list, click Equal to or Not equal to.

   d. In the text box, type the search criteria you want to use to filter search results, and then click Find.

19 March, 2012

What is Central Management Store (CMS) on Microsoft Lync Server 2010?

What is Central Management Store (CMS) on Microsoft Lync Server 2010?

Central Management Store (CMS), which holds information about all the roles and settings in the deployment and it, is newly introduced in Lync Server 2010

CMS replaces the various data stores that were used in OCS. The benefit of this Central Management
Store is that once the topology is defined and published, every installation simply pulls from the defined configuration.

Advantages of CMS:-
Server management centralized, No need to connect server remotely.
 CMS replaced OCS Console. This minimizes administrator input and allows automated deployment.

Certificates are requested and deployed and the fact that the Edge server role can now be centrally managed.
The administrator no longer has to connect remotely to that server to manage it locally.

Available flavour of Lync Server 2010
1.       Lync  2010 Standard Edition (Runs on single server)
2.      Lync 2010 Enterprise Edition.

Like many Microsoft server applications, Lync has a Standard and an Enterprise Edition.

The Standard Edition is fully functional but runs on a single server, using a SQL Express back-end database. It is still supported by other roles, such as the Edge, Monitoring, and Archiving roles, which would still run on other physical server hardware. The supporting roles don’t have a definition of Standard or Enterprise; they simply support the deployed front-end servers. The Enterprise Edition allows for higher availability and more scalability of the roles to support organizations with hundreds of thousands of users. Both versions of the software can be installed only on a Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 64-bit operating system (OS) and must be installed on the full GUI version of those operating systems rather than the Server Core version.

How Lync Server 2010 Central Management Store (CMS) look like?