Lync voice routing: block 9xx premium numbers

Here is an example of the route patters that does not allow calls to 9xx numbers in Germany


^\+(?!499)(\d*)$

Australia

^\+(?!61)(\d*)$

USA

^\+(?!1)(\d*)$

Switzerland

^\+(?!41)(\d*)$

Wav file with G.723.1 codec can not be played in Windows Media Player of Windows 8

To solve the issue follow the advice on this link:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.audio/lv5AWSNNw38


"I ended up copying the msg723.acm file from a Windows 2003 Server,  dropped 

it in the \windows\syswow64 directory, then creating a registry entry to the
file under
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Note\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
REG_SZ  msacm.msg723 = msg723.acm .

Now the codec shows up in the Media Player About listing and I can play back 

the call recordings.

Lindsay"


Indeed it works much better now.  I have this kind of file generated a voice recording in Altigen MaxACD Call center WAV G.723.1 ((khz, 8bit, Mono, 0.8kb/sec)

the other choice is WAV GSM and WAV PCM. The latter can be played in Media Player out of the box.

Configuring Claims-based Authentication for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41701
as well as the blog article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/niran_belliappa/archive/2014/01/16/step-by-step-configuring-crm-2013-internet-facing-deployment-ifd.aspx

Text to speech (Google API)

http://soundoftext.com/

How to change ADFS token life from default 60 to 240 minutes

How to change ADFS token life from default 60 to 240 minutes:

Set-ADFSRelyingPartyTrust -Targetname "relying_party" -TokenLifetime 240

MS CRM and ADFS issue after SSL certificate renewal

An error when you try to access Web service of Federation metadata:

Keyset does not exist

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/servergeeks/archive/2014/07/10/keyset-does-not-exist-error.aspx

Altigen MaxACD 6.5 and AMD CPU

Altigen supports only Intel processor. However, we have successfully tested MaxACD in VMWare Virtual machine in a host with AMD Opteron processor.

Some help for Lync, SFB designers

https://skypevalidator.com

SFB conversations in mobile and Desktop are different?

http://ucmart.uk/2015/06/15/skype-for-business-enable-server-side-conversation-history/

MS Project - task types

All is turning around a simple formula:

W =  U * D

where W - work, U - units (number of resources for the task), D - duration.

Task types can be Fixed Work, Fixed Units, Fixed Duration.

Most used is Fixed Work.

If you have 32h of Work and it is fixed, you need 1 person (8h working day) and 4 days then duriation. If you add additonal resource, now you have say 2 persons - then duration will be 2.


Now if you would set task as Fixed Duration and you add second person, MSP will change Work, not duration (because it is fixed). It is less intuitive, but once you have formula and mind and you know which variable is fixed, then all become clear.

Fixed units is also a task type, and guess what - the same formula applies.  Can not change unit then. By changing duration to 2 you will half the work to 16. The same MPS person can only do half of the work if you ask him to half duration.

What's new in SharePoint 2016

http://en.share-gate.com/blog/whats-new-in-sharepoint-2016

5000 items limit removed
10gb files upload
Hybrid nature

SfB client login process

http://skype4b.uk/2015/11/03/skype-for-business-client-sign-in-workflow-chart-external/

SharePoint 2010 updates

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn789211(v=office.14).aspx


http://blogs.technet.com/b/steve_chen/archive/2015/10/14/build-numbers-cube-sheet-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx#updatesequence


http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2010builds  (not yet up-to-date for October 2015 patch)

How to generate packets for testing

The easiest is with Nmaps nping:

 .\nping -c 9999999 --delay 10s --tcp -p 5061 my_testing_host_ip

Take a network trace from SBA without wireshark

SBA is a difficult animal, you do not want to install extra software on it. If you still need to take network trace you can create a following cmd file:

netsh trace start persistent=yes capture=yes maxsize=2048 tracefile=c:\temp\nettrace.etl

timeout 60

netsh trace stop


and run is as administrator

Then open in Microsoft Message Analyser and save as - export as netmon .cap file.

Then you can read it with Wireshark if you want, as you can see it is not possible without Wireshark :)

or use https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng 

Increase upload file size in Sharepoint 2010

http://yalla.itgroove.net/2013/01/25/sharepoint-2010-file-size-upload-limits-the-essential-mix/

Six ways to restore SharePoint content

http://www.proactivespeaks.com/2013/05/07/sharepoint-2010-six-ways-to-recover-lost-content/

How to force remove site if remove-spsite gives an error 0x80070003

https://peterheibrink.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/forcefully-delete-site-collection/

$siteUrl = “http://dms/case/P68430“
$site = get-spsite $siteUrl
$siteId = $site.Id
$siteDatabase = $site.ContentDatabase
$siteDatabase.ForceDeleteSite($siteId, $false, $false)

How to recover SQL db with corrupted log

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/creating-detaching-re-attaching-and-fixing-a-suspect-database/

New-SPContentDatabase creates database with guid instead of name

Hello if you are trying to create a content DB with a name, but instead SP creates name with GUID - make sure that SQL database is deleted from Management studio, but also that files in the disk also deleted (mdf and log). If files will still be there, powershell will not create DB with that name.

SharePoint 2010: DataForm Web Part displays "Unable to display this Web Part"

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2639184

Error while executing web part: System.StackOverflowException: Operation caused a stack overflow. 
    at Microsoft.Xslt.NativeMethod.CheckForSufficientStack() 
    at Execute(XmlQueryRuntime ) 
    at System.Xml.Xsl.XmlILCommand.Execute(Object defaultDocument, XmlResolver dataSources, XsltArgumentList argumentList, XmlWriter writer, Boolean closeWriter) 
    at System.Xml.Xsl.XmlILCommand.Execute(IXPathNavigable contextDocument, XmlResolver dataSources, XsltArgumentList argumentList, XmlWriter results) 
    at System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform.Transform(IXPathNavigable input, XsltArgumentList arguments, XmlWriter results) 
    at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.DataFormWebPart.ExecuteTransform(XslCompiledTransform xslCompiledTransform, XsltArgumentList xmlArguments, Boolean bDeferExecuteTransform) 
    at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.DataFormWebPart.PrepareAndPerformTransform(Boolean bDeferExecuteTransform)

Lync monitoring reports - images are missing

After some analysis we found an error in SSRS logs:

reportrendering!ReportServer_0-137!ffc!06/10/2015-12:33:19:: e ERROR: Throwing Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.RenderingObjectModelException: , Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.RenderingObjectModelException: A generic error occurred in GDI+. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException: A generic error occurred in GDI+.

   at System.Drawing.Image.Save(Stream stream, ImageCodecInfo encoder, EncoderParameters encoderParams)

   at Microsoft.Reporting.Chart.WebForms.Chart.Save(Stream imageStream, ChartImageFormat format)

   at Microsoft.ReportingServices.OnDemandReportRendering.ChartMapper.GetImage(ImageType imageType)

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---;

Apparently gdiplus.dll was not up-to-date on the SQL SSRS server. After Windows 2012 R2 patching the problem was solved.

Can not sign-in from IPhone 6 to Lync after goDaddy certificate renewal

Having an issue only with IPhones. Android and Windows full client works ok. goDaddy renewal process change our root from old one to G2.

IPhone logs contans:

2015-06-10 14:09:27.341 Lync[584:35b6d9dc] ERROR APPLICATION CUcwaAutoDiscoveryGetUserUrlOperation.cpp/325:Request failed.  Error - E_SslError (E2-2-2)

and

2015-06-10 14:09:27.376 Lync[584:35b6d9dc] INFO UI CMUIUtil.mm/387:Mapping error code = 0x22020002, context = , type = 201
2015-06-10 14:09:27.377 Lync[584:35b6d9dc] INFO UI CMUIUtil.mm/1691:Mapped error message is 'Désolé... Nous ne parvenons pas vérifier le certificat du serveur. Contactez votre équipe de support technique.

or in English

We can’t verify the certificate from the server. Please contact your support team.


The issue was solved by installing goDaddy G2 CA intermediate certificate alongside with new certificate in Reverse Proxy and reboot.

Refer:  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2965499

Sonus SBC SIP message manipulation

Nice article explaining how to build SIP manipulation rules in Sonus:

http://dmunified.com/2015/02/17/manipulate-to-header-field-into-invite-request-line-uri/


Must do for some SIP operators in Singapore. they require RequestURI to be formated in certain way, and P-asserted to be the same as TO field.

Raw Message Rule

Match Regex: @172.31.119.249:5060;user=phone
Replace Regex: @xxx.net.sg;user=phone

Header Rule

Header Action: Modify
Header Name: p-asserted-identity
Header Ordinal Number: 1st

Header Value: Modify
Type of Value: Token
Value: from.uri

Polycom cx600 and cx3000 (LPE) limitations for multi domain implementations

http://blog.schertz.name/2013/08/lync-phone-edition-cu7-registration-issues/

CX600 does not msupport entires in SAN field (except of those outlook.com and lync.com) Hello Microsoft!

EWS issues in Lync client

http://uc-dude.com/2014/05/27/complete-guide-for-troubleshooting-lync-outlook-clients-integration/

In one of my cases, the solution was to make string of internalEWS empty in registry

 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync\sip_address@domain.con\Autodiscovery/InternalEwsUrl

Lync response group report is slow

To troubleshoot we would need to run SQL profiler. But here is some inforation re the same issue:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7e472c38-35ac-42cb-ad4a-a683eb0becac/response-group-usage-report-not-working?forum=lyncinterop

O365 federation

http://blogs.technet.com/b/compilations/archive/2014/04/15/office-365-single-sign-on-with-adfs-roadmap-design-implementation-adfs-high-availability-amp-the-choice-of-configuration-database-type-for-redundancy-steps-amp-faqs.aspx#.VSuvTvmsVqU

https://sfspug.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/office-365-single-sign-on-with-adfs.pptx


http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2014/04/28/how-to-install-adfs-2012-r2-for-office-365.aspx


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHMaQjAS0qo

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj710171.aspx

Looking for free HLB solution for Lync?

Here are some tools that I have tried and that are proven to work with Lync, Exchange and HTTP web:

http://www.zenloadbalancer.com

this guy you probably know - it is free KEMP (no cluster, 20 mbps limit)

http://freeloadbalancer.com

Heavy weight player from Open Source world:

http://www.haproxy.org

And something I have never tried, but it could be fun:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/load_balancing.html (Hello Igor!)

GetItemById SharePoint list function optimisation

Hello, a little magic for tonight. If you use custom code around your SharePoint, and you wonder why your code is slow on large document libraries , check out this article:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687949(v=office.12).aspx


Then search your code to see if you use GetItemById on items collection level. If you do you might accelerate your code 10x times by simply changing it to list level.

Example (red is not optimal code):

SPList _spList = spWeb.Lists.GetList(document.MossDocLibGuid, false);

         ///       SPListItemCollection listItemCollection = _spList.Items;

         ///       SPListItem item = listItemCollection.GetItemById(document.MossDocId);  

SPListItem item = _spList.GetItemById(document.MossDocId);  

Error installing Service Pack 1 Microsoft CRM 2013 Language pack

Having issues  with Service Pack 1 installation:

The given key was not present in the dictionary.


in the log file I can see:

12:05:48|  Error| System.Exception: Échec de l’action Microsoft.Crm.UpdateWrapper.MspInstallAction. ---> System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.

   at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)

   at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Update.HotFixArpEntryHandler.<>c__DisplayClass7.b__5(ArpEntryDescriptor entry)

   at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereListIterator`1.MoveNext()

   at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Update.HotFixArpEntryHandler.RemoveSupercededEntries(IEnumerable`1 arpEntries, Version minimumVersionToKeep)

   at Microsoft.Crm.UpdateWrapper.MspInstallAction.Do(IDictionary parameters)

   at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Shared.CrmAction.ExecuteAction(CrmAction action, IDictionary parameters, Boolean undo)

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---, Error, RetryCancel, Option1

some other people having the same issue; https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d1739486-e100-47cc-9145-7e0bdf333832/crm-2013-sp1-language-pack-installation-fails?forum=crm

My solution is to delete empty registry branches in UNINSTALL container and try again.

to get a following 

How to migrate CA from 2003 to 2012

Official procedure:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee126140(v=ws.10).aspx

Step-by-step:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2014/11/12/step-by-step-migrating-the-active-directory-certificate-service-from-windows-server-2003-to-2012-r2.aspx

Some scripts:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/pki/archive/2010/04/20/disaster-recovery-procedures-for-the-active-directory-certificate-services-adcs.aspx

Another blog:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/xdot509/

Visio 2013 - can not replace all words at one go in the diagram

I had an issue with Viso file where I could not edit a word inside a caption string. If you type you word it will delete while string. The same for Find and Replace.

The only way I could do it in bulk is to save as vsdx (xml format), open with 7zip, extract page1.xml, bulk replace in Notepad and inject file back to archive.

Ta-Da!

Some FIM links

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ff793470.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/399.forefront-identity-manager-resources.aspx

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff686264(WS.10).aspx

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff686263(v=ws.10).aspx

Some SCSM links

Personal View  (not possible, only admin can pre-create views)

Send email when analyst comment is set (http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2013/05/13/how-to-configure-notifications-for-assignment-re-assignment-as-well-as-action-log-and-user-comment-updates-for-incidents-and-service-requests-in-scsm.aspx)

Process for Languages https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh519587.aspx

Views vs  queues http://blog.acceleres.com/dude-where-are-my-queues-or-is-it-views/   

Number of fields shown in portal http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2011/11/08/request-offering-wizard-overview.aspx

Locales used by Microsoft https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964664.aspx

OPEN issue: Set Locale in AD then sync does not work in SCSM?

Create incident by email  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh519602  and http://scug.be/scsm/2010/01/07/configure-scsm-email-incident-support/

Update incidents by email http://www.systemcentercentral.com/forums-archive/topic/update-incidents-by-email/

SharePoint 2010 LVT

Nice and quick training video regarding Large Lists and issue of LVT limitation

https://support.office.microsoft.com/en-us/article/SharePoint-lists-V-Techniques-for-managing-large-lists-13456600-ff66-46ec-a2d2-91736d4a166e?section=2&CorrelationId=0f7b2a49-ba3d-4456-a043-3eb1f3048c89&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

SharePoint 2013 Search issues

I find this article as very correct in the analysis of Search issues on SP13:

http://platinumdogs.me/2014/01/07/controlling-search-noderunner-memory-usage-in-sharepoint-2013/

Although it is tempting to reduce memory of node runner this will result in noderunner out of memory error.

Leave it at zero or adjust carefully as suggested above to 1 or 2 GB.

Somme errors that you might see:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        .NET Runtime
Date:          29.01.2015 11:43:59
Event ID:      1026
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:    
Description:
Application: NodeRunner.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.OutOfMemoryException
Stack:
   at System.Runtime.Fx+IOCompletionThunk.UnhandledExceptionFrame(UInt32, UInt32, System.Threading.NativeOverlapped*)
   at System.Threading._IOCompletionCallback.PerformIOCompletionCallback(UInt32, UInt32, System.Threading.NativeOverlapped*)

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          29.01.2015 11:43:59
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:    
Description:
Faulting application name: NodeRunner.exe, version: 15.0.4420.1017, time stamp: 0x506723c5
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18409, time stamp: 0x5315a05a
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x000000000000940d
Faulting process id: 0xe90
Faulting application start time: 0x01d03bb070ecf82a
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Search\Runtime\1.0\NodeRunner.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: bae00371-a7a3-11e4-b181-00155dfe9e6f


UPDATE: the issue is back again. This article here talks about finding out which com ponent is using memory http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kristopherloranger/archive/2014/03/24/sharepoint-2013-noderunner-exe-process-information.aspx

Exchange Online Autottendant and Lync OnPrem

To integrate Exchange Online AA with Lync, we need to create a contact

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg412978.aspx

Then get Identity, you can run run Get-CsExUmContact

but then if you try to call AA but sip, or number you will get an error (in Snooper).

SIP/2.0 500 Server Internal Error
ms-user-logon-data: RemoteUser
...
CSeq: 1 INVITE
ms-diagnostics: 15014;reason="Hosted Voicemail Policy assigned to the user is not fully configured. Destination or Organization might be null";source="xxxx";appName="ExumRouting"
Server: ExumRouting/5.0.0.0

You will want to run another command to assign policy to this contact.

Grant-cshostedvoicemailpolicy –identity “paste-your-Identity as you see in get command above” –policyname O365

O365 is your policy as you defined in Exchange Online - refer to https://ahandyblog.wordpress.com/cloud-technologies/office-365-unified-messaging-with-lync-2013-on-premise/

SharePoint 2010 An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action

In case of an error similair to this:

Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (7d825bde-c4d8-475c-b3f6-c52911242f33).

Reason: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance was updated by ad\svcWSSAdmin, in the OWSTIMER (4472) process, on machine S2010.  View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.

Technical Support Details:
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance was updated by AD\svcWSSAdmin, in the OWSTIMER (4472) process, on machine S2010.  View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize()
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)


Use cache cleanup procedure as described
http://www.social-point.com/sharepoint-2010-event-id-6482-application-server-administration-job-failed-for-service-instance-microsoft-office-server-search-administration-searchserviceinstance


quote:

Stop the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service (Found in Windows Services)

Navigate to the cache folder
In Windows Server 2008, the configuration cache is in the following location:
Drive:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config
In Windows Server 2003, the configuration cache is in the following location:
Drive:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config
Locate the folder that has the file "Cache.ini"
(Note: The Application Data folder may be hidden. To view the hidden folder, change the folder options as required)

Back up the Cache.ini file.

Delete all the XML configuration files in the GUID folder. Do this so that you can verify that the GUID folder is replaced by new XML configuration files when the cache is rebuilt.

Note When you empty the configuration cache in the GUID folder, make sure that you do not delete the GUID folder and the Cache.ini file that is located in the GUID folder.

Double-click the Cache.ini file.

On the Edit menu, click Select All. On the Edit menu, click Delete. Type 1, and then click Save on the File menu. On the File menu, click Exit.

Start the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service

Note The file system cache is re-created after you perform this procedure. Make sure that you perform this procedure on all servers in the server farm.

Make sure that the Cache.ini file in the GUID folder now contains its previous value. For example, make sure that the value of the Cache.ini file is not 1.

- See more at: http://www.social-point.com/sharepoint-2010-event-id-6482-application-server-administration-job-failed-for-service-instance-microsoft-office-server-search-administration-searchserviceinstance#sthash.PDz2zKwa.dpuf