Office Web Apps Get-OfficeWebAppsMachine shows Unhealthy

try to install HTTP activation on the WAC server

Add-WindowsFeature NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45

retry again after 15 minutes Get-OfficeWebAppsMachine

Employee Directory in SharePoint 2013

http://www.sharepointconfig.com/2013/05/how-to-create-a-simple-sharepoint-2013-people-directory/

SCO Runbook tester gives connection failed error or other access error

For some tasks Runbook tester needs to be run as admin - open the Runboor designer with admin elevated access and then run a tester from inside.

SCSM authoring tool

http://blogs.technet.com/b/wincat/archive/2013/03/11/extending-the-service-request-form-and-exposing-the-request-offering-field-in-system-center-2012-service-manager.aspx

SCSM incident management

http://blogs.technet.com/b/antoni/archive/2012/08/13/service-manager-101-part-1-incident-management.aspx

Hybrid Lync explained

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=8D22925062E717B6!332&authkey=!ALXt6KNP7xAd138

http://imaucblog.com/archive/2013/05/10/step-by-step-guide-enabling-split-domain-within-office-365-lync-online/

SCSM portal is blank?

http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2012/05/04/faq-why-is-my-self-service-portal-service-catalog-blank.aspx

http://windowsitpro.com/system-center/q-i-installed-system-center-service-manager-2012-web-portal-custom-ssl-certificate-so-

Long distance call for Montreal

here is the link of service that will tell if you need to pay for the call to 450 area from Montreal:

http://www.localcallingguide.com/lca_rcdist.php?npa1=514&nxx1=874&npa2=450&nxx2=292

Some free stuff for SCSM from Cireson

http://cireson.com/cireson-store/

Nice SCSM blog

http://www.buchatech.com/category/microsoft/system-center/scsm/

SCORCH demo JGS

http://blog.coretech.dk/jgs/teched-2014-north-america-system-center-orchestrator-runbook-design-101-video-downloads/

SC DPM - registry black magic for auto healing

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2011/06/06/how-to-use-and-troubleshoot-the-auto-heal-features-in-dpm-2010.aspx

Lync connectivity analyser loop and dump

We had an issue with certificates on Lync frontend, as a result the Lync connectivity analyser (a program, not the online one) was trying to reach WebTicket and after rejection was doing that in circles until it dums out.

The error:

Cookie  found in autodiscover response: StatusCode: 401, ReasonPhrase: 'Unauthorized', Version: 1.1, Content: System.Net.Http.StreamContent, Headers:

{

  Connection: Keep-Alive

  X-Ms-diagnostics: 28032;source="xxx";reason="The web ticket is invalid.";faultcode="wsse:InvalidSecurityToken"

  X-MS-WebTicketURL: https://xxxxx/WebTicket/WebTicketService.svc

  X-MS-WebTicketSupported: cwt,saml

  X-MS-Server-Fqdn: xxx

  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

  Cache-Control: private

  Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 07:17:36 GMT

  Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5

  X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

  Content-Length: 4966

  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

}

It seems that after some test with Bindings in IIS, the certificates were not aligned. 

The soltion is to re- request  Lync frontend default certificate and make sure we get one certificate for all 3 services (except obviously OAuth).

Refer also to: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Certificate-requirements-996da98f