• Troubleshooting Lync 2013 PowerPoint sharing issue: “There was a problem verifying the certificate from the server. Please contact your support team.”

    So you recently deployed Lync Server 2013 and managed to deploy Office 2013 Web Apps (or also known as WAC) server that facilitates PowerPoint sharing. The users are happy because now they can share PowerPoint decks with animations and videos with Lync...
  • Preinstalling SQL Express 2012 SP1 for Lync Server 2013

    Continuing the previous blog post ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/lyncativity/archive/2012/06/14/preinstalling-sql-express-2008-r2-for-lync-server-2010-rtclocal-instance.aspx ), the same method can also be applied for Lync Server 2013. Lync Server 2013...
  • Preinstalling SQL Express 2008 R2 for Lync Server 2010 RTCLOCAL instance

    With the central management store and topology concepts introduced with Lync Server 2010, any instance of Lync Server 2010 will run Local Configuration Store that is hosted by an installation of SQL Express 2008 named instance called RTCLOCAL . The topology...