• Testing Lync server 2013 external URLs from Lync clients (external web service, meet, office webapps, lyncdiscover and dialin)

    Hi there, In this blog post, I’ll be talking about another powershell based tool which could be used to check name resolution, TCP layer connectivity and SSL/TLS negotiation for various URLs that are accessible through your reverse proxy which...
  • Testing Exchange EWS service accessibility from internal/external Lync clients

    Hi there, In this blog post, I’ll be talking about a powershell based tool which could be used to check Exchange EWS connectivity especially from external Lync clients where the client might not be able to access Exchange EWS and hence cannot...
  • How it works on the wire: IIS HTTP Client certificate authentication

    I collaborated with a colleague recently where the IE client was failing to authenticate to IIS and I was requested to analyze a few network traces collected while reproducing the issue. The main issue was that the client (IE) wasn’t able to successfully...
  • DNS SRV lookup from Powershell

    [After posting this blog, I have realized that Powershell 3.0 already provides a built-in cmdlet called Resolve-DnsName which could help you make any kind of DNS queries. But I still wanted to leave this blog post active for those who might want to see...
  • Testing STUN/TURN server connectivity from external networks through UDP 3478 by using Powershell

    Hi there, While working on a Lync connectivity test tool, I developed a STUN/TURN server connectivity test script in powershell which might be handy when you want to make sure that your external clients will be able to communicate with STUN/TURN...