Following on from this post, which contains more of an intro into Virtual Load Balancers and Lync, here is how to deploy a Kemp Virtual LoadMaster in VMware ESXi. Firstly you will need to download the relevant files from Kemp. Kindly they offer ...

Two great upcoming events, hope to see you at either, or even better both!  MUCUGL: April 2012 – It’s all about Lync Call Flow This April MUCUGL has partnered with the kind folks at Acme Packet – a leading manufacturer of Lync qualified ...

I write a number of PowerShell scripts for internal use and customers. You may already know, PowerShell has a concept of Execution Policies. These are a security feature of PowerShell to reduce the chance of someone executing a malicious script ...

I hit an issue today I haven’t hit before. I was deploying a net vx gateway and I hit the following error when trying to upload my config: “CRITICAL ERROR: IP Adapter #1 Interface ip0 has an invalid IP address: IP address within internal ...

Windows 8 Server beta is now available for public download. You can get the bits here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx And here is the what’s new information: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/v8-default.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh831769.aspx Here ...

Here are some quick screenshots walking through the setup of a UX1000 with the SBA module for Lync. From a setup point of view you can think of Gateways with SBA’s as 2 devices in one. Where net particularly excels is making it nice and easy ...

For those of you who might be interested, an article I wrote has just been published on Microsoft NextHop. It goes through the steps of using Netmon to capture and decrypt Lync traffic for advanced troubleshooting. http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2012/02/15/how-to-decrypt-lync-2010-tls-traffic-using-microsoft-network-monitor.aspx NextHop ...

Info shamelessly copied from Justin’s blog , it would be great to see you there: “ UC Expo is on again this year on the 6th and 7th of March at Olympia in London. It’s the premier UC event in the UK/EMEA for vendors and end-user customers ...