PowerShell Module for Sonus SBC 1000-2000

So while not an official release from Sonus, it looks fantastic and I will be using for backups more than anything else..

PowerShell Module for Sonus SBC 1000-2000


Nice work Vikas Jaswal (http://www.allthingsuc.co.uk), ill be keeping an eye on your blog from now on..

SIP_E_AUTH_NTLMMISMATCH

Have come across this error again today whilst deploying an 2013 Edge server and users wont able to log in.

In the SIP traces from the Edge server after the usual 3 attempts or registration, the client wont login and one of the last message in snooper is:

ms-diagnostics: 1000;reason="Final handshake failed";HRESULT="0xC3E93EE4 (SIP_E_AUTH_NTLMMISMATCH)";source="FE Server"

The fix is to change the local security policy for the Lync servers to allow for no minimum for NTLM SSP session security.

From the local security policies on the Lync servers remove the tick from the "Require 128-bit encryption"

 

Office Web Apps Server Troubleshooting

So today I was troubleshooting a deployment of an Office Web Apps Server (OWAS) and need to check to see if it was working.  After some research I came across a TechNet I found this nice article.

Validating the Configuration of Office Web Apps Server

Basically there are three (3) URL used for testing..

• https://Internal FQDN/hosting/discovery will give a XML configuration file for you to view/download
• https://Internal FQDN/m/Presenter.aspx?a=0&e=true& will give the following error message

• https://External FQDN/m/Presenter.aspx?a=0&e=true& will also give the following error 

Once the Lync Server Web Conferencing (RTCDATAMCU) has started you can check the Lync event viewer for event id "41032" this will list the internal and external presenter and attendee pages that we tested previously in this post.

If the event id 41032 does not have the internal and external configured, check the configuration of your Office Web Apps Farm.

The example below has the internal URL missing from the 41032 event id, as I had the Office Web Farm configured for only SSL and I had typo'd the internal URL to only be http://.......

Once I removed the Office Web Apps Farm (Remove-OfficeWebAppsMachine) and re-created the farm the 41032 event id showed the correct URL.

As I find more ways to test the Office Web Apps Server setup I will update this post..

SQL Reporting Services with Mirrored Database, Keyword not Supported "failoverpartner"

It looks like the documentation for configuring the reporting services for Lync are wrong on the TechNet site.

The article is located here, and mentioned the connection string to be "Data source=(local)\archinst;FailoverPartner=atl-mirror-001\archinst;initial catalog=LcsCDR"

When you change the value to be the correct settings for your environment, I was getting a "Keyword not supported" error as seen below.

After a quick Google search, found an article on Doug Dietterick's Blog, Issue Deploying Lync Server 2013 Monitoring Reports to SQL Mirror.

It turned out to be that the keyword "FailoverPartner" is actually two words "Failover Partner".  Once this was updated connection was all good.

Lync Software Versions

So my plan for this page is to update when new LPE software is released, i have been trying to track down version number, and this is to stop me from having to search all the time..

LPE Updates	Software version
CU #	Polycom CX700 and LG-Nortel 8540	Polycom CX500, CX600, and CX3000	Aastra 6721ip and 6725ip	HP 4110 and 4120
September 2016	4.0.7577.4494	4.0.7577.4512	4.0.7577.4512	4.0.7577.4512
CU17 - December 2015		4.0.7577.4488	4.0.7577.4487	4.0.7577.4487
CU16 – May 2015	4.0.7577.4463	4.0.7577.4463	4.0.7577.4463	4.0.7577.4463
CU15 – October 2014		4.0.7577.4455	4.0.7577.4455	4.0.7577.4455
CU14 – August 2014	4.0.7577.4451	4.0.7577.4451	4.0.7577.4451	4.0.7577.4451
CU13 – July 2014		4.0.7577.4450	4.0.7577.4450	4.0.7577.4450
CU12 - April 2014
	4.0.7577.4444	4.0.7577.4444	4.0.7577.4444	4.0.7577.4444
CU11 - January 2014	4.0.7577.4420	4.0.7577.4420	4.0.7577.4420	4.0.7577.4420
CU10 - October 2013	4.0.7577.4411	4.0.7577.4411	4.0.7577.4411	4.0.7577.4411
		(Re-issued)	(Re-issued)	(Re-issued)
		4.0.7577.4414	4.0.7577.4414	4.0.7577.4414
CU9 - July 2013	4.0.7577.4397	4.0.7577.4397	4.0.7577.4397	4.0.7577.4397
CU8 - April 2013	4.0.7577 4387	4.0.7577 4387	4.0.7577 4387	4.0.7577 4387
CU7 - December 2012	4.0.7577.4363	4.0.7577.4366 (Re-issued)	4.0.7577.4366	4.0.7577.4366
		4.0.7577.4372
CU6 - June 2012	4.0.7577.4100	4.0.7577.4100	4.0.7577.4100	4.0.7577.4100
CU5 – March 2012	4.0.7577.4066	4.0.7577.4066	4.0.7577.4066	4.0.7577.4066
CU4 - November 2011	4.0.7577.4047	4.0.7577.4047	4.0.7577.4047	4.0.7577.4047
CU3 - July 2011	4.0.7577.296	4.0.7577.296	4.0.7577.296
CU2 - April 2011	4.0.7577.250	4.0.7577.250	4.0.7577.250
CU1 - January 2011	4.0.7577.107	4.0.7577.107	4.0.7577.107

http://blogs.technet.com/b/nettracer/archive/2013/07/05/lync-client-and-server-version-numbers.aspx
Below is a blog post from TechNet with some information about server and client versions.

How to Verify if Lync Server 2013 Database Updates Completed Successfully.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dodeitte/archive/2013/07/02/how-to-verify-if-lync-server-2013-database-updates-completed-successfully.aspx

Update:
Was looking for Office Web Apps software versions today, and came across Wictor Wilen blog.
http://www.wictorwilen.se/WACVersions

TLS Schannel Errors

Had an issue the other day and it took me awhile to find out what the TLS Schannel error codes meant.

The exact error message I was receiving was:

After doing some "googling" I was able to find a nice list of the Schannel error message:

Error Code	Description
0	CLOSE NOTIFY
10	UNEXPECTED MESSAGE
20	BAD RECORD MAC
21	DECRYPTION FAILED
22	RECORD OVERFLOW
30	DECOMPRESSION FAIL
40	HANDSHAKE FAILURE
42	BAD CERTIFICATE
43	UNSUPPORTED CERT
44	CERTIFICATE REVOKED
45	CERTIFICATE EXPIRED
46	CERTIFICATE UNKNOWN
47	ILLEGAL PARAMETER
48	UNKNOWN CA
49	ACCESS DENIED
50	DECODE ERROR
51	DECRYPT ERROR
60	EXPORT RESTRICTION
70	PROTOCOL VERSION
71	INSUFFIENT SECURITY
80	INTERNAL ERROR
90	USER CANCELED
100	NO RENEGOTIATION
110	UNSUPPORTED EXT

From the error message i was receiving in the Windows System Event Viewer we can see that the error code was/is "42" which relates to a "BAD CERTIFICATE"

From here I re-generated the certificate on the Lync gateway, and restarted the Lync SBA that was associated with the trunk and the Schannel error and related mediation Server errors cleared.

Reference Link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd721886(v=vs.85).aspx