Monthly Archives: September 2014

How to automatically add contacts to the Lync contact list.

The best contact list is created by the user themselves, but sometimes customers ask for a pre-populated Lync contact list. The only fully by Microsoft supported solution uses the team members from AD and adds them as contacts to a user’s contact list with “Set-CsPrivacyConfiguration -Identity Global -AutoInitiateContact $True”, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2801016. You can also use Exchange… Read More »

What is a Session Border Controller (SBC) and Do I Need It? (repost)

This article has been published before on the now deprecated NextHop. I still get a lot of responses, so reposting to ensure that is stays available.   This article discusses the functionality of Session Border Controllers, including scenarios where they can be used and how they can be implemented.   A Session Border Controller (SBC) can be used… Read More »