How to search user in Lync server 2010 control panel?

How to search user in Lync server 2010 control panel?

You can search for users by using the Lync Server Control Panel or the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.

To search for one or more users via Lync server control panel-

1.   From a user account that is assigned to the CsUserAdministrator role or the CsAdministrator role, log on to any computer in your internal deployment.

2.   Open a browser window, and then enter the Admin URL to open the Lync Server Control Panel. For details about the different methods you can use to start Lync Server Control Panel.

3.   In the left navigation bar, click Users.

4.   In the Search users box, type all or the first portion of the display name, first name, last name, SAM account name, SIP address, or line URI of the user account that you want to search for, and then click Find.

5.   (Optional) Specify additional search criteria to narrow the results:

     a. Click the expand arrow button in the upper-right corner of the screen above Search  results, and then click Add Filter.

    b. Enter the user property by typing it or clicking the arrow in the drop-down list to select a user property.

   c. In the Equal to list, click Equal to or Not equal to.

   d. In the text box, type the search criteria you want to use to filter search results, and then click Find.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Software and Hardware requirement.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Software and Hardware requirement.

Hardware Requirement:-

•  Lync Server 2010 is available only in 64-bit., which requires 64-bit hardware and 64-bit editions of Windows Server.
•  Lync Server 2010 is not available in a 32-bit version.
•  Lync Server 2010 required multiple processor groups (dynamic hardware partitioning)

Software Requirement:-Operating Systems for Server Roles

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 supports the 64-bit editions of the following operating systems:
•  The Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard operating system (required) or latest service pack (recommended)
•  The Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise operating system (required) or latest service pack (recommended)
•  The Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter operating system (required) or latest service pack (recommended)
•  The Windows Server 2008 Standard operating system with Service Pack 2 (SP2) (required) or latest service pack (recommended)
•  The Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system with SP2 (required) or latest service pack (recommended)
•  The Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system with SP2 (required) or latest service pack (recommended).
•  To deploy Lync Server 2010 on a computer that is running either the Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter operating system or the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter   operating system with Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Lync Server 2010 is not supported on the following operating systems:

•  The Server Core installation option of Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008
•  The Windows Web Server 2008 R2 operating system or the Windows Web Server 2008 operating system
•  Windows Server 2008 R2 HPC Edition or Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition

Backend server (SQL) requirement:-•  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express database software, which is installed by default when you install Lync Server 2010, to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express.
•  The SQL instance name is RTC for a Standard Edition server back-end database and RTCLocal for the local configuration store (on each server role).
•  A server running Lync Server 2010 Standard Edition has both SQL instances, and each needs to be upgraded separately.

Event id: 7034

An event is any significant occurrence in the system or in a program that requires users to be notified, or an entry added to a log. The Event Log Service records application, security, and system events in Event Viewer. With the event logs in Event Viewer, you can obtain information about your hardware, software, and system components, and monitor security events on a local or remote computer. Event logs can help you identify and diagnose the source of current system problems, or help you predict potential system problems.

Today I am trying to collect the information based on Event id: 7034 so that it would be useful for the people to get the information at one place.

1.       Alert Name: User Code Host service fails to start

Source: Service Control Manager

Event ID: 7034

Level: Error

Article: Microsoft KB:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2509267

http://xblogs.kompas-xnet.si/post/SharePoint-User-Code-Service-not-starting.aspx

Resolution Mentioned:

Set the data value of ProcessNameFormat in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfProc\Performance to 1

2.      Alert Name: Service instance provisioning failed

Summary: An attempt to start or stop a service instance failed on a server in your farm because the service instance provisioning failed.

Resolution: Start the service (Please refer the following for detailed documentation)

Article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff519517.aspx

3.      Alert Name: Service Stop Operations

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

Description: Service Control Manager (SCM) stops services and driver services. It also reports when services terminate unexpectedly or fail to restart after it takes corrective action.

Message: The %1 service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this %2 time(s).

Article: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/windows-server-2008-event-id-7034-service-stop-operations.aspx

Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756361(WS.10).aspx  

4.      Alert Name: The Windows Firewall has detected an application listening for incoming traffic.

Event Type: Failure Audit

Event Source: Security

Event Category: Detailed Tracking

Article: http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=861&eventno=4615&source=Security&phase=1

5.      Log name: Application

Source: SharePoint Foundation

Task Category: Web controls

user: domain name\usernaccount name

Description: Load control template file file/_controltemplate/taxonomypicket.ascx failed

Article: http://todd-carter.com/post/2010/05/03/Help-Wanted-Taxonomy-Picker.aspx

Event ID 8214: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”

Problem Description

-You are trying to Check-Out documents from the document library where document check-out is required from the SharePoint site on your SharePoint farm, you are getting following error message

“Object reference not set to an instance of an object”

–You are unable to open and edit any office documents

–You are not facing the issue on the document library where check-out is not required to edit the documents

–Issue started to occur when you installed WSS 3.0 SP2 on you SharePoint server

–Under Event Viewer–Application you are getting event ID 8214

Event Type:        Error

Event Source:    Windows SharePoint Services 3

Event Category: Topology

Event ID:              8214

Date:                     3/20/2012

Time:                     4:25:15 AM

User:                     N/A

Computer:          nasdac

Description:

The description for Event ID (8214) in Source (Windows SharePoint Services 3) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: A request was made for a URL, http://novashare, which has not been configured in Alternate Access Mappings.  Some links may point to the Alternate Access URL for the default zone, http://novadc2.  Review the Alternate Access mappings for this Web application at http://nasdac

: 13651/_admin/AlternateUrlCollections.aspx and consider adding http://nasdac as a Public Alternate Access URL if it will be used frequently.  Help on this error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=114854.

Resolution:

1.       Open you Central Administration site and go to “operations”

2.      Look for “Alternate Access Mappings”

3.      In the page you will find “Alternate Access Mapping Collection” and it will say “Show All”

4.      Click on the small arrow point downwards on this “Show All” location and you will get “Change Alternate Access Mapping Collection”

5.      Go ahead and choose the Web Application which is responsible for the problem site

6.      You will see that there is a URL already showing in “Default” zone

7.      You need to specify the URL which is giving you problem in the “Intranet” zone. So it will see like this:

Default: http://sharepointmagic

Intranet: http://myspinventions.org

8.     Performed IISRESET

Now everything should be working fine, you should be able to check-out and edit the office documents

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues J

Sharepoint custom permission levels

The decision to customize permission levels is less straightforward than the decision to customize SharePoint groups. If you customize the permissions assigned to a particular permission level, you must keep track of that change, verify that it works for all groups and sites affected by that change, and ensure that the change does not negatively affect your security or your server capacity or performance.

Note

You should not customize the default permission levels if your organization has security or other concerns about a particular permission and wants to make that permission unavailable for all users assigned to the permission level or levels that include that permission. In this case, you should turn off this permission for all Web applications in your server farm, rather than change all of the permission levels. To manage permissions for a Web application, in Central Administration, on the Application Management page, in the Application Security section, click User permissions for Web application.

If you need to make several changes to a particular permission level, it is better to create a custom permission level that includes all of the permissions you need.

You might want to create additional permission levels if any of the following applies:

1.       You want to exclude several permissions from a particular permission level.

2.      You want to define a unique set of permissions for a new permission level.

To create a permission level, you can copy an existing permission level and then make changes, or you can create a permission level and then select the permissions that you want to include.

Customize an existing permission level

If the custom permission level that you want is nearly identical to an existing default permission level and you don't need to use the default permission level, you can customize the default permission level to include or exclude permissions that you do or do not need.

1. On the Site Settings page, under Users and Permissions, click Advanced permissions.

2. On the toolbar, click Settings, and then click Permission Levels.

3. In the list of permission levels, click the name of the permission level you want to customize.

4. On the Add a Permission Level page, in the Name box, type a name for the new permission level.

5. Click Submit.

Copy an existing permission level

If the custom permission level that you want is similar to an existing default permission level, and you need to use both the default permission level and your custom permission level, you can copy the default permission level, and then modify the copy and save it as a new permission level.

1. On the Site Settings page, under Users and Permissions, click Advanced permissions.

2. On the toolbar, click Settings, and then click Permission Levels.

3. In the list of permission levels, click the name of the permission level you want to copy.

4. At the bottom of the page, click Copy Permission Level.

5. On the Copy Permission Level page, in the Name box, type a name for the new permission level.

6. In the Description box, type a description for the new permission level.

7. In the list of permissions, select or clear the check boxes to add permissions to or remove permissions from the permission level.

8. Click Create.

Create a permission level

If there is no permission level similar to the one you need, you can create one and include just the permissions that you need.

1. On the Site Settings page, under Users and Permissions, click Advanced permissions.

2. On the toolbar, click Settings, and then click Permission Levels.

3. On the toolbar, click Add a Permission Level.

4. On the Add a Permission Level page, in the Name box, type a name for the new permission level.

5. In the Description box, type a description for the new permission level.

6. In the list of permissions, select the check boxes to add permissions to the permission level.

7. Click Create.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know.
I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, thank u

What is Central Management Store (CMS) on Microsoft Lync Server 2010?

What is Central Management Store (CMS) on Microsoft Lync Server 2010?

Central Management Store (CMS), which holds information about all the roles and settings in the deployment and it, is newly introduced in Lync Server 2010

CMS replaces the various data stores that were used in OCS. The benefit of this Central Management

Store is that once the topology is defined and published, every installation simply pulls from the defined configuration.

Advantages of CMS:-

Server management centralized, No need to connect server remotely.

 CMS replaced OCS Console. This minimizes administrator input and allows automated deployment.

Certificates are requested and deployed and the fact that the Edge server role can now be centrally managed.

The administrator no longer has to connect remotely to that server to manage it locally.

Available flavour of Lync Server 2010

1.       Lync  2010 Standard Edition (Runs on single server)

2.      Lync 2010 Enterprise Edition.

Like many Microsoft server applications, Lync has a Standard and an Enterprise Edition.

The Standard Edition is fully functional but runs on a single server, using a SQL Express back-end database. It is still supported by other roles, such as the Edge, Monitoring, and Archiving roles, which would still run on other physical server hardware. The supporting roles don’t have a definition of Standard or Enterprise; they simply support the deployed front-end servers. The Enterprise Edition allows for higher availability and more scalability of the roles to support organizations with hundreds of thousands of users. Both versions of the software can be installed only on a Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 64-bit operating system (OS) and must be installed on the full GUI version of those operating systems rather than the Server Core version.

How Lync Server 2010 Central Management Store (CMS) look like?

Unable to Load Workbook + The workbook that you selected cannot be opened + The workbook may be in an unsupported file format, or it may be corrupt

Excel services work with Excel 2007 and allows you to share, load, calculate Excel workbooks on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 portals and dashboards. You can share an entire Workbook or just few parts of it like charts, tables etc. By using a Web browser, end users can view and interact with the workbooks.

However, at times, when you publish a workbook to Excel Services and try to load it in a browser, you might run into an error message

Unable to Load Workbook

The workbook that you selected cannot be opened.

The workbook may be in an unsupported file format, or it may be corrupt.

Would you like to try and open this file in Excel?

How I resolved this issue:

1)   Remove the space character that is in front of the caret operator in the formula.

2)   Save the workbook in the non-XML binary workbook format (.xlsb). Then, publish the workbook to the server

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, thank u.

For more information about Excel Services, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:

1)   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms546696.aspx  

2)   http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101054761033.aspx

You do not have permissions to open this file on Excel Services

If you are troubled with the above errors in SharePoint while publishing and viewing the excel services forms in browser then I believe you are in the right place. I am not sure if my guidelines will solve your problem but at least it solved my issues.

Resolution:

1. In SharePoint Central Administration, go to 'Manage this farm's shared services'

2. Select your shared service. (Default is SharedServices1)

3. In 'Excel Services Settings' select Edit Excel Services settings.

4. Ensure that File Access method is Process Account. Click OK.

5. Back in 'Excel Services Settings' select 'Trusted File Locations'

6. Add a new Trusted file Location:

 > URL: Specify the report library or the entire portal

 > Location Type: Windows SharePoint Services

 > Children: Trusted

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know.

I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, thank u

Office documents prompting for credentials

Multiple users are suddenly facing problems while accessing sharepoint site.

SYMPTOMS:

Users are prompted for credentials when accessing Office documents via ISA. 

Customer is using Forms-Based Authentication [FBA] to authenticate external users.

ERROR MESSAGE:

None

ENVIRONMENT:

Office SharePoint Server 2007

CAUSE:

ISA defaults to a settings "Never use persistent cookies"

Resolution:

On the SharePoint site - 

On the properties of the SharePoint publishing rule on ISA, 

go to the following location - Listener - Forms - Advanced Form Options - Cookie Settings - Use 

Persistent Cookies - set this to “On All Computers” (the default setting is “Never use persistent cookies”)

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, thank you.

Excel 2010 articles, fixes and updates - Year 2011

This list contains all of the known Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, howtos, fixes, hotfixes, webcasts and updates of Microsoft Excel 2010 that have been released in Year 2011

2556041 Description of the Office updates: June 14, 2011 Q2556041 KB2556041 June 16, 2011

2555016 Excel 2010 may crash when using HP Printers Q2555016 KB2555016 June 13, 2011

2519799 When exporting an Excel spreadsheet as a PDF file, the page dimensions may change Q2519799 KB2519799 May 26, 2011

922850 You receive an error message when you try to open or to save a file type that was blocked by your registry policy settings in one of the Office 2010 programs, in one of the 2007 Office programs or in one of the Office 2003 programs Q922850 KB922850 May 23, 2011

922848 You receive an error message when you try to open a file type that was blocked by your registry policy settings in Excel 2010, Excel 2007 or Excel 2003 Q922848 KB922848 May 23, 2011

925757 How to disable hyperlink warning messages in 2007 Office programs and in Office 2010 programs Q925757 KB925757 May 20, 2011

2521018 Office Excel 2010 crashes when you programmatically print or print-preview a file Q2521018 KB2521018 May 19, 2011

2501584 Microsoft Security Advisory: Microsoft Office File Validation for Office 2003, 2007 Office, and Office 2010: April 12, 2011 Q2501584 KB2501584 May 19, 2011

2513337 An embedded image is resized when you paste it into an Excel 2010 workbook Q2513337 KB2513337 May 13, 2011

983047 An Office 2010 document opens in Protected View even though you enable the "Open Office documents as read/write while browsing" policy setting Q983047 KB983047 May 12, 2011

2545346 Description of the Office updates: May 10, 2011 Q2545346 KB2545346 May 10, 2011

2547338 Hyperlink to MHT File in Office Documents Fails to Load in Internet Explorer Q2547338 KB2547338 May 6, 2011

2528533 Office 2010 Cumulative Update for April 2011 Q2528533 KB2528533 April 28, 2011

2516490 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp): April 26, 2011 Q2516490 KB2516490 April 28, 2011

2516486 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (excel-x-none.msp, graph-x-none.msp): April 26, 2011 Q2516486 KB2516486 April 28, 2011

2516481 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (excel-x-none.msp, graph-x-none.msp, oart-x-none.msp, oartconv-x-none.msp): April 26, 2011 Q2516481 KB2516481 April 28, 2011

2516480 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (excel-x-none.msp): April 26, 2011 Q2516480 KB2516480 April 28, 2011

2513216 Microsoft Query lists user objects and system views in the query wizard Q2513216 KB2513216 April 28, 2011

2121306 A summary of the support information for Office 2010 programs that run on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems Q2121306 KB2121306 April 26, 2011

2464297 A Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint 2010 file does not open because of incorrect file associations Q2464297 KB2464297 April 22, 2011

2535422 Description of the Office updates: April 12, 2011 Q2535422 KB2535422 April 12, 2011

2489279 MS11-021: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel could allow remote code execution: April 12, 2011 Q2489279 KB2489279 April 12, 2011

2475876 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (excel-x-none.msp): February 22, 2011 Q2475876 KB2475876 April 12, 2011

2466146 MS11-021: Description of the security update for Excel 2010: April 12, 2011 Q2466146 KB2466146 April 12, 2011

2534497 Description of the guidelines for selecting the appropriate picture format in an Office program Q2534497 KB2534497 April 10, 2011

2534458 How to obtain the latest service pack for the 2007 Office suite Q2534458 KB2534458 April 10, 2011

2535767 OLAP Server Formatting results in DISCOVER command against all cubes Q2535767 KB2535767 April 8, 2011

2519419 How to obtain a new product key for a Microsoft Office suite Q2519419 KB2519419 April 7, 2011

983031 The DSUM and DCOUNT functions in Excel 2010 do not work with pivot tables Q983031 KB983031 April 6, 2011

983034 ATP function names are not automatically translated in Excel 2010 Q983034 KB983034 April 5, 2011

2458237 Error message when you try to open an Excel 2010 file on a 32-bit computer: "Excel cannot complete this task with available resources. Choose less data or close other applications." Q2458237 KB2458237 April 1, 2011

2520049 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp): March 13, 2011 Q2520049 KB2520049 March 30, 2011

2062934 Error inserting SmartArt: "The following file or files contain errors which prevent them from working."Q2062934 KB2062934 March 30, 2011

2528682 You cannot open .xls files with Microsoft Office Excel 2010 Q2528682 KB2528682 March 25, 2011

2475796 [SDP 3][2b9f8e72-b947-496e-b197-762a74fcaaf2] Excel Baseline AppLog, RegKeys, CheckSym Q2475796 KB2475796 March 22, 2011

2345338 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (excelc-x-none.msp, excel-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 Q2345338 KB2345338 March 22, 2011

926430 You are requested to "search Microsoft Office Online for "VBA Converters" when you try to open or save a workbook in Excel 2007 or Excel 2010 Q926430 KB926430 March 22, 2011

2503335 An ActiveX control does not reappear as expected in an Excel 2010 workbook when you unhide the columns that include the control Q2503335 KB2503335 March 21, 2011

2470235 You cannot save an auto-saved document without saving the auto-revision information when the AutoRecover feature is enabled in Excel 2010 Q2470235 KB2470235 March 21, 2011

2204028 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp): June 29, 2010 Q2204028 KB2204028 March 9, 2011

2493730 Office 2010 Cumulative Update for February 2011 Q2493730 KB2493730 February 28, 2011

2500863 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (excel-x-none.msp): February 22, 2011 Q2500863 KB2500863 February 24, 2011

983462 Prescriptive guidance for sequencing Office 2010 in Microsoft App-V Q983462 KB983462 February 24, 2011

2475875 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (excel-x-none.msp, graph-x-none.msp): February 22, 2011Q2475875 KB2475875 February 23, 2011

2273257 Office Application Custom Code Solutions Q2273257 KB2273257 February 21, 2011

2496739 A Microsoft Office application will crash if you run the Close or Quit method from the PowerPoint object model Q2496739 KB2496739 February 14, 2011

2479871 Security settings for graphic filters for Microsoft Office 2010, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Office XP Q2479871 KB2479871 January 20, 2011

2276904 Office Deployment Q2276904 KB2276904 January 12, 2011

2487346 Error: "The provided Secure Store target application is either incorrectly configured or does not exist" when saving a PowerPivot refresh schedule job Q2487346 KB2487346 January 10, 2011

2479673 Office 2010 Cumulative Update for December 2010 Q2479673 KB2479673 January 6, 2011