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1. #Web browser link for skype for business server update#
2. #Web browser link for skype for business server windows 8.1#
3. #Web browser link for skype for business server Offline#
4. #Web browser link for skype for business server windows 7#

The method of obtaining a Ticket allows you to prove your identity once, and receive a unique ticket that is valid for a set length of time, allowing you to simply pass your ticket in subsequent requests, making it much quicker and less resource intensive to make a connection without having to go through the entire re-authentication process each time (compared with NTLM).Īlong with the 401 Unauthorised, the server returns with the following is a SOAP Message exchange that uses WS-Trust (an extension of the WS-Security specification) that provides a framework for exchanging security tokens and to establish a trust relationship. Also NTLM over HTTP is quite bloated requiring each connection to authenticate fully. GET which point we get HTTP Response of 401 Unauthorised letting us know that authentication is required, but it doesn’t accept any of the traditional methods of authentication, you cannot pass NTLM or Kerberos, as both of those require connection to AD to verify the user’s credentials, this would increase the reliance on AD, and would impose additional overhead for each connection attempt. (I won’t be covering SRV Records in this article).Īnd the client then tries HTTP (Port 80) first and then HTTPS (Port 443) for each FQDN and (optionally) appends the SIP URI in the HTTP GET request as follows

The client discovery process involves looking for the following DNS Entries in order. I won’t go into too much detail just yet, as the basics are well documented. With this article I intend to take it just that little bit further. There are plenty of fantastic articles around for describing how LyncDiscover plays a part, and the general steps in big picture of the client discovery process. into a browser and seen a JSON or XML formatted response and thought. The best I’ve found is Lync Server 2010 – Mobility Deep Dive – Autodiscover Service on the NextHop TechNet Blog.Įverybody who’s reading this has at some point, manually typed Over the past couple of weeks I’ve come to realise there is very little in the way of detailed information on LyncDiscover / Auto Discovery process past a certain point. Sneaky screenshot of “Lyncer – Lync Tester”. I finally cracked, and set myself on a mission to write my own application, (this will be released in another blog post – coming soon).

#Web browser link for skype for business server windows 8.1#

However it still crashes on my Windows 8.1 machine.

#Web browser link for skype for business server update#

** UPDATE ** – NextHop released an updated version of the Lync Connectivity Analyser shortly after I posted this. I’ve regularly checked to see if Lync Connectivity Analyser has been fixed, and for the past 6 months it’s crashed every time.

#Web browser link for skype for business server windows 7#

There appears to be hope if you are running Windows 7 or Windows 8.0, which is to remove a hot-fix (for more information see here, and here) to get the tool to actually run (with limited success it seems). NET 4.5.1, so if you’re running Windows 8.1 (like I am), there’s no hope until a new version of the tool is released as you can’t roll back to an earlier version of.

Sounds useful, but I’ve never been able to get it to actually work – there is a seemingly well-known bug between it and.

#Web browser link for skype for business server Offline#

Some of you may have also come across the Lync Connectivity Analyzer, it’s an Offline tool that runs on your PC, and is primarily designed to troubleshoot connection issues with Windows Store App and others that use the LyncDiscover service. Very useful, but not very controllable, and it’s only for external use. It works by stepping through the discovery and connection process. I’m sure everybody has used Microsoft’s Remote Connectivity Analyzer for Exchange / ActiveSync as well as Lync / OCS.