How to access Lync 2013 standard database?

Just trying to figure out how to access the SQL express database that gets installed during the Lync install. Is there a default SA password or group that i can put myself in? When i installed all the databases were thrown all over the different drives.
I want to clean that up.
Thanks!

Three database instances are created with Standard edition Lync. Check out RTC, RTCLocal, and LyncLocal. Everything you need should be in there. Make sure you run as admin when accessing these databases if you're attempting to access
them from the Front End itself.
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Lync 2013- Standard Edition - Persistent Chat

What is the capacity of the Persistent Chat if it is collocated on Lync 2013 Standard edition front end ?
ie, number of chat rooms /usage?
In a Lync 2013 standard edition deployment if Persistent Chat is on separate server, can the SQL be offloaded to central SQL cluster enviornment or it will be held on the local server?

I haven't seen a chart that really defines the capacity, and it's difficult to measure because it's difficult to say how active the rooms will be or how much content you'll generate. That much is different from organization to organization.
There are some guidelines in general here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg615006(v=ocs.15).aspx but they don't really touch the standard model.
The pChat database can be offloaded to a central SQL cluster if you'd prefer, there are no requirements to collocate it with the local Lync databases.
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Lync 2013 standard edition server disadvantages

I have 3000 users, client is so cost effective , wanna insisting on Lync 2013 standard edition server. no enterprise voice
Feature required :- IM.presence, A/V conf, persistence chat, external access.
planned servers :- 1 Standard server in DC, 1 in DR. 1 edge server in DC and 1 in DR
1. if i make a pool of standard servers, then will it serve as HA, if yes how much time wil take for failover and what would be the impact on users?
2. If complete DC is down how mch time would take for fail-over and what is the procedure, impact on users?
3. can i collocate persistence chat role on standard edition? any limitation? how backend sizing would be for persistence chat as sql express would be there
4. can i suggest any better solution with standard servers where HA in DC .

For 3000 users Standard Edition will be fine. Use the capacity planner to size out your environment. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36828
1. It won't really serve as HA, as pool pairing is the only option it's more of a DR solution. The RTO for a pool failover is 30mins. So it could take anywhere up to 30mins. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205079.aspx
2. Same as above. Here is how you failover http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204678.aspx
3. Yes, you can co-locate Persistent Chat on the Front End with Standard Edition. If sized correctly, there should be no performance issues.
4. The only option with Standard is Pool Pairing, so no better suggestions.
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Lync 2013 standard server for 3000

Planning to deploy Lync 2013 standard server for 3000 users, IM/presence, Audio/video, persistence chat, monitoring/archive. external access required so 1 edge server in DC and 1 in DR. No enterprise voice. DC and DR are corrected with dark fiber
one lync 2013 standard server in DC and 1 in DR. 1 edge server in DC and 1 Edge server in D R.have couple of queries.
1. can i get HA while doing server pairing in DC and DR?
2. how much time will it take for frontend failover if my frontend server is down in DC.
3. how much time will take for external access failover in DC and DR?
4. are there any potential risks if using standard version instead of enterprise?
Basically client need cost effective solution as lync is not critical for him, does not want to use 3 FE servers in DC and 3 FE in DR to achive HA. want to achieve the solution with standard servers.

1) HA typically refers to automatic failover, so not with Standard edition, but you can get manual failover with this with nearly full functionality.
2) Again, this is manual, but once invoked less than 20 minutes I'd think, possibly faster, only testing invoke-failover will tell you for sure but it won't be too bad.
3) This involves a topology change to change the federation route, possibly next hop for the edge, and possibly media path for a front end pool. That can be completed and replicated in under a minute. You may want to point your external simple
URLs and such (lyncdiscover) at the remaining server, this may be a DNS change to point to a separate reverse proxy. Your _sipfederationtls._tcp SRV record can have a lower matching partner as well, but I typically prefer to keep low TTLs on the external
DNS records so they can be changed quickly.
4) Sure, no automatic failover, your scalability is limited without building out new pools later, no SQL backend that can be mirrored for a bit more resiliency. But again, you can manually failover without issue, you just have to be able to tolerate
a short outage.
Technically, you'd only need 1 FE in the DR site. You have to match Ent/Ent or Std/Std in a pool pair, but the number of servers don't need to match. Still, the HLB and SQL requirements can be costly so I understand this.
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Lync 2013 Standard backup questions

Hello
I need to backup our Lync 2013 Standard Edition setup.
We have Only one server atm.
Looking at this post for inspiration:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/06/28/weekend-scripter-basic-lync-server-2013-backup-and-restore-part-1.aspx
As far as i can understand, i don't need to do SQL backup at all? Or am i missing the point?
Would I be able to restore my Lync from these 3 commands:
Export-CSConfiguratiom, Export-CSLisConfiguration and Export-CsUserData - Is that enough for a disasterrecovery?
And a bonus question:
When i run Export-CSLisConfiguration . The export only contains the following:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<LisDatabase xmlns="urn:schema:Microsoft.Rtc.Lis.Database.2008"/>
Is that not incomplete somehow?

That much would get you back up and running, yes. But it may not be a "full" restore.
For example, if you have persistent chat data, it wouldn't necessarily be included in there. If you have an archiving database where all IMs are sent, that information wouldn't be in the PowerShell exports above. If you don't have a copy of the
certificate and private key, that's lost.
Typically, I run my own custom version of Lasse's backup script https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Backup-script-for-Lync-2013-aacbb9b9
That pulls all the data, including your file stores, SQL exports, certificates, and everything into a single folder and zips it for you. If you back those zips up, you'll have most everything.
Restoring directly back into SQL isn't the recommended method, if you did need to get back up you'd want to follow standard restore procedures by using the supported PowerShell, but you'll have other avenues to restore if needed and a more complete copy
of your data.
The LIS export may be complete if you don't have any Lync locations defined. You'd typically enter these for 911 purposes.
Check out Lasse's Channel 9 video as well:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/OFC-B331
Check out his backup series docs here as well:
http://tech.rundtomrundt.com/search/label/Backup-Lync2013
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Certificate Requirement for Lync 2013 Standard Edition

I have successfully run the setup of lync 2013 standard edition now I am stuck due to certificates required for lync 2013. when I generate a csr. it show the subjected urls for that.
hostname.domain.com
sip.domain.com
diali.domain.com
meet.domain.com
admin.domain.com
lyncdiscover.domain.com
lyncdiscoverinternal.domain.com
im.domain.com (External URL)
so if I go for 3 party CA then I need 8 certicate only for internal lync. As I also need to connected federated partner and external user so I need Edge for again I need 3 more certificates
web.domain.com
a/v.domain.com
sip.domain.com
now when I go for these certificate it quit costly and I didn't understand why such certifcates required. can anyone help me to fix such requirement.
Or, what are the necessary url to which I buy 3 party CA rest leave as it is.
I also want to deploy Edge with single adopter as we have only one network so can anyone assist me to proceed it further.
Talha Faraz Malik

To save on the cost of your third party certificates, I would deploy an internal certificate authority to sign certificates for your internal front end. For your third party certificate, you would only need the SANs for the edge and for your
reverse proxy and as Edwin said, this can be a single cert with multiple SANs.
For example, for your edge you would need:
sip.domain.com
web.domain.com
You would not need A/V as this role does not require a SAN on your certificate. On the same certificate, which you could also use on your reverse proxy, you'd likely want the following FQDNs.
lyncdiscover.domain.com
im.domain.com (your external web services FQDN)
meet.domain.com
dialin.domain.com
You may also want to consider your internal web services FQDN and include the following so third party mobile devices can connect without needing a certificate installed:
im_internal.domain.com (your internal web services FQDN)
lyncdiscoverinternal.domain.com
I'm sure that's not entirely clear yet, so feel free to ask more questions or what the purpose of each is.
When you say Edge with a single adapter, you mean a single adapter in a DMZ or internal? You definably want two NICS, both in separate DMZs, but I've managed to get the edge working with a single adapter in a DMZ before. What you don't want is
the edge in your internal network.
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Lync 2013 Standard Edition on Cisco UCS E-Series

Hello,
We have a working Lync 2013 deployment:
- Front-End Enterprise Pool consisting of 3 FE servers
- one Edge Server
- one Back-End server
- one Mediation Server
- one IP PBX gateway, where ITSP's SIP trunks end.
Because we have geographically distributed offices, we are considering deploying of branch offices deployments.
Technet recommends to use SBA for branch offices where there are less than 1000 users. But in case of WAN outage, no conferencing will be available for branch users.
Lync 2013 Standard edition branch deployment would offer all Lync features in case of WAN outage.
In every branch, we consider deploying a Cisco ISR G2 router for terminating branch SIP trunks. This equipment have option to add Cisco UCS E-Series blade that supports CPU with hardware virtualization and supports decent amount of RAM (up to 16GB and up
to 48GB).
Have anyone experience with deploying Lync Standard Edition on this equipment - Cisco UCS E-Series blades? In every branch office there are up to 50 - 500 users that will use Lync.
Thanks,
Andrei Moraru Endava

Hi,
I don’t think you can deploy Lync server 2013 on Cisco UCS E-Series blades.
Here is a link below of “System Requirements for Servers Running Lync Server 2013” may help you:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398588.aspx
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Lync 2013 standard number of Backends required and pool paring setup?

Hi
I am in the process of putting together a lync 2013 implementation. The plan is to use lync 2013 standard as IM and Presence are the only requirement we have approx. 3000 users
we have two sites
Site A (Primary)
x 2 FE-A1 FE-A2 Lync 2013
x1 BE-A1 Lync 2013
Site B (D.R)
X 2 FE-B1 FE-B2 Lync 2013
X1 BE-B1 Lync 2013
what I want to know is
1. If Site A has two FE servers each will require there own pool if I pair FE-A1 with FE-A2 can I also pair FE-A1 with FE-B1 and the same for 2?
2. Can the servers FE-A1 and FE-A2 use the same BE server or should I be using a separate server for each?
3. In this design I was thinking of using two edge servers 1 at each site that would be published using TMG, would this be correct, this would be for IPhone mobile users to use.
thanks in advance
J

1) If site A has to FE servers, and you go with Standard edition, they would be their own pools. If you wanted HA you could put three enterprise servers together into a single pool and load balance them. If you pair FE-A1 with FE-A2, those
two pools cannot be paired with any other pool. You also can't Pair FE-A1 to FE-A2, then FE-A2 to FE-B1.
2) Your diagram looks like Lync 2013 for the back end, it would actually be SQL, and this would specifically apply if you're using Lync enterprise. If the Lync front end servers are in the same pool, they can use the same backend, if they're not they
need separate back ends.
3) Edge servers would be published with a standard firewall, if TMG is your firewall that would work. If TMG is only being used as a reverse proxy, you would use it to publish your web services on your front end servers. Either way, you'll need
to also publish the web services on your front end servers to the Internet for mobile clients to function.
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Lync 2013 updating databases after updating Front End servers

We have a front-end server pool consisting of 3 Lync 2013 servers and a back end of 2 SQL servers using SQL mirroring. All servers are Windows 2008 R2.
Following the instructions in
http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2809243 , I verified that the servers were all ready for updates, then I ran the
Stop-CsWindowsService -Graceful cmdlet to stop the Lync services on the first FE server, then I ran LyncServerUpdateInstaller.exe to install the updates. After the updates were installed, I restarted the server, waited for Lync services
to all start, then repeated the process on the next 2 servers in turn. This was all successful.
I am now looking at step 2 in this document, applying the back-end database updates, and I have a problem and some questions. The problem is that all the databases had the principal copy on the mirrored SQL server. I ran the recommended Invoke-CsDatabaseFailover
-NewPrincipal Primary cmdlet repeatedly, using all the database types I could find, but I still have two databases (database names
xds and lis) on the mirrored server. Since the cmdlet requires a database type, what type of databases are the xds and the lis databases?
Once I get that done, I an still unsure of exactly what to run to update the databases. The KB article states to run Install-CsDatabase -ConfiguredDatabases -SqlServerFqdn FEBE.FQDN -Verbose .  Do I type this in exactly
as stated, or is FEBE.FQDN a variable for our SQL server or some other entity in our environment? If I do use the actual SQL Server name in that, do I run it twice, using the name of the mirrored SQL server the second time?
Thank you very much for your help.

Hi Logan Burt,
Central Management store database files
Data file or log purpose
                Xds.ldf
Transaction log file for the Central Management store
                Xds.mdf
Maintains the configuration of the current Lync Server 2013 topology, as defined and published by Topology Builder
                Lis.mdf
Location Information service data file
                Lis.ldf
Transaction log for the Location Information service data file
And you could verify if Lync Server 2013 database updates have completed successfully.
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
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Lync 2013 Mirror Database fails to install - Error: DsRoleGetPrimaryDomainInformation failed with error "6BA".

Database primary installs just fine for Lync 2013 - however fails instantly when trying to install mirror DB to mirror SQL Server. The account has dull domain admin, Enterprise admins, and schema admins. Full access to the share as well. I
get the following error:
InstallMirrorDatabaseCmdlet.StartMirroring
4/7/2014 10:38:56 AM
Failed
└
Error: DsRoleGetPrimaryDomainInformation failed with error "6BA".
▼ Details
└ Type: CannotGetDomainInfoException
└ ► Stack Trace
└
at Microsoft.Rtc.Management.ADConnect.NativeHelpers.NativeHelper.GetPrimaryDomainInformation(String server)
at Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.MirrorUtils.GetSqlServerAccount(String server, String instanceName)
at Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.TopologyParser.PopulateDatabasesForSqlInstance(ISqlInstance sqlInstance)
at Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.TopologyParser.FindDatabasesForMachine(IMachine machine)
at Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.TopologyParser.FindDatabasesForFqdn()
at Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.TopologyParser.GetDbListToMirror()
at Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.TopologyParser.get_DbInfoList()
at Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.InstallMirrorDatabaseCmdlet.StartMirroring()
at Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Internal.Utilities.LogWriter.InvokeAndLog(Action action)
4/7/2014 10:38:58 AM
Error
└
Error: An error occurred: "Microsoft.Rtc.Management.ADConnect.CannotGetDomainInfoException" "DsRoleGetPrimaryDomainInformation failed with error "6BA"."

The issue could be a typo in the SQL server name or that the SQL server isn't allowing remote connections. If you run the Install-csmirrordatabase command from powershell you should see more details about the error.
Take a look at Doug Deitterick's blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dodeitte/archive/2013/03/05/issue-configuring-sql-mirroring-for-lync-server-2013-when-sql-witness-is-defined-but-not-available.aspx
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How to connect Lync 2013 client with OCS 2007 R2 Edge server

Hi,
We have OCS 2007 R2 Edge server for external & OCS 2007 R2 FE Server for internal access in our environment.
We able to access internally Lync2013 clients with OCS 2007R2 server, however from external we cannot access Lync2013 client with OCS2007 R2 server.
Is there any patch or registry key trick to access OCS from lync2013 client externally? We cannot immediately migrate to Lync2013 server from OCS.
Any help
MD

Hi,
I suggest you still use OCS 2007 R2 client to login OCS 2007 R2 Server untill finishing migration to Lync Server 2013, as using Lync client with OCS 2007 R2 Server will offer a pretty limited experience.
Here is a great blog about Lync 2010 Client unsupported with OCS, it is for Lync 2010 client but similar for Lync 2013 client:
http://blog.schertz.name/2010/09/lync-client-unsupported-ocs/
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Lync 2013 standard deployment: Exchange 2010 Sharepoint 2010 and outlook 2007 collaboration

HI
I have Exchange 2010 and sharepoint 2010 with all our user using outlook 2007. what options do I have for collaborations between these systems if I was to install Lync 2013. I have seen posts that mention that you cannot use outlook 2007 and lync 2013 and
that you would be better off installing the lync 2010 client?
1. would we be covered from a licensing point of view if we had bought lync 2013 cals but install the lync 2010 software on desktops?
2. what Cals do we require for presence to be available in SharePoint we currently have standard sharepoint cals?
3. what new features will we loose if we install 2010 lync software.
4. if our mobile users use the 2013 lync software will these be able to communicate with the 2010 users?
thanks
J

Hi,
If you use Lync 2013 client with Outlook, multiple functions will not be achieved, such as: customize Outlook meeting invitations (add logo, help URL, disclaimer, footer text), in Outlook, configure meeting option to mute attendee audio and video by default,
presence status in the Microsoft Outlook To and Cc fields, and so on. As Lync 2013 is the part of Office 2013, the best choice is using Outlook 2013.
More details:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg412817.aspx
For the CAL requirement, you can refer to following link:
Lync Licensing Guide
You can refer to the link below of “What’s new for clients in Lync Server 2013” to understand the new features for Lync 2013:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204933.aspx
If you use Lync 2013 mobile clients, you can communicate with 2010 users with no possible.
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How to Disable Lync 2013 Web app link in Lync meeting

I want disable Lync 2013 Web App , because it is confuse WinXP user(no sound suuport) , I reference the topic(Disable Lync Web App link) but not work in 2013 version. How can I disable that?

I assume you're referring to this link:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/33fbfa3f-e7dd-43a7-85f4-43c280e17d4f/disable-lync-web-app-link?forum=ocsconferencing
That was an unsupported but clever hack that we developed by the user asking the question. There is not supported method for doing this in Lync 2013.
If it's an audio only meeting, I'd suggest removing the URL completely from each individual the meeting invite before sending it out. If it's not, then the WinXP user would either need Lync, which they would then automatically join with anyway, or
they wouldn't in which case sending them the meeting invite wouldn't help.
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Lync 2013 sql database on existing lync 2010 sql server

Dear All,
I have query regarding the SQL server requirement for Lync 2013 enterprise,when there is a co-existence or migration from lync 2010 to 2013, it it possible to use the same Lync 2010 enterprise sql server with different instance name or we have to create
a new sql server for lync 2013, please advice me.
Thanks and regards,
sarma kumar

No it is not possible. Topology builder won't allow it, it needs to be a completely different server name.
When you input the server into Topology builder you enter the server name and instance in two separate fields, it will give you a red X as soon as you try to put the server name in if it's already in the topology.
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