Only Guest users with Lync Web App
Hello!
I would like to allow just "Guest" users when they use the Lync Web App 2013. Is there anyway from Lync Server side to configure this?
Now it pops-up the user & password authentication, and I want to restrict the users to use only Anonymous access when they join to a Conference. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance! :D
Daniel
Hi,
You can change the publishing rule to block “Join using your corporate credentials” option. For details:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/lyncinternals/archive/2011/11/16/3462376.aspx
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(Lync 2013) Lync Web App: Call ended because of network connectivity issues
I'm having a very strange problem with Lync Web App. When I try to join a meeting, it works in the following conditions:
- With the Lync 2013 windows client: always (internal network, external network)
- Lync Web App: Works in internal network. When I'm on an external network, I'm able to join a meeting, but when Lync Web App tries to establish the call, it ends with the error: "Call ended because of network connectivity issues".
On the other hand, IM works with Lync Web App (internal/external network). But all the other features (presentation, audio call, video call) are not working.
Did anyone experience such an issue ?
Thanks,
AntonioHi,
Since the issue only happen on Lync web app that was handled by reverse proxy. The issue maybe related to RP configuration. Please refer to one of the following links to check if the RP configuration are correct.
How to Configure ForeFront TMG 2010 as Reverse Proxy for Lync Server 2010
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9807.how-to-configure-forefront-tmg-2010-as-reverse-proxy-for-lync-server-2010.aspx
Using IIS ARR as a Reverse Proxy for Lync Server 2013
http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2013/02/19/using-iis-arr-as-a-reverse-proxy-for-lync-server-2013.aspx
Here is a similar case for your reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lyncconferencing/thread/e5d8d247-4646-4e2a-b6f0-e0fd8b3a5ace
If the issue persists, please try to collect report for further troubleshooting.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35453
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TechNet Community Support -
"Lost connection to all Lync Web App locations." followed by immediate restoration
Lync Web App is working fine, but occasionally I see the following events:
LS Data MCU - 41029 - Lost connection to the with Lync Web App
LS Data MCU - 41031 - Lost connection to all Lync Web App locations
This events fire twice, once for both internal and external. Immediately after the last event, the following event fires indicating service is restored:
LS Data MCU - 41030 - Connection to the Lync Web App has been restored
This happens for internal and external. Any ideas why this would happen?Please try to restart the Lync Web Conferencing Service on Lync Front End Server.
Try to install the latest update for Lync Server.
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Lync2013: Lync Web App sign in as guest
Lync Web App sign is as guest is returning the following error:
"There was an error in joining you into the meeting. Please contact your support team."
& I'm seeing this error being generated on the Lync server:
Storage Service had an EWS Autodiscovery failure.
UnsupportedStoreException: code=ErrorIncorrectExchangeServerVersion, reason=GetUserSettings failed, smtpAddress=xyz@ .com, Autodiscover Uri=https://autodiscover. .com/autodiscover/autodiscover.svc, Autodiscover WebProxy=<NULL> --->Hi MikeMerkato,
Please check the anonymous access settings and conference policies.
AllowAnonymousParticipantsInMeetings:
Indicates whether anonymous users are allowed to participate in the meeting. If set to False then only authenticated users (that is, users logged on to your Active Directory
Domain Services or the Active Directory of a federated partner) are allowed to attend the meeting. The default value is True.
This setting applies to the user who organizes the conference: if set to False, no conference created by a user affected by this policy will allow anonymous participants. However, the
user can take part in other conferences where anonymous participants are allowed.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg425788.aspx
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Install Lync Web App Plugin For Another User
I'm wondering if there is a way to install the plugin for the Lync Web App for another user. The reason why is that administrative permissions are required and our users are not allowed to have those permissions. I have the MSI but when I look at it, it
says
"Cannot install [ProductName].Setting the AllUsers property is not allowed because [ProductName] is a per-user application."
Is there a way that I can install the MSI, maybe through the command line or another method, and specify another user so it installs to their profile?
Thanks!Hi,
This is typically achieved by allowing exceptions in your software control strategy for the required executable;
LWAPlugin.exe
LWAVersionPlugin.exe
AppSharingHookController.exe
AppSharingHookController64.exe
This typically occurs in VDI deployments where users are not able to install software onremote server, so the above rule is added to the Software Restriction Policy (providing that's what you're using to control application installation).
I'm not familiar with any associated cmd line switches I'm afraid.
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Windows Server 2008 (TS) and Lync Web App installation failure
Hey folks,
I've run into a little big problem due the Lync Web App installation via mstsc on a stand alone Terminal Server 2008 SP2 64 Bit. When I tried to install the Lync Web App Plugin via
mstsc and standard user I get the message:
"The system administrator has
set up a policy that the installation
prevents"
Till that it's just fine.
The next thing I did is to disable the UAC and DEP, but same problem as above. I also tried to extract the install EXE for the MSI packages to allow the installation. But did not work.
After I searched the internet for an answer relating to this problem I've had to create or change a RegEdit entry. So I switched to the registry to:
HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer
and created a DWORD entry DisableMSI and set it to 0. Then I tried the installation of Lync Web App Plugin via
mstsc and standard user again and this message appeared:
"The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2755"
Now the curious thing is, that when I am logged on locally, the standard user is able to install the Lync Web App Plugin. And it works fine. After the installation is complete I can switch to mstsc again and it works.
The only thing what doesn't work is to install Lync Web App Plugin via mstsc into the user profile.
Any suggestions?Before you install the application, change your user mode to installation mode.
You can run the following command with Prompt Command:
Change user /install
After the application is installed, change back to execution mode, you can do so by running the following command:
Change User /Execute
Lisa Zheng
TechNet Community Support -
External Meetings using Lync Web App vs Lync 2013 Desktop client
We have LYNC Server 2013 deployed on premise. Our clients are LYNC 2013. When someone external to our organization sends us a Lync meeting request we are able to connect with our Lync 2012 desktop client but only Audio is available. We cannot share
the desktop. If however we connect to the external meeting using the Lync Web App (by specifying
?sl=1 at the end of the meeting url) we are able to use all the services like audio, desktop sharing etc.
I've found the following articles that suggest that the desktop clients are not the preferred choice to connect to external meetings.
http://blog.schertz.name/2011/11/forcing-lync-web-app/
http://www.computer-talk.com/en/blog/item/attendees-cannot-join-your-lync-web-conference
Can anyone advise as to why the desktop clients are restrictive and if there is a fix and if not how can we force users to use the Lync Web App to connect to external meetings?
Our lync 2013 desktop clients use the following ports:
PS C:\Users\am03744ad> Get-CsConferencingConfiguration
Identity : Global
MaxContentStorageMb : 500
MaxUploadFileSizeMb : 500
MaxBandwidthPerAppSharingServiceMb : 375
ContentGracePeriod : 15.00:00:00
ClientMediaPortRangeEnabled : True
ClientMediaPort : 5350
ClientMediaPortRange : 40
ClientAudioPort : 50020
ClientAudioPortRange : 20
ClientVideoPort : 58000
ClientVideoPortRange : 20
ClientAppSharingPort : 42000
ClientAppSharingPortRange : 20
ClientFileTransferPort : 42020
ClientFileTransferPortRange : 20
ClientSipDynamicPort : 7100
ClientSipDynamicPortRange : 3
Organization :
HelpdeskInternalUrl :
HelpdeskExternalUrl :
ConsoleDownloadInternalUrl :
ConsoleDownloadExternalUrl :You should be fine using the full Lync client, it's not restricted by default. If there's an issue, it's typically in the networking related to your edge, or the edge of the organization you're federating with.
The reason the web client is preferred by many (not all, and that's not an official Microsoft stance), is simply that if everyone uses the web client, it's a consistent experience for the attendees and you don't have to worry about the status of attendee's Lync
environment or federation.
Can your external users share a desktop with internal users? Can they do it externally in a conference hosted by you? Can the remote organization share desktops with you when connected to your conferences? And in these conferences,
have the marked you as presenter so you can present your desktop?
There's no good way to automatically force users to use the web app each time unfortunately. The other organization would need to hardcode that ?sl=1 into each meeting invite sent.
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Sorry, something went wrong - Open Office File from Search Results Page with Office Web Apps
Hi,
I'm getting "Sorry, something went wrong" error when I'm trying to open any office document from inside Search Results Page with Office Web Apps, the same error is appearing in the document preview as well.
The error in SharePoint logs says that the file cannot be found.
Please note that this error is coming only when the "Filename" of the document is not written in English (in my case its written with Arabic characters).
If I try to open it from the document library, its opening properly with no errors.
The only difference between two URLs (document URL in Search Results and in Document Library) is the value for "sourcedoc" attribute;
In the case of Search Results page, the filename in "sourcedoc" attribute is kept as is with Arabic characters.
While in the Document Library, the filename in "sourcedoc" attribute is converted into different characters (something like: "B9%D9%85%D9%8").
Anybody have an idea on how to overcome this issue, implement a workaround or modify the "sourcedoc" behavior?
Thanks in Advance.
Hamza AlSughierDear Wendy,
Thanks for your efforts, I already tried your last suggestion before, but this didn't solve my problem.
Actually my end users are accessing this portal using ADFS and HTTPS.
Finally I got this solved, I have done below to get my overall solution working perfectly:
- First I have configured Windows Authentication and ADFS Authentication on the same zone which is the default zone.
- The issue when opening office documents with Arabic file name has disappeared as a result of first change.
- Then I have faced an issue where we are not able to crawl content under Default zone, however we have to do so, after too many efforts, I found that its related to the Load-balancer/proxy, I have made the crawler server
to crawl himself (http://CrawlServerName:PortNumber).
- Also a change on Alternate Access Mapping was needed, I have set one of the extended zones (which is running Windows Authentication only) as Internal URL for the Default Zone, and this is was the URL I used for Crawling.
I have configured Server Name Mappings to make sure we got proper URLs in Search Results.
- Then we faced another issue, which is Authentication selection on login page (How to bypass this page, and authenticate using ADFS auto), I used this solution (Set Custom Sign In Page):
http://0ut0ftheb0x.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/skip-the-authentication-selection-page-at-_logindefault-aspx-in-a-mixed-authentication-environment/.
- I faced one more issue as a result of above workaround; Sign Out functionality wasn't working well; users get logged in automatically whenever I click on Sign Out. I solved this by modifying the "Sign Out" Control under _layouts;
I made it to redirect users to ADFS Sign Out Page instead of SharePoint Sign Out Page (I know its not recommended, but I don't have any other option).
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SharePoint 2013 cannot view PDF documents in mobile browser with office web apps
Hi,
I'm receiving the following error when viewing SharePoint 2013 PDF documents in a mobile browser after clicking on the filename:
"Viewing of .pdf files has been disabled in Microsoft Word Mobile Viewer. Please get in touch with your helpdesk."
My Question
Is viewing PDF documents in mobile browsers with Office Web Apps SP1 actually supported? If so, how can I enable it? I've already have pdf viewing working in non-mobile browsers. Word documents open just fine on mobile browsers too.
I'm getting conflicting answers for pdf mobile viewing support from various sources:
You've got Microsoft toting that they've added in PDF viewing on any device for Office Web Apps
http://blogs.office.com/2013/07/03/pdfs-in-the-word-web-app/
A MS support person saying saying it is not supported
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_web_apps_server_2013_support_blog/archive/2013/12/31/enabling-pdf-previews-in-document-libraries-with-office-web-apps-2013-in-sharepoint-2013-open-link-does-not-work-from-preview.aspx
Another person implying that it should work because you can disable pdf browsing for mobile browsers only
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_resource_kit/archive/2013/07/24/control-whether-pdfs-open-in-word-web-app-or-the-default-pdf-reader.aspx
What I've tried
When I started looking into this there was a mobile WOPI entry:
Application : WordPdf
Extension : PDF
ProgId :
Action : mobileView
IsDefaultAction : False
ServerName : 20SP8
WopiZone : internal-http
I tried experimenting with tweaking this binding by changing the DefaultAction to true, and even removing it altogether via:
Get-SPWopiBinding -Action "MobileView" -Application "WordPDF" | Remove-SPWopiBinding -Confirm:$false
But I still get the same message.
I removed all the WordPdf bindings and re-added them via:
New-SPWOPIBinding –ServerName "<myserver>" –Application "WordPDF" -AllowHTTP
No dice. In fact the mobileview binding doesn't even come back... but I guess that is a different issue altogether.
Version
SharePoint 2013 (SP1)
Office Web Apps Server (SP1)
Farm Setup
Internal facing only
2 front end servers, 1 app server, 1 office web apps serverI think the PDF support, if it exists, in only in Office 365. Always remember that the Office 365 and on premises versions will never be in sync. On premise is updated using periodic service packs and Office 365 has continuous updates. (I've heard every
10 days.)
In my Office 365 / IE 10 tests, the PDFs open in the browser's default PDF viewer, in my case FoxIt Reader. So I can't prove one way or the other about support in Office Web Apps.
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Lync Web App will not load and does not error out
Hi,
Recently I've been receiving invites to Lync 15 meetings. I am able to join the meetings and things work fine until somebody shares their desktop or a presentation. Then I get a message saying Windows firewall has blocked an app and asks if I want
to allow the Lync Web App to run. I click OK and it appears to begin loading. The app doesn't load, I can still hear audio on the meeting but all the rest of the Lync app freezes except for the spinning circle wheel telling me it is loading.
When I look in Task Manager, I can see the Lync Web App running with a steady stream of I/O. But the entire Lync meeting will not render. If I kill the Lync Web App from Task Manager, then the Lync meeting immediately works.
System: Win 7 pro 64, IE 9, AMD Athalon dual core chip, 4 GB RAM, tons of disk space, DSL 700K connection
Any ideas?
Thanks,
JAS.
JASHi There,
Thanks a lot for reporting this issue. And I am sorry that you are hitting this issue while attending Lync meetings. Following details will help us diagnose it further -
1) Do you have Lync 2010 or Lync 2013 client installed on the machine?
2) Do you get this issue again and again when you join the meeting or it was one-off?
3) When you killed "Lync Web App" from task manager, was audio flowing through even after that? Were you still attending the meeting from the browser?
4) How much time did you wait when UI was showing "Loading" until you killed the Lync Web App from task manager?
Thanks.
ManuMSFT
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Accessing Shared OneNote from Lync Web App
When attempting to access a OneNote that has been shared in a Lync Meeting via Lync Web App, users are taken to OneDrive in a separate browser window and get an error that they do not have permissions to access the notes or that the notes do not exist. Going
to OneDrive I understand since the OneNote notebook is hosted on OneDrive (instead of Sharepoint), but I don't understand the permission error.
How are Lync Web App users supposed to access shared OneNotes without the presenter granting individual permissions to the notebook? That method is too time consuming and not intuitive for end users.
Mac users rely on accessing OneNotes via Lync Web App and OneDrive (OneNote Online) since there isn't a OneNote client for Mac and most of the time they will be joining meetings via Lync Web App instead of the 2011 client.It is not on Lync Web App side to control this behavior.
You need permission to access the shared OneNote on OneDrive.
You need to sign in even without Lync Web App.
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TechNet Community Support -
Join meeting using Lync Web App resolves to internal
Vanilla Lync deployment: 1 FE (Standard Edition), 1 Edge, 1 Reverse Proxy (IIS 8, ARR 3.0), 1 Office Web Apps Server
When I send out a meeting invitation to an external user and they click on Join Meeting, the resulting link "Join Using Lync Web App Instead" points to my FE server.
I've got the External web services FQDN defined in Topology Builder:
'lyncweb.domain.com', but when I go to install Lync Web App, it says it can't find 'lyncfe.domain.local'
Looking at the URL for the 'Join Using Lync Web App instead' I see:
"https://lyncfe.domain.local/lwa/WebPages/LwaClient.aspx?legacy=..."
My reverse proxy has server farms set up that all point to my FE server, as prescribed.
Another issue I think is related: I have 2 simple URLs listed for meetings: meet.domain.com AND meet.domain.local; both show as active. Do I need the internal URL? If not, I can't remove it. I tried but after I highlight it and click on remove, it just puts
a red box around the field and greys out the OK button.
So I thought, maybe that's because I have 'domain.local' defined as a SIP domain. So I checked there and, yes, I do. And it's the
Default SIP domain. I have 'domain.com' listed as an additional SIP domain.
I thought about changing the default to 'domain.com' but found an article (http://lyncuc.blogspot.com/2014/04/change-default-sip-domain-in-lync.html) which says DON'T DO
IT.
So...?
"Never, ever doubt what nobody is sure about." -Willy WonkaConfirm that the External Web Services FQDN for the Lync Front End pool is not defined anywhere else in the topology, must be unique. Seen people use the same FQDN as their Edge server.
Confirm External Web Service FQDN is on the SAN list for the Reverse Proxy Certificate and the Lync Front End Certificate.
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Open Documents with Office Web App - SharePoint 2013
We have configured Office Web App for our SharePoint 2013 Farm and in Site settings, Site Collection Features, have disabled "Open Documents in Client Applications by Default" . Out of 15 sites, all documents in 13 sites open in Office
Web App. One of the 2 sites where the document still open using Client Application is a Wiki site.
Advanced propertied for the libraries settings has been set to "Use the server default (Open in the browser)". Anything else to check to open documents in Office Web App?
Thanks
MPHi,
As I understand, you encountered the issue when you want to open documents with Office Web App.
Check things below:
1. In the library setting->advanced setting, you can choose the open in the browser to see if the same situation will occur.
2. Check if you have not enable the Open Documents in Client Applications by Default feature.
If you choose Activate to enable the Open in Client feature (documents will open in the client application), or
Deactivate to disable the Open in Client feature (documents will open in the browser).
You can go to Site setting->site collection administration->site collection feature->Open
Documents in Client Applications by Default to set the feature.
The article below is about how to set the default open behavior for browser-enabled documents.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee837425(v=office.15).aspx
The article below is about how to configure office web apps for SharePoint 2013.
Configure Office Web Apps for SharePoint 2013
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Hi there!
Is there any solutions for convert document spreadsheet presentation to images with Office Web Apps?Hi,
As far as I know, there is no build-in feature that convert Office file to image format in Office web app yet.
I'll collect the information, and submit it with internal ways. Then, we could also submit the feedback here:
http://office.microsoft.com/suggestions.aspx
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
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How to make form field read only for users with certain permissions
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Please give your suggestion on this.
thanks.Hi,
See the link below:
http://info.akgroup.com/blog-0/bid/69277/InfoPath-Restrict-visibility-to-users-in-a-SharePoint-Group
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