Deployment of skype for business server infra has been taken up carefully with the objective of meeting or exceeding user expectation. However, in real world a real time communication can breakdown to a bad experience one from one or more weak point in the path...
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February 8, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
IPAM, Powershell, SFBS, Uncategorized
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In my last post on IPAM, I discussed about deploying IPAM server, collecting data from pilot set of server through manual configuration and then going full-fledged with AD group policy at root level. This would give the required repository of IP address into IPMA. However,...
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January 28, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
IPAM, Powershell, SFBS, Uncategorized
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As stated earlier, in this deployment of SFBS default gateway on frontend server are L3 switch as against the hardware load balancer (HLB) in the case of Lync 2013. This was to ensure the license cap apart from the hardware capability of HLB is not...
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January 10, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Haproxy, Keepalived, SFBS, Uncategorized
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In Lync 2013, SQL mirroring was the option used for backend high availability. For skype for business server however SQL always on was the preferred choice. It combines the richness of Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) while removing the dependency of shared storage as in...
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January 9, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
AlwaysON, SFBS, SQL Server, Uncategorized
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After the high level details on previous post, this post would be on infra setup for SFB. First things would be the storage space setup that going to host the SQL server VMs (requires Hyper-V) as well as few FE servers, apart from providing tiered...
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December 10, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
SFBS, Uncategorized
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Hyper-V being the platform of choice for Lync is proving good and hence it would be continuing for SFBS. However, the new design has to improve the current IOPS to meet the increase in demand and reduce network latency further, while allowing to reuse the...
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December 10, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
SFBS, Uncategorized
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My earlier post on Lync 2013 on Virtual Infra gives a quick insight into the current deployment. As part of transition to skype for business server (SFBS), there are list things that need to be considered including improvement requirement.
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December 10, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
SFBS, Uncategorized
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Day 1: How many users in your company: ###K How many endpoints you have: XXXK How many IP address you use:?????? Do you know how many subnets are in used in your enterprise: sure I can share you the list quickly
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December 10, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
IPAM, Uncategorized
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Inputs like failed disk or communication lost etc. can give a clear indication for replacing storage disk. However, things like intermittent IO issues are bit difficult to determine if the disk requires replacement. SMART information of the disk, HBA etc. as discussed in the last...
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May 21, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Storage Spaces, Uncategorized
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6th May 2015 : Today done the in place upgrade to build 10074 and findings so far
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May 6, 2015 pkpanda
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