How To Create ISO Image In Windows 7 With Free Software ImgBurn

  5:13 PM    Santosh

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task:
Read - Read a disc to an image file
Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc
Write - Write an image file to a disc
Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct
Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing

Download ImgBurn Now


 

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Defensio Best Free alternative to Akismet

  5:10 PM    Santosh

Defensio's blog spam web service aggressively and intelligently prevents comment and trackback spam from hitting your blog. You should quickly notice a dramatic reduction in the amount of spam you have to worry about.

When the filter does rarely make a mistake (say, the odd spam message gets through or a rare good comment is marked as spam) we've made it a joy to sort through your comments and set things straight. Not only will the filter learn and improve over time, but it will do so in a personalized way!

In order to use Defensio service, you will need a free Defensio API key. Get yours now at Defensio.com.

Defensio "Personal" is Free for individual & startups. It supports 25,000 posts/months which is huge for personal blog. Defension can ber used for blogs,website and for facebook.


Just go to www.defensio.com & sign up for the free account & API keys. Go wordpress dashboard-> plugin & install defensio plugin to get rid of all SPAM post..


Happy Blogging!!!!!!!!


  

[Guide] Installing Active Directory on Windows Server 8

  9:06 AM    Santosh

DCPROMO is no more available with new Windows 8 Server Beta. If you run dcpromo it give you a below message. "The Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard is relocated in Server Manager."



Now you can Install Active Directory by using Server Manager, So follow below steps,

  • Open Server Manager, click Manage and click Add Roles and Features to start the Add Roles Wizard.



  • click Next



  • On the Select installation type page, click Role-based or feature-based installation and then click Next. click Select a server from the server pool, click the name of the server where you want to install AD DS and then click Next



  • click Active Directory Domain Services, then on the Add Roles and Features Wizard dialog box, click Add Features, and then click Next.



  • On the Select features page, select any additional features you want to install and click Next.



  • click Next



  • click Install



  • Verify Installation succeeded, and click Promote this server to a domain controller to start the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard



  • click Promote this server to a domain controller to start the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard as shown below,


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[Solved] Windows Server 2012 Black Screen after installing VMware Tools

  7:57 AM    Santosh

Today I have faced one issue after the installation of VMWare tools on the Windows Server 8 Beta. Virtual machine became unresponsive and the screen was black .

The fix to that issue is to enable Graphics acceleration from the VM settings and then reboot the machine. That should fix the display blank out issue.

Check below guides,

How to Install Windows Server 8 Beta on VMware Workstation

Installing VMware Tools on Windows Server 8 Beta

 

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Installing VMware Tools on Windows Server 8 Beta

  7:52 AM    Santosh

In Previous Post I have showed How to Install Windows Server 8 Beta on VMware Workstation Here I am going to show how to install VMware tools on Windows Server 8.

Mount the VMware Tools installer for the VM



 





While installing VMware Tools you might face issue of black screen, even after reboot Windows 8 Server beta does not boot. To resove this issue go Virtual machine settings->Display-> Enable Accelerate 3D graphics  as shown below.




 

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[Guide] How to Install Windows Server 2012 Beta on VMware Workstation

  7:17 AM    Santosh

The next release of Windows Server, Windows Server “8?, offers businesses and hosting providers a scalable, dynamic, and multitenant-aware, cloud-optimized infrastructure. It securely connects across premises and allows IT Professionals to respond to business needs faster and more efficiently.

Windows Server:

  1. Takes you beyond virtualization

  2. Delivers the power of many servers with the simplicity of one

  3. Opens the door to every app on any cloud

  4. Enables the modern workstyle


System Requirement:

  • Processor• Minimum: 1.4 GHz 64bit processor

  • Memory • Minimum: 512 MB RAM

  • Available Disk Space• Minimum: 32 GB



  • Drive DVD-ROM drive

  • Display and Peripherals


Download Windows 8 Server Beta


Here I have covered all steps which are necessary to Install Windows 8 Server on VMware workstation 8,



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Download Windows 2012 Server Beta

  6:18 PM    Santosh

The next release of Windows Server, Windows Server "8", offers businesses and hosting providers a scalable, dynamic, and multitenant-aware, cloud-optimized infrastructure. It securely connects across premises and allows IT Professionals to respond to business needs faster and more efficiently.

Windows Server:

  1. Takes you beyond virtualization

  2. Delivers the power of many servers with the simplicity of one

  3. Opens the door to every app on any cloud

  4. Enables the modern workstyle


System Requirement:

  • Processor• Minimum: 1.4 GHz 64bit processor

  • Memory • Minimum: 512 MB RAM

  • Available Disk Space• Minimum: 32 GB



  • Drive DVD-ROM drive

  • Display and Peripherals


Note: 32 GB should be considered an absolute minimum value for successful installation.
Computers with more than 16 GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and
dump files.

Download Windows 8 Server Beta



 

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How to Intsall Fedora Core 17 "Beefy Miracle" on VMware Workstation

  10:45 AM    Santosh

What is Fedora Project:-

The Fedora Project is a global partnership of free software community members. The Fedora Project is sponsored by Red Hat, which invests in our infrastructure and resources to encourage collaboration and incubate innovative new technologies. Some of these technologies may later be integrated into Red Hat products. They are developed in Fedora and produced under a free and open source license from inception, so other free software communities and projects are free to study, adopt, and modify them.

Fedora 17 Accepted Features

Setup a system to close duplicate crash reports being submitted by ABRT in Red Hat Bugzilla. Extend ABRT to find duplicate reports before filing a new bug.
Update Boost to the upstream (latest) 1.48 release.
A grab-bag of little cleanups and improvements all related to session and seat handling.
Cloudstack is an mature, enterprise-grade, fault tolerant, multi-hyerpvisor, production-ready IaaS platform.
ICC profile support for printing. Color management will be applied to printed jobs at the rasterization step. This can lead to improved color fidelity in printed output.
Darkserver is a service written to help people finding details of build-id(s). This service will be integrated with the Fedora infrastructure and includes a web interface and koji plugin.
Enhancements to NetworkManager will support enterprise features like bonding, IP-over-Infiniband, VLAN, and likely bridging.
An open source middleware for High Performance Computing implementing the Grid RPC model.
The DNS Root zone was signed in July 15, 2010 and there are more than 20 TLDs signed via DNSSEC. Fedora will bring benefit of this important feature to the end users and their workstations.
Support for ext4 filesystems larger than 16T (2^32 blocks).
An update of the GNOME desktop to the latest upstream release.
Enable use of kernel target (LIO) for iSCSI and FCoE.
Open source cloud IaaS for Fedora

Download Fedora Core 17 Beefy Miracle

Here I am going to cover steps to install Fedora 17 on VMware workstation 8, as you know Fedora 17 is in Alpha Stage. So its not fully supported by VMware Workstation.

I have get lots of error while installing Fedora 17 on VMware workstation. Sometimes my GUI works & some times it won't. Once I reboot my Fedora 17 VM forcefully to complete the Fedora 17 setup..

Still Graphical Interface of Fedora Core 17 is not working with VMware workstation, it might work with VMware workstation after releasing new Version or Patches.

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AdSense Publisher Toolbar for Google Chrome to View your Google AdSense account without leaving your website

  5:58 AM    Santosh

The AdSense Publisher Toolbar gives AdSense publishers two easy ways to access real-time information about their accounts and the ads served on their websites.

Click here to add Adsense Publisher Toolbar for Google Chrome

Pop-up account overview lets you view the following at a glance:
• Account earnings summary (today, yesterday, this month, last month)
• Top 5 custom channels
• Top 5 URL channels
• Lifetime revenue



In-site ad overlay gives you the following options right in your site:
• Instant summary of each ad unit’s earnings (today, yesterday, last 7 days)
• Links to go straight to your AdSense account

New in 1.6:
• Clearer multi-user selection.
• Notification bar directs users to the account overview to enable ad overlays.

New in 1.5:
• Supports multiple logins.
• First-install page added that explains product features in more detail, linked from help.
• New overlay notification, added when overlays are disabled on a domain.
• Choose your own reporting window on custom and url channel reports.
• Fixes for timezone issues. If you still see problems, please report them.

  

How To Make Money As A Web Hosting Affiliate? - Hostgator

  4:00 AM    Santosh

There are so many ways to earn money online and I am going to cover one more way to earn moeny as a Hostgator Web Hosting Affiliate.

About HostGator
Since its establishment in 2002, HostGator has been a world-leading provider of web hosting service. Although our headquarters is in Houston, Texas, we provide top-notch service to clients from over 200 countries internationally with our staff of over 750 employees. We offer Shared, Reseller, VPS, and Dedicated server packages for both beginners and professionals alike. Each of our shared Web Hosting plans includes 24/7/365 support, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and a 45-day money-back guarantee.

Earn Money Promoting the #1 Hosting Provider

Monetize the traffic to your site and earn the highest paying comissions in the industry. Come join the top affiliate program making our associates thousands of dollars a month. There is no better time to start promoting HostGator services from your site than now!

We provide all of the tools necessary for you to convert your existing traffic into sales. It's easy and only takes a few minutes to complete the sign up process. Earn up to $125 per referral!



When you sign up as a Hostgator Affliate you will be given a link with all size of banners which you may use for your marketing.

Just paste your Hostgator Banners as per your requirement on your website ot blog. Hostgator Banner look lise as shown below,



Hostgator Payment Options

Hostgator payments received in two ways,

  • By Cheque

  • Paypal

  

Different Ways to make money from Twitter

  4:10 PM    Santosh



Twitter is an online social networking service and micro blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011.

Nowdays Celebrities, Sport players, Actresses, Actor all uses twitter and sharing there thoughts with there followers.

Some Manufacturer paid you for posting a particular message about there prodcut with your folloers. If you have more number of followers then there is greater chances to earn more from Twitter paid reviews.

In market there are few companies provide paid reviews for Twitter as shown below,

Ad.ly 

 

 

Ad.ly pay you to endorse the brands you love to your followers on Twitter and more.

You pick the brands you want to work with, and you approve the endorsement copy. Then, we deliver the endorsement to your fans and followers on your behalf.

Adly is non-exclusive and easy-to-use. More than 1,000 of today’s top influencers are already working with Ad.ly.

 

TwittAdd

 

 

 

 

Twittad offers you an opportunity to monetize your Twitter stream in a fully disclosed and ethical manner. As one of the first sponsored Tweet networks, we have tweaked and modified our service over the last 2 years to provide you with the best solution for sponsored tweets.

 

TwitPub



 

 

Make money as you tweet! Get rewarded with High 80% Payout! Fast payment and scale quicker while you generate earnings with TwitPub’s innovative business model

RewTwt



 

 

 

To make money, you will need lots of real human followers who are the intended target audience of the ads. Give it a try for a couple of days. It is free. If it works for you, stick around and make more money.

  

Make Money Online With BuySellAds Review, Requirements & PayPal Payment Proof

  7:06 AM    Santosh

What is BuySellAds?
BuySellAds.com is an online advertising network based in Boston, Massachusetts founded by CEO Todd Garland.
BuySellAds helps publishers make more money, sell more ads, and save precious time. BuySellAds give you access to thousands of advertisers through our ad marketplace, and make selling and serving ads more profitable. If you don't want to deal with anything, you can relax and let us take control with managed services.


BuySellAds Details:




  1. Earning type: Monthly fixed amount per advertise

  2. Revenue Share: 25% (Buysellads) and 75% (you)

  3. Payment methods: Paypal, Check, Wire transfer.

  4. Ad Size:- 125×125, 300×250, 468×60, 160×600, 728×90



Buysellads.com is a legit website and not a scam.

BuySellAds Requirement:

There are requirements to sign up as a Publisher on BuySellAds. When you signup as a publisher, your site is not active till a buysellads.com staff member approves your website. After approval, then you will be able to sell advertising space.

Mainly your blog should have a good page rank,should have good ranking for some good keywords and a good number of subscribers to get accepted in their network.

 

  

Top 5 WordPress Plugins Widgets To Monetize your Blog

  6:15 AM    Santosh

Smart Ads

Smart Ads automatically inserts advertisements like Google's Adsense above and below your post content. These advertisements are only visible when viewing a single post (single.php or page.php). Since it doesn't make sense to fill small posts with ads, users can set a "Wordcount" minimum for their advertisements. Smart Ads will only insert advertisements into posts that meet or exceed the desired Wordcount. Also, to ensure that new content remains fresh, users can choose to only place ads on posts that are over a certain amount of days old. Advertisements can be manually disabled on a post-by-post basis while writing a post, by category, or for registered blog members.

Users can also insert custom ads into their posts or pages by using the Smart Ads shortcode. Just enter [smartads] anywhere in your post or pages to display your custom ad. Custom ads are not affected by the Wordcount or date minimum requirements and can be toggled to show on the index page or only shown when in single post view.
Ad Squares Widget

This widget makes it possible for you to display 125x125 ad squares ( or some other configurable size ) into a widget-ready bar for WordPress®. You can have just 2 squares, or as many as 8 running together. It also supports multi-widget options. So technically you could have even more than 8 if you add it to a bar more than once. Each ad square accepts any HTML/JavaScript code, so it will work with standard affiliate ads, or even with ad network codes. You can also configure the widget to shuffle the positioning of your squares if you like.

Ad Rotator

Ad Rotator is a simple WordPress widget to display random HTML code from a given group of HTML-chunks separated with <!--more--> on sidebar. Basically it shows different HTML every time you requesting page. There are infinite number of instances of this widget may exist.
AdRotator plugin is a simple file-based ad rotation solution. It was developed by Angsuman Chakraborty long time ago, but occasionally we have the same plugin names from WordPress' point of view. If you are using this plugin, you may click upgrade link from your Plugins page and it being replaced with Ad Rotator widget.

Ad Injection

Ad Injection from reviewmylife injects any kind of advert or other content (e.g. Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, ClickBank, TradeDoubler, etc) into the existing content of your WordPress posts and pages. You can control the number of adverts based on the post length, and it can restrict who sees adverts by post age, visitor referrer and IP address. Adverts can be configured in the post (random, top, and bottom positions) or in any widget/sidebar area. There's support for A:B split testing / ad rotation. And the dynamic restrictions (by IP and referrer) work with WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache and WP Cache.

Easy AdSense Lite

Easy AdSense provides a very easy way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. With its full set of features, Easy AdSense is perhaps the first plugin to give you a complete solution for everything AdSense-related.

Features
Enforces the Google policy of not more than three ad blocks per page.
Sidebar Widgets:
For AdSense for content with custom title.
For search with customizable text or image title.
For Link Units.
Rich set of Options:
Put Link Units or Ad Blocks in header or footer.
Suppress ads on all pages (as opposed to posts), or on the front/home page.
Add a customizable mouse-over border decoration on ad blocks.
Display ad blocks based on the post length.
Control over the positioning and display of AdSense blocks in each post or page.
Simplest possible configuration interface -- nothing more than cutting and pasting AdSense code, and with sensible defaults for the few options present, all with clear instructions.
Internationalized (multiple languages supported).

  

Top 6 Ways to make money online

  5:20 AM    Santosh

1. Blogging

Nowdays Blogging is the greatest way ti make money online. Most of the newbies starts with Free Blogger.com blog to get it started, if evething goes well they used to shift it to the dedicated Wordpress hosting space. Blogging is great way to make money but your blog contents should be unique to fetch good traffic. To create a Free Blog is very easy but to get traffic & live your blog with unique contents is very difficult.
My Personal suggestion is to start blog with Blogger & start writting very good & unquie posts to get traffic. Monetetize your blog with Google Adsense,Contextweb,buySellAds,Kontera etc to start revenue from your blog.
2. Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Programs is one of the top ways to make money online.
What is Affiliate Programs?
You are selling other people’s products for a commission. You can find digital products like e-books to promote on Websites like ClickBank and PayDotcom.

3. Online Surveys


Onlien Surveys is another way to make money online. Manufacture companies paid Market research companies to gather feedback from their consumers on their products. Then Market reseach companies share some amount of money with their members for filling out online surveys.
4. Make Money Posting On Forums

People who start a new forums often pay people to post on their forums, so it will look active, therefore attracts more people to join the discussion. Some of Technical Forums charge users to ask technical questions & forum paid peoples to provide answers/suggestion to the questions. If you are good in particular Technical Area such Microsoft,Apple then its very good chance to earn money.
5. Job Referrer

Most of the firms now days pay's referral bonuses of up to $1,000 for referring the right candidate for a job. Develop good relationships with recruiters and refer people who you know are fit to the job. You can do this both online and offline via Phone.

 

6. Get Paid For Your videos

Create interesting & unique videos of yourself or any technical how to guides which peoples are looking on internet upload them to Web Sites like Revver and Break. They will share a percentage of their ad revenue with you.

  

Download New VMware vSphere 5 Update 1 vSphere 5.0.1

  6:34 PM    Santosh

VMware has lauched VMware vSphere Server 5 update 1 and also for other VMware products such as vShield Edge 5.0.1, vCloud Director 1.5.1 , SRM 5.0.1, vCenter Heartbeat 6.4u1, vCenter Configuration Manager 5.5, vCenter Configuration Manager 5.5 and VMware View 5.0.1.

What’s new in vSphere 5 Update 1:
Support for new processors –Supports new AMD and Intel Processors.
Support for additional guest operating systems – Support for Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.2 and 10.7.3.
New or upgraded device drivers – Support for Native Storage Drivers for Intel C600 series chipset and upgrades LSI MegaRAID SAS driver to version 5.34.

VMware Resolved issues shows various bug fixes and solved problems

 Download VMware vSphere Server 5.0.1 Update 1





  

[Guide]VMware ESX 4.1 and 5.0 Active Directory Integration

  9:04 AM    Santosh

vSphere 4.1 offers the ability to use Active Directory for authentication. With AD integration you can use your normal domain user accounts that poses admin rights already to authenticate with your ESX. There are a couple of different ways that you can enable AD integration ( vSphere client, vCLI, scripting or Host Profiles). In this post I will cover the method through vSphere client.

Step 1: Connect to your host directly with the vSphere client. Click on the Configuration Tab. Then select the “Advanced Services” selection from the Software box on the lower left. Then you click on the “Properties” link that is shown in the picture below.


In the select “Service Type” drop down you will need to select “Active Directory”. The in the Domain field you need to type in the name of your domain that you will be connecting to. Next step is to click the “Join Domain” button and you will be presented with an authentication window. Enter your authentication details to join ESX boc to AD server.


After successfully entering your logon ID your ESXi host is added to the Domain.

Now that your VMware host was added to the domain you can now add users or groups to the Permissions tab. You can see below once on the Permissions area you right click and select “Add Permission”

Select the Administrator role from the section pointed out in the image below. click the Add button on the left side to pick your User or Group from the Active Directory connection.
Select your Domain from the domain drop down list at the top of the window shown below.
Once you have select the Domain that you integrated with you will be presented with a list of Users and Groups. You should select your User/Group and press the Add button and then click OK…

Now that you have added your Domain account or group you will see it in the lists of users as shown below.

Now Close your vSphere Client and connect it back using your newly configured Active Directory Integration. Now you have two ways to enter your Domain login credentials ( Domain\user or user@domain.com)

  

India's first Android Ice Cream sandwich (ICS) 4.0 Tablet Zync Z-990

  5:08 AM    Santosh

Zync today launched its first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Zync Z990 Tablet in India. The tablet is priced at Rs. 8,500. This tablet features a single core Vivant GC340 mobile processor and runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS without any customisation. It comes with a full USB 2.0 port that can accommodate and read from USB flash drives as well as USB data modem and also comes with a 7 inch capacitive screen that can respond to upto five point touches, so you can use your all five fingers at a time.



Zync Z-990 specifications

7-inch (800 x 480 pixels) TFT Capacitive Touch Screen display
Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
1.2 GHz processor Vivant GC340
1GB RAM, 4GB internal memory, expandable up to 32 GB
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, 3G via USB dongle, HDMI port , Micro USB port
3.5 mm audio jack and microphone
Muli-format (MP4/MPEG/ MP3/WAV/WMA ) media player
3600 mAh battery
Price Rs-8500/-

Disadvantage-

Calling Not Available

In India its available from Letsbuy.com and HomeShop18.com.

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Apple new iPhone 5 with 4.6 inch Retina Display?

  4:56 AM    Santosh

Now rumors for the third generation iPAD 3 are over and rumors about Apple iPhone are in full swing. Apple Inc's new iPhone will have a sharper and bigger 4.6-inch "retina" display and is set to be launched around the second quarter, a South Korean media reported on Thursday.

Many customers have asked for a larger screen in their iPhone, however, the iPhone 4S stayed with the iPhone 4?s form-factor. The iPhone 4/4S feature a 3.5-inch screen, that some say is too small compared to many Android devices.

Apple's next iPhone might named the iPhone 5. Lets wait & watch for new iPhone..

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[Guide] How to Add and Configure Microsoft Lync Server Common Area Phone Polycom

  11:40 AM    Santosh

I have Polycom CX500 Common Area Phone, so here I will show you how to configure Common Area phone with Microsoft Lync Server. You will find more configuration help on Microsoft TechNet URL: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg425854.aspx

1. I am going to prepare my DHCP server

Configuring DHCP Search Options

Right click on IPv4 & click on Set predefined options,

Now Click on Add to add predefined options,


Use below option types & click on OK,






Now right click on Server options & select Configure options




Select DNS Serach list & enter your string value. In my case its mytricks.in






Configuring DHCP Options to Enable Sign-in for IP Phones

This is most tricky part of Common Area phone configuration,

  • If you are using 64-bit Windows DHCP server. Then copy DHCPUtil.exe and DHCPConfigScript.bat files from the following default location on your Lync Server to the Windows Server(s) running DHCP server for subnets where any phones will be connected.


%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2010\DHCPUtil.bat
%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2010\DHCPConfigScript.bat

  • IN my case DHCP server is on windows 32-bit server so follow below steps,



  • If using 32-bit Windows DHCP servers then only copy the DHCPConfigScript.bat file from the Lync server to the DHCP server. The DHCPUtil.exe tool will be run on the Lync server locally and the output will be used to call the batch file manually on the DHCP server.


Executing DHCPutil.exe /? Will return most of the available switches and a quick read-through appear to indicate a number of switches will be necessary. The keys to using this commands are that (1) if a single Lync Server is deployed in the environment then only the -SipServer is required as the same FQDN will be used for the other settings and (2) the –RunConfigScript option needs to be included otherwise the command will only printout what changes it ‘would’ make but will not actually do anything.
So this next step is optional (and purely for education) when dealing with a 64-bit DHCP server configuration, but must be run on the Lync Server for 32-bit DHCP server configuration.

DHCPUtil.exe -SipServer lync.mytricks.in
run this command on Lync server via command prompt (Open Command prompt with “Rus as Administrator “option) (dhcputil.exe located in c:\programfiles\commonfiles\microsoft lync server)

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2010>DHCPUtil.exe –sipserver lync.mytricks.in
Below is the output of above command,
SIP Server FQDN : lync.mytricks.in
Certificate Provisioning Service URL : https:// lync.mytricks.in:443/CertProv/Cer
tProvisioningService.svc

Option 120:
00046C796E63077361676974656303636F6D00

Vendor Class Identifier: MS-UC-Client
Option 43 (for vendor=MS-UC-Client):
sub-option 1 <UC Identifier>: 4D532D55432D436C69656E74
sub-option 2 <URL Scheme>: 6874747073
sub-option 3 <Web Server FQDN>: 6C796E632E736167697465632E636F6D
sub-option 4 <Port>: 343433
sub-option 5 <Relative Path for Cert Prov>: 2F4365727450726F762F43657274
50726F766973696F6E696E67536572766963652E737663

To configure DHCP Server with appropriate values, you can do one of the following things:
1. Run DHCPUtil on the DHCP Server: use '-RunConfigScript' switch
2. Run the following command on the DHCP Server (modify the path of DHCP
ConfigScript.bat appropriately):
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2010\DHCPConfigScript.bat"
Configure MS-UC-Client 00046C796E63077361676974656303636F6D00 4D532D55432D436C69
656E74 6874747073 6C796E632E736167697465632E636F6D 343433 2F4365727450726F762F43
65727450726F766973696F6E696E67536572766963652E737663

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2010>
Then go to DHCP server (32bit)
C:\ cd Lync (location where u copied dhcpconfigscript from Lync server)
& run below command
C:\dhcpconfigscript.bat Configure MS-UC-Client 00046C796E63077361676974656303636F6D00 4D532D55432D436C69
656E74 6874747073 6C796E632E736167697465632E636F6D 343433 2F4365727450726F762F43
65727450726F766973696F6E696E67536572766963652E737663
Restart Common Area phone & try to login to the phone using pin number & extension.

To create a new Common Area Phone:

New-CsCommonAreaPhone -LineURI "tel:+17805551212;ext=5001" -RegistrarPool "pool01.contoso.com" -DisplayName "Common Area Phone" -SipAddress "sip:commonphone01@domain.com" -OU "OU=Common Phones,OU=Lync Objects,DC=contoso,DC=com"

  

[Guide] Step by Step Guide to install Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Server

  11:36 AM    Santosh



Finally I have completed Enterprise Deployment guide for microsoft Lync. This will help for new Lync users to deploy lync enterprise edition...


Software for Lync Server 2010:-
All server roles of Lync Server 2010 require one of the following operating systems:

  • The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 (Standard, Enterprise or Datacenter).


OR

  • The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 SP2 (Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter).



  1. Install all pre-requisites:-


Install all below pre-requisites on Lync machine (via Windows PowerShell Modules)
#Import-Module ServerManager
#Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Redirect,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Net-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Client-Auth,Web-Filtering,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-Scripting-Tools –Restart
Above command will install all the features required for Lync (such as IIS, .Net) and reboot the machine.
2. Installation of MS Lync 2010

Extract downloaded Lync ISO file & go to setup->amd64 & run setup.exe

It will check the availability of Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 redistributable on the system. If it's not installed, it'll give you option to install the application. Click Yes to install it.
Choose the installation location.
Accept the license agreement and click "ok".

  1. Topology Builder Installation -


Topology Builder (TB): It is must to install Topology Builder before you can deploy a Lync Server. Topology Builder helps you to define sites and servers in the setup.
Define a topology (xml file gets created).
Topology Builder validates the topology.
Publish the topology after successful validation.
Publishing it puts it into the Communications Server central management store (which is created if it does not already exist).
Click "Install Topology Builder" to install the TB. After installation of TB, it'll look like following in the deployment wizard.

  1. Preparing Active Directory


To prepare Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) for your Microsoft Lync Server 2010 deployment, perform below steps:

  • Prep Schema

  • Forest Prep

  • Domain Prep


On deploy wizard main screen, click "Prepare Active Directory" and "Run" the schema prep.


On the Schema Prep wizard, click "Next" and "Finish". This will extend the Active Directory schema for the use of Microsoft Lync Server 2010. You need to be an enterprise admin to perform this operation.
It's time for Current forest prep after you are done with schema prep.


From Active Directory Preparation wizard, "Run" the prepare forest operation (Above picture). Click "Finish" when the forest prep is done
After forest prep is successful, run domain prep for all the concerned domains in Active Directory.

Before moving further the domain Administrator account (domain admins) used throughout this process should be added as a member to the domain security groups CsAdministrator and RTCUniversalServerAdmins.
This user account should then logoff and back on to the Windows Server where Lync is being installed to update the security profile.
Create a share for Lync Server:
It will be used during Lync Server 2010 installation. Everyone should have “Read & Execute” permission. Administrators should have “Full Control”.
Share name for this purpose in this article is “Lync”. Which I have created on “edge.company.local” server.

Defining topology with the help of Topology Builder
Open the Topology Builder from Windows start menu.
Provide a name to the topology. E.g, “Pune.tbxml".


  1. On the Specify additional supported domains page, enter the names of additional domains, if any, and then click Next.



  1. On the Define the first site page, enter a name and a description for the first site, and then click Next.




  1. On the Specify site details page, enter the location information for the site, and then click Next.



Now define Front End Pool,
On the Define the Front End pool FQDN page, enter a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the pool you are creating, click Enterprise Edition

Front End Pool, and then click Next.
On the Define the computers in this pool page, enter a computer FQDN for the first Front End Server in the pool, and then click Add. Repeat this step for any additional computers (upto ten) that you want to add to the pool, and then click Next. (in our case its “lync.company.local”) our front end server.


On the Select features page, select the check boxes for the features that you want on this Front End pool
On the Select collocated server roles page, you can choose between collocating the A/V Conferencing service and the Mediation Server on the Front End Server or to deploy one or both as stand-alone servers. Associate server roles with this Front End pool page allows you to define and associate server roles
With the Front End pool

On the Define the SQL store page, do one of the following,
SQl Server name – Chennai.company.local & In my case sql server instance is default.
On the Define the file share page, do one of the following,
File server – edge.company.local
Share name - lync
Specify gateway if applicable. In my case gateway is (192.168.100.110) my asterisk box. I haven’t specified it & finish the setup.

Back at the main Topology Builder window select Edit Properties on the Lync Server 2010 root-level object. Highlight the Simple URLs section and enter the desired Administrative Access URL. (Additional for Phone Access URLs and Meeting URLs are already configured.)
Also highlight the Central Management Server section and select the new Front-End server from the drop-down menu if it is not already selected.



Now publish Lync topology,



By now Backend SQL instance will have databases e.g Lis,rtc ,rtcab, XDS etc. Also, the
Shared folder (i.e. Lync server c:\Lync)
DNS Records:
Create following three hostnames on “company. Local” Domain Controller
Dialin.company.local
Meet. company.local
Admin. company.local
Pool. company.local
All three hostnames should point to the IP Address of the enterprise edition server

Done.
Installation of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 binaries
On the Lync Server 2010 page, next to Step1: Install Local Configuration Store, click Run
On the Local Server Configuration page, ensure that the Retrieve configuration automatically from the Central Management Store option is selected, and then click Next



Run “setup or remove Lync Server components” wizard.
Certificate for Lync Server
You can either user certificates from the internal Certification Authority (CA), or you can get the certificates from the public CA. Since this certificate will be used only for the internal purpose, it makes sense to get the certificate from internal CA.


  1. On the Certificate Wizard page, click Request.


On the Certificate Request page, click next
On the Choose a certificate Authority (CA) page, select the Select a CA from the list detected in your environment option




On the Name and Security Settings page, specify a Friendly Name
On the Subject Name / Subject Alternate Names page, review the subject alternative names that will be added, and then click Next
On the SIP Domain setting page, select the SIP Domain, and then click Next
Reboot the server. And, that’s all as far as installation of Lync Server 2010 is concerned.


Don’t forget to create the corresponding SRV record to enable auto configuration at the clients end
Test Enterprise deployment,
Open Lync Control Panel & click on enable users for Lync Server
Click on Add,

Enter Username & Click on Find,

For user “Santosh” I have enabled Enterprise voice & assigned extension number 2000.

Now open Lync Client & enter user credentials to login to the Lync,



  

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