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This is a blog for John Weber. One of my joys in life is helping others get ahead in life. Content here will be focused on that from this date forward. John was a Skype for Business MVP (2015-2018) - before that, a Lync Server MVP (2010-2014). I used to write a variety of articles (https://tsoorad.blogspot.com) on technical issues with a smattering of other interests. I have a variety of certifications dating back to Novell CNE and working up through the Microsoft MCP stack to MCITP multiple times. FWIW, I am on my third career - ex-USMC, retired US Army. I have a fancy MBA. The opinions expressed on this blog are mine and mine alone.

2016/02/02

Inter-pool Dial in Conference Transfer (SfB)

The Scenario

Doing an upgrade of the entire environment, Lync 2010 to Skype for Business Server 2015 – on-premises.  The existing dialin conferencing was ITSP to Avaya 6.3 SM to Lync 2010 Mediation server.  In this case the mediation servers were a separate pool from the FE pool.

The Issue

When we moved the first pilot users to the new pool and then tested against use cases, the dialin conferencing failed.  Oooops!  Some tracing and sharking of wires, along with looking at the client-side logs was pretty clear.  The call landed on the Lync 2010 mediation server just fine, the conferencing attendant on the Lync 2010 FE (and the proper one at that) picked up the call, but then promptly dropped the call during the conference identification phase. 

The Fix

I have seen this issue before, back in the murky days (daze?).  But usually you see this with simul ring or call forwarding out of the system to the PSTN.  See this here for some background.  I had thought this was fixed in Lync 2013 as I had not seen this for a long time.  And then, for some reason I thought it had been fixed in SfB.  But, apparently maybe not.  And specifically, if you are doing 2010 pools to SfB pools.  See this here for the exact error (or at least a reasonable approximation).

So off we went to the trunk configuration, set the refer support to NONE, and magically our dialin conferencing calls worked as expected.  We got by with doing the global trunk configuration, you may need to be a bit more granular.

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