I hit another small bump in the road with Lync Server 2010. IM was working in the test environment but I was unable to do any application sharing or screen sharing with folks. I found out from Microsoft that this is a peer to peer connection... I assumed everything was proxied through the server so was focusing on the ports on that server.
I had a Group Policy firewall rule that allowed the old R2 communicator client in/out the firewall and forgot to update it with the new client file location. Instead of a rule allowing "c:\program files\Microsoft Office Communicator\communicator.exe" - I added one to allow "c:\program files\Microsoft Lync\communicator.exe"
After a gpupdate /force on the server and a gpupdate /force on my client machines, it worked.
can you just give a brief rundown of how you create the group policy.
ReplyDeletei have the same problem and its bugging
Just use the "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" spot in your GPO.
ReplyDeleteComputer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
From there, create a new inbound rule for your Lync Client. Make sure to type in the exact location of the Lync client on your client machines.