Elan Shudnow\'s Blog. There’s documentation available by Microsoft on how to enable Quality of Services (Qo. S) in Lync which you can find here. Second of all, the question may arise, why and when would you want to enable Qo. S? For Attendant clients, Lync 2.

Elan Shudnow\'s Blog. There’s documentation available by Microsoft on how to enable Quality of Services (Qo. S) in Lync which you can find here. Second of all, the question may arise, why and when would you want to enable Qo. S? For Attendant clients, Lync 2.

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A tip on how you can use Windows PowerShell to disable a binding on a network adapter on servers running Windows Server 2012. You can enable and disable bindings on a. Welcome to Part 2 on how to Enabe QoS for Lync Server 2013 and Various Clients. The purpose of this multi-part article is to lay everything out in a concise manner to.

Attendant is the current solution and the executable name is Attendant. Console. exe. Policy based QOS has the benefit that you can restrict the Qo. S application at the application level. For Lync 2. 01. 3, this would be lync. Windows XP uses separate QOS Group Policy Options that do not allow you to restrict the DSCP values at the application level. To specify the client media port ranges, Set- CSConferencing. Configuration must be used.

The port ranges for each modality must not conflict with another modality. Also, it is highly recommended to ensure that when each modality is locked down to its own port range that all ports are contiguous as this will make configuring Group Policy later on a bit easier as you will see later on in the article. The command used to enable the ability to lock down peer to peer client ports is Set- Cs. Conferencing. Configuration with the Client. Media. Port. Range. Enabled set to 1.

When disabled (the default value) any available port (from port 1. The reason why this uses 4. Office Communicator 2. R2 did not split apart each modality into their own separate switches. Because Lync Server 2. IM/Presence from Office Communicator R2 clients, if you are in a Lync Server 2. Lync 2. 01. 0 Servers, Client.

Media. Port. Range is unnecessary to configure. One thing to note however, is the Lync 2. Windows Vista and is only supported in Windows 7 and Windows 8. In the below example, we will show how to create the Policy- based Qo. S for Audio. Open up Group Policy (in my examples, I am using Local Computer Policy but in a real production environment you would be using Group Policy at some level in your Domain Hierarchy) and navigate to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Policy- based Qo. S. Click Next. On the following screen, make sure you leave the defaults as “Any source IP address” and “Any destination IP Address.”  Click Next. On  the following screen, choose TCP and UDP.

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Right- Click Policy- based Qo. S and choose Create new policy. In the new Policy, give it a name and specify the DSCP Value. Click Next. On the following screen, make sure you leave the defaults as “Any source IP address” and “Any destination IP Address.”  Click Next. On  the following screen, choose TCP and UDP.

After finished, you will have 5 client GPO policies and will look like the following: Now go ahead and restart your Lync clients so they pick up the changes. After Group Policy have applied the settings, you should see the following settings within the registry: Also, if you are in Workgroup Mode and notice that DSCP Values are not being applied, you may have to apply the following registry key: Windows Registry Editor Version 5. Then Choose Install. Make sure to choose Service.

The DSCP Value for Audio will be 4. DSCP Value for Video will be 3. Open up Group Policy (in my examples, I am using Local Computer Policy but in a real production environment you would be using Group Policy at some level in your Domain Hierarchy) and navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates  > Network > Qo. S Packet Scheduler. The section we will be working with is, “DSCP value of conforming packets.”  You do not need to modify “DSCP value of non- conforming packets.” And the two options within “DSCP value of conforming packets” we will be working with is: Controlled load service type (For Video with a DSCP Value of 3. Guaranteed service type (For Audio with a DSCP Value of 4.

Let’s go ahead and set the DSCP Value for Video (Controlled load service type). Then click OK. Let’s go ahead and set the DSCP Value for Audio (Guaranteed service type). Then click OK. After Group Policy have applied the settings, you should see the following two settings set within the registry: Now hop on your Lync Server and open the Lync Management Shell and type the following command: Set- Cs. Media. Configuration - Enable. Qo. S $true. This command should set your Windows XP and/or Windows Server 2. Configuring QOS for Lync Phone Edition. Configuring Lync Phone Edition Qo.

S is really simple and there’s really only one step. We can see the default value by running the following: Get- Cs. UCPhone. Configuration. Identity             : Global Calendar. Poll. Interval : 0. Enforce. Phone. Lock     : True Phone.

Lock. Timeout     : 0. Min. Phone. Pin. Length    : 6 SIPSecurity.

Mode      : High Voice. Diff. Serv. Tag     : 4.

Voice. 80. 21p           : 0 Logging. Level         : Off. To set this value to 4. Identity blank will modify the global settings): Set- Cs. UCPhone. Configuration - Voice.

Diff. Serv. Tag 4. Surprisingly, that’s all there is to it for enabling Qo. S to Lync Phone Edition.

Working as intended! Conclusion. In this Part 1 on how to enable QOS for Lync Server 2. QOS for Lync 2. 01. Lync 2. 01. 3 clients, and the Attendant Console.