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LYNC SERVER COOKBOOK

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LYNC SERVER COOKBOOK

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Lync Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Capturing network traffic with Wireshark


Wireshark is an open source (GNU) tool used to capture and analyze network traffic. It is often used to troubleshoot Lync issues or to deep dive into the network traffic related to a specific feature. In addition to this, Wireshark adds to the standard debugging tools the capability to decrypt SSL/TLS traffic. It is really important for issues related to the Lync web services. We will see some hints related to installing and using it.

Getting ready

Wireshark is available for download at https://www.wireshark.org/. We will use the latest stable release, 1.12.0, on our Lync Front End (installed on Windows Server 2012 R2) by downloading the matching Windows installer (64 bit) Wireshark-win64-1.12.0.exe.

How to do it...

  1. Select Next on the first installation screen and the I Agree on the License Agreement screen.

  2. We have to select the components to install (the Wireshark 2 preview is not required), and select Next, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. In the...