Playing around with Lync 2013 install. I have a test environment with on DC installed running 2008 R2 SP1. Two Exchange 2010 SP2 servers with some mailboxes on them and a Lync 2013 server. I installed Lync 2013 and everything went OK as far as I can see. I installed an internal CA on the DC for certificates. No external access at this time. Just internal IM and presence.
This is all VM's. I built a VM Windows 7 client and installed Outlook and Lync. The Lync client comes up fine but I can't download the address book. I get the dreaded "Address book syncrhonizing. results may not be current". I did all the Googling and did the Registry hacks to speed up this process, but something else is not right I think. I don't know where to start to troubleshoot this problem. I have created 3 users on the Lync server and they look fine. I just can't add any contacts regardless of which user I log in as. The files GAL files aren't even being created in the path under the users profile. Not even sure how this process works because I am new to Lync itself. Does the Lync server download the GAL from Exchange and the clients download it from the Lync server? I installed the version of SQL that comes with the Server bits. SQL Express I guess. How do you manage the databases? I did not see SQL Studio or anything on the Lync Server.

I put this under Conferencing software because I could not find a Lync topic. If I should include it somewhere else, let me know. I am sure I will have a lot of Lync questions in the future.