Symptoms

The request to the Lync API to add a number block fails:

[root@server ~]# cat provisioning-block.json
{
    "blockName": "Test block",
    "blockType": "10 number block",
    "subscriptionId": 1103303
}
[root@iep-osb-bworksa1 lync]# curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json, text/javascript" -i "http://<LYNC_END_POINT>:8033/provisioning/block" -d "@provisioning-block.json" -X POST; echo
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Length: 92
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Expires: -1
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.0
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:16:05 GMT
{"code":500,"message":"Application Instance not found","additionalNonlocalizableMessage":""}

Cause

The case has been confirmed as internal product issue with id #APSA-8641

Resolution

Will be fixed in future product updates.

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