NextHop: Lync Online: Lync-to-Phone: What It Is and How It Works
Lync-to-phone for Office 365 gives your business the power of a complete communications system without having to install any costly equipment. With an appropriate Office 365 service plan and a...
View ArticleThe Lync Insider: PlanetMagpie Helps Write a Lync 2013 Certification Exam
We interrupt the “Moving to Lync Server 2013″ series for a special post! At the end of last year, we were approached by a Microsoft vendor in Washington State. The vendor was contacting Lync subject...
View ArticleDeveloping Lync: Video Walkthrough: CRMEnhance for Microsoft Dynamics CRM and...
In this short (2 min) video I quickly walk through the latest release of CRMEnhance for Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Lync. I talk about 3 key features: Incoming Call Lookup (00:10) Enhanced...
View Articleariprotheroe: #Lync Question 12: What is new in Lync 2013 Client CU1
Apart from the usual stability and performance improvements, there are the following: Under Lync Options and then Alerts there are the following new options Enables users to hide offline contacts in...
View ArticleVoIPNorm: Northwest Microsoft UC User Groups Portland, Seattle and Boise...
What’s Your Unified Communications Strategy?Come to hear other’s strategies as well! We are a forum for computer professionals in the Portland, Boise and Seattle areas who are interested in gaining and...
View ArticleConfused Amused: Lync Music on Hold with Media Gateways
With the CU7 release Microsoft has added Music on Hold abilities to the Lync Phone Edition clients. Many organizations are starting to turn this feature on now, but it’s possible that external PSTN...
View ArticleJustin Morris on UC: Lync 2013 February 2013 Cumulative Update Released
February brings the first cumulative update for Lync 2013 since release. This update includes the following improvements on the RTM code: Enables users to hide offline contacts in the contact list....
View ArticleNextHop: Interview with a Lync Pro: Matt Landis
The Microsoft Lync Server technical community is full of knowledgeable IT professionals who work tirelessly to share their wealth of experience and expertise with the world. They blog, tweet, deliver...
View ArticleMatt Landis: Get To Know Me & Some Tips on Lync Voice in Interview on NexHop...
Justin Morris has taken time out of his busy schedule to do an interview of me for his “Interview with a Lync Pro” Series on the Microsoft Lync team’s NexHop site. If you can’t get to the Lync...
View ArticleNorthern Lync: Complete Lync 2013 Installation Guide including – Edge Server...
Hello All Part 4 of the 6 part series on how to install and configure a fully functional Lync 2013 enterprise edition deployment. Please check out the other parts at the links below Part 1 Complete...
View ArticleMicrosoft UC and Other Stuff: Cross-Post: Lync Environment Documentation Script
This post is just to get the word out a bit wider about a script that my colleague, Chris Cook, has developed. Basically this script will gather complete information about a Lync environment (server...
View ArticleLync Team Blog: Don’t miss the Virtual Launch Event for the New Office 365...
Join us at our Virtual Launch Event on February 27th as we celebrate the availability of a major new release coming to Office 365 for businesses. If you are exploring cloud offerings, you do not want...
View ArticleElan Shudnow: Enabling QoS for Lync Server 2013 and Various Clients – Part 1
There’s documentation available by Microsoft on how to enable Quality of Services (QoS) in Lync which you can find here. I have a previous article series on enabling QoS for Lync 2010 here. This...
View ArticleMatt Landis: Tweeting Live from Lync Conference 2013
If you were not able to make it to Lync Conference 2013: I’m sorry to hear that! But I will try to do my job and bring you any announcements/cool new products/vendor product & interview videos via...
View ArticleLync Development: Lync Conference next week
I’m very excited to be attending the first Lync Conference next week in San Diego. It looks like it will be a great event, with so many people who are interested in Lync collected in one place. On...
View ArticleMicrosoft UC and Other Stuff: Lync 2013 February Updates and Downloads
A few Lync 2013 related updates and downloads were made available this month. I will update this post when the new server updates are available.Clients (15.0.4454.1506) Lync 2013 (32-bit) – Download–...
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