Archive for September, 2010
As many of you may well know the long awaited public release candidate of Microsoft Lync 2010 (previously Communications Server ‘14’) is now available for download. This major new release offers a radical difference to the previous architecture and unlike it’s predecessors (Communications Server 2007 R1/2 and to a certain degree Live Communications Server 2005) offers a streamlined and consolidated deployment, great for smaller scale implementations which are not overly abundant to date.
This guide will run through a consolidated standard edition install (without voice gateway integration, I’ll try and come back to this later), whereby all roles will be deployed on a single virtual machine except monitoring, archiving and edge roles – yes this is a supported scenario!
Today is a big day for the Communications Server (or now Lync Server) product group, firstly the release of a final name, Microsoft Lync Server 2010 – there were rumours doing the rounds and the strange appearance of a blog here seamed to be the catalyst for this, even though the majority of the screenshots were […]
For those that have not seen this already, this is a fabulous video made back in the 1960’s, I’d previously seen a short version (great for embedding in a deck of slides at a UC presentation as an ice breaker). Just remember, this is not Carry on Telecoms!
It’s not always straight forward quantifying the savings of UC, the benefits are far easier to get your head around. But when we deployed Communications Server 2007 R2 within our organisation we knew it would slash the extortionate conferencing charges we had been paying – our estimate was in excess of £50,000 per annum! During the […]
No I am not going completely cuckoo, those who live in the UK and are showing signs of grey hair (or going bald in my case) will remember the slogan “Follow the bear”, which was paired with the iconic Hofmeister bear advert. Whilst I am no bear, I strongly encourage those who are interested in more up-to-date UC […]
