Archive for May, 2011

I had an interesting Lync Edge Server encounter a week or so back and I thought I’d share the solution to my problem, especially given that Google (or Bing for the matter) didn’t shed any light on the issue. The scenario (for me anyways) was whereby I had pushed a blank policy to my Edge […]

Monday, May 30th, 2011 at 16:07 | 2 comments
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For those interested in downloading my deck from Microsoft UK TechDays 2011 on Monday, I have made the slides available below. It appears the folks at Microsoft have, not surprisingly, had their hands full and videos/resources are yet to be made available via the TechDays site (watch this space). Until then my slides are below: […]

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 at 23:17 | 0 comments
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I just received an e-mail from Digium – see below (the makers of Asterisk), informing Skype for Asterisk customers that MicroSkype have chosen not to renew their agreement.  Fingers crossed this is not a sign that Microsoft intend on restricting 3rd party integration with the Skype service? Product notification: Skype for Asterisk will not be available for sale […]

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 at 20:23 | 0 comments
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A few months back I was asked by the kind folks at Train Signal if I’d be interested in creating Lync training videos, specifically geared towards the IT community – and accessible at no cost! I really liked the idea and my first contribution has now gone live – here (a video version of my […]

Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at 07:30 | 59 comments
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I recently had a requirement to run through a new lab installation of Lync Server, I wanted to use my existing test Active Directory and ensure that once I’d completed testing I could roll back to my initial test server.

For those that have tried to create an entirely new installation in this scenario, you’ll be familiar with the need to remove references to your existing Central Management Store location, in my case I didn’t want to migrate or move my existing topology, just disregard it – albeit temporarily.

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 18:50 | 2 comments
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Just a few hours ago Microsoft announced that they had purchased Skype for a whopping $8.5 billion, so now begins the predictions – how will this change Microsoft’s suite of communications products, most notably Lync. Short of asking SteveB (sorry not even us MVPs only get an opertunity to do this more than once a year – […]

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 at 18:25 | 0 comments
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