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It was almost a year ago when I wrote up a blog post on a new role within the next installment of Lync Server (now Skype for Business Server 2015) that Microsoft refers to as “VIS”. At that time information was limited. Microsoft had shown us a demo at Lync Conference 2014, but for the […]
The Lync Room System folks have been busy as of late and a load of updates have been delivered over the last week (in time for Thanksgiving :)), first of all the 15.12 update. This update includes a number of enhancements, notably: Adds functionality to make public switch telephone network (PSTN) calls and adds a Find […]
When scheduling a Lync meeting it’s important that you add your Lync meeting credentials to the Outlook invitation, this is a fairly obvious requirement and in the case whereby this isn’t added you could of course create an ad-hoc or “Meet Now” conference. However when you’re using a Lync Room System forgetting to add these “blobs” to your invitation […]
Back at Lync Conference 2014 Dustin Hannifin and I co-presented on the various video interoperability options available for Lync 2013. I’m specifically calling out Lync 2013 as the video enhancements, specifically the addition of H.264 SVC, created challenges when integrating existing Lync 2010 video solutions. For those that want to know more on this subject […]
Last year at Lync Conference 2013 Microsoft announced that they were going to introduce a new video interoperability component to Lync vNext, namely the “Video Interoperability Server” or (VIS). During the conference Mike Stacy, Jeff Schertz and I presented a session on Lync 2013 video interoperability, during the session we covered off these three pillars […]
The new year brings a number of events I’d like to call out, firstly this month a number of great user groups. For those in North America check out the Lync User Groups website (I’ll be hosting the Silicon Valley Lync User Group together with Alex Lewis on the 23rd of Jan). If you’re based in […]
