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Microsoft back in October released an LRS deployment guide (if you reviewed this upon release it was beta, so it’s worth re-reviewing the 1.0 version), however if you’re just looking to create a standard account with associated Exchange room mailbox follow the 10 easy steps below! Run the following within Exchange Management Shell (these steps […]

Thursday, January 9th, 2014 at 18:46 | 2 comments
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UCS 5.0 delivers a wealth of new Lync related capabilities: Better Together-over-Ethernet (AKA BToE) Support for the Lync Software Updates Service (UCS 5 onwards updates can be pushed out via the Lync Server rather than a Polycom provisioning server) Lync Address Book Call Park Lync Status (Lync configuration information delivered via the handset) Boss/Admin (sharing […]

Friday, September 13th, 2013 at 22:52 | 0 comments
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A year ago I posted an article that detailed an update for the CX7000, specifically version 1.1, this introduced a number of new features one major feature being support for Office 365. However there was a calendaring limitation, the scenario is whereby you book a meeting and invite the CX7000 or mailbox associated to the […]

Friday, August 30th, 2013 at 19:44 | 0 comments
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  This may perhaps be a niche case as I’m aware there aren’t many folks than have braved split-domain configuration with Lync on-prem and Lync Online, but to those that have (and still see the value in this type of deployment, which even without telephony there still is I might add), you are likely at […]

Friday, August 23rd, 2013 at 18:15 | 0 comments
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This week I had the pleasure of attending Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, this is a major event for partners and an opportune moment for vendors like Polycom to showcase their latest and greatest solutions for Microsoft customers (in our case Lync). Polycom announced two updates: 1) The next generation CX5000 (or for Microsoft purists the […]

Friday, July 12th, 2013 at 22:23 | 0 comments
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In my previous post I walked through the process of registering a Lync Phone Edition handset directly with Lync Online, I also promised I’d re-visit this and provide a similar walk through for a split domain configuration. Introduction to “Split-domain” Prior to the Wave 15 Office 365 the only option for Lync split tenancy would […]

Friday, May 10th, 2013 at 15:53 | 8 comments
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