Posts Tagged ‘Lync 2010’

Those that use Mac OS will no doubt be aware that there are a number of limitations within the Communicator for Mac client, most notable being that inability to experience the full conferencing capability of Lync (Lync Web App does go some way to address this). Also unlike the PC Lync client it is unable to hookup […]

Friday, September 9th, 2011 at 21:08 | 3 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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Time does fly when you are having fun, or in my case on what felt like a mammoth (2 weeks) vacation with the family/kids. We decided to bite the bullet and do the Orlando/Disney World thing following the success of Disneyland Paris a year back. Of course I’m not quite sure who enjoyed it more me […]

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 at 16:20 | 0 comments
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Tonnes of new Lync documentation and tools have been made available in recent weeks, highlights include: Security Guide Uninstalling/Decommissioning Lync Server Troubleshooting Clients Bandwidth Calculator and User’s Guide (a great resource for granular information about bandwidth planning) Resource Kit Book Chapters: Enterprise Voice Response Group Service SharePoint Integration Taken from NextHop: here

Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at 08:56 | 0 comments
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My workplace (like many other early adopters of Communications Server) are still enjoying the perks of OCS 2007 R2 and one of the most frequent questions I get is how do I get your ring tone? Until now I have been scratching my head trying to understand how I had managed to update it myself, somehow my […]

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at 11:50 | 0 comments
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Prior to Lync CU1 (released in January), all manually created locations needed to validated against a Master Street Address Guide or MSAG (a database used to find the appropriate emergency service number that a 911 call should be routed to). The problem is that outside of North America this functionality ceases to exist and therefore those […]

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at 00:20 | 4 comments
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