Posts Tagged ‘Lync 2010’

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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Previously Communicator 2007 self-help documentation would need to be downloaded independently and made available to your end-users via a network share or embedded within your chosen Intranet platform, but did you know that with the Lync 2010 client help is always close to hand? For easy access to videos and short how-to pictorials take the [...]

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 23:54 | 0 comments
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It’s refreshing to know that Microsoft heavily road test or “dog food” their products before they ship to their customers, what is even more impressive is how transparent they are on their challenges/successes. A quick reference guide detailing the story from a high-level can be downloaded via the Microsoft Download Center. Excerpt below: Results: MSIT offers [...]

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 at 19:26 | 1 comment
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A Communicator bugbear of mine (experienced with Communications Server 2007), was the inability to click-to-call via non-UC enabled applications – for the most part , I am referring to the web. Copy and paste was the story of my life (usually this also meant deleting 0′s and adding +’s for e.164 compatibility), my desperation even lead [...]

Friday, January 7th, 2011 at 19:25 | 0 comments
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Last month I asked all readers to submit their favourite new piece of Lync functionality in aim of a “personal favourite” being picked on January 1st (today) and the winner receiving a Polycom CX300 used at TechEd 2010.  The winning feature was submitted by Adler Catalin, his/her comment was: The best feature is that is became so simple and [...]

Saturday, January 1st, 2011 at 11:24 | 0 comments
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