Posts Tagged ‘Lync Server 2010’

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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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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+ For those that are running Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (update: or Lync Server) Edge Services without an externally published Communicator Web Access (CWA) or BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 (ahem – with SP3 applied) and would still like to use OCS/Lync IM and Presence for both iPhone and BlackBerry devices read on… This can be achieved using a FREE 3rd […]

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 at 11:42 | 14 comments
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The latest batch of Lync cumulative updates are detailed below, be aware some links are still in the process of being updated. Server-side updates Lync 2010 Group Chat Server – KB2500447 – download Lync 2010 Group Chat Admin – KB2500445 – download Client-side updates Lync 2010 (Communicator) – KB2496325 – download (x86 / x64) Lync 2010 Phone […]

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 at 12:36 | 0 comments
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