Posts Tagged ‘Lync Server 2010’

You may be wondering why this is such a significant piece of news? (or not if you are already in the know!) Service Pack 3 for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) v.5.0 delivers the highly anticipated BlackBerry device support for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Lync Server 2010. Until now R2 access was delivered via a […]

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 at 09:26 | 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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I just caught a post over at “UnplugThePBX“, (a fellow Lync MVP blog) – and it turns out that Microsoft are adding Lync to their enterprise level CAL suites. This is great news for businesses that currently own a Core CAL and would like to “dip their toe in the water” and discover how enterprise IM and presence […]

Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 20:09 | 0 comments
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I just found myself glued to a Channel 9 video that features a US development organisation Gold Systems. Using UCMA 3.0 (the Lync Server development API) they demonstate some impressive CEBP examples, typically applicable to a Contact Centre environment. Very impressive stuff and a solid example on why the Microsoft UC stack has a great […]

Sunday, March 20th, 2011 at 00:19 | 4 comments
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I have come across various posts within the TechNet forums for Lync Server 2010 installations that have failed where Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 is applied. Whilst SP1 is supported the following error is experienced: Executing external command: C:\Windows\system32\dism.exe /online /norestart /add-package /packagepath:C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-Media-Format-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.7600.16385.mum /ignorecheck MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM Installation result: -2146762496   MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM Error: Prerequisite installation failed: Wmf2008R2 Some have […]

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at 11:41 | 2 comments
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Looking for Lync Server 2010 Virtualisation best practice, if the answer is YES, then help is at hand. Microsoft have published an extremely helpful white paper to cover off this very subject. Check out an excerpt taken from the TOC below: 1.1         What is Virtualization?. 1.2         Why Virtualize?. 2       Virtualization in Lync Server 2010. 2.1         Terminology. 2.2         […]

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 22:58 | 0 comments
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