Posts Tagged ‘Polycom’
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 […]
I’ve not mentioned it previously, but earlier in the year I joined Polycom as a UC Architect. It’s an exciting role for someone like myself, I get to listen/learn and advise customers on their UC strategy, assist in the development of new and existing solutions and most importantly talk about Lync on a daily basis! […]
OCS and Lync interoperability along with RMX is nothing new, in fact integration with OCS dates back as far as 2009. Nevertheless the RMX hasn’t (until now) reached the accolades of Microsoft qualification status. So what does qualification really mean? In some cases vendors go from zero interoperability/ functionality to qualified status overnight, obviously in […]
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 […]
Off the back of my participation at Tech-Ed 2010 a very kind Microsoft employee named “Albert”, donated one of the CX300 devices used to demonstrate Lync at the product stand. I could of course hold on to this fantastic device – the CX300 is a personal favourite of mine, but instead I thought how about […]
Whilst at Tech-Ed 2010 I had the opportunity to help the Microsoft Lync product folks on the Lync stand, it was a great chance to assist Microsoft’s new and existing UC customers with their Lync queries. Strangely one of the top questions I personally received was “What is Lync, is it Language Integrated Query (Linq) on steroids?” […]
