Microsoft Lync 2010 for the iPhone and iPad Released

More information cross-posted on InsideLync.com: Microsoft Lync 2010 for the iPhone and iPad Released.

Federating OCS 2007 R2 and Lync Online in Office 365 Beta

I recently federated an on-premise OCS 2007 R2 deployment with a Lync Online domain, and wanted to highlight something that is not well documented.
The procedure is largely the same on from the on-premise OCS Edge has it is for adding any other Federated partner – you add the Federated partners SIP domain has an Allow [...]

5 Tips for Configuring a Voice Gateway with Lync 2010

Here are 5 useful tips I found while recently configuring Lync inbound and outbound PSTN calling through an AudioCodes voice gateway – including some new features in Lync that made the job easier.

Tip #1: Use the new ‘Test Voice Routing’ Feature in the Lync Control Panel

The Test Voice Routing feature (in the “Voice Routing” section of [...]

Microsoft Lync Launch Recap

If you missed todays official Microsoft Lync Launch event, here is a recap of the highlights:

Lync will be Generally Available on Dec 1, 2010 in  38 languages in 150 countries around the world.
Bill Gates made an special appearance over high definition video.  He referred to Lync as being the most important productivity tool for the [...]

Top 10 Links for Lync

This week has been a flurry of activity with the re-branding of OCS and the Release Candidate being made publicly available.

Here is a list or 10 resources I found useful for getting up and running with Microsoft Lync Server 2010:

The Microsoft Lync Home Page on TechNet
Microsoft TechNet System Requirements, Planning Primer, Lab Deployment Guide
Introducing Microsoft [...]

OCS Renamed to “Microsoft Lync” & Public Release Candidate Available

Introducing….

Some significant announcements today – the next release of OCS, Microsoft Communications Server “14” (aka ‘Communications Server 2010’), and the associated client software (e.g. Office Communicator, Live Meeting, etc…) have all been re-branded under the name “Microsoft Lync”.

The official Microsoft press release can be viewed here: Microsoft Lync: A New Name for a New Generation [...]

Configuring OCS Simultaneous Ring with CUCM 7.1

I recently co-authored a Microsoft Next Hop article that gives an introduction to configuring Direct SIP between Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 and Cisco Call Manager 7.1 – see Direct SIP: Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.1. This post gives addition information about further integrating the systems from an end user perspective.

In addition to the information in [...]

July 2010 Updates to Communicator and OCS (Cumulative Update 6)

There has been a new round of updates for Communicator 2007 R2, OCS 2007 R2, and OCS 2007 R2 Group Chat – known as Cumulative Update 6 (CU6).

** Sept 2, 2010 Update **: Microsoft has temporarily removed the Cumulative Update 6 (CU6) until an issue with the Response Group Service can be fixed. See News: Office [...]

Issue Launching the Live Meeting Client for Hosted Live Meetings

On a desktop I use regularly, I had a nagging Live Meeting issue when trying to attend a hosted Live Meeting. After clicking the “Join Meeting” link I received the following error:

I had always assumed the root cause was that the Live Meeting client was getting confused between on-premise and  hosted live meetings because I [...]