With the Lync Server 2010 Bandwidth Calculator, you can enter information about your users and the Lync Server features that you want to deploy, and the calculator will determine bandwidth requirements for the WAN that connects sites in your deployment. The package contains a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet...

Microsoft released a spreadsheet for calculating a user’s hardware requirements based on information that the admin supplies about number of users, types of communication, and expected traffic. Includes a Microsoft Word document explaining the tool and how to use it. Download from Source...

You can use Microsoft Lync Server 2013, Best Practices Analyzer to identify and resolve problems with your Lync Server deployment. The Lync Server 2013, Best Practices Analyzer gathers configuration information from Lync Server 2013 components. With the proper network access, the Best Practices Analyzer...

Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Debugging Tools is a collection of additional tools for use by IT Admins to aid in troubleshooting Lync Server 2013 deployments. The collection of tools include: Snooper OCSLogger OCSTracer ClsController.psm1 Download from Source

Great Tool to help in simplifying Lync Enterprise Voice Deployment much more easier. Check at Source More details and complete guide .

This reliability tool tests your Internet connection to a Microsoft Lync Online Service data center and measures the response times, bandwidth, allowed ports, route taken, and overall connection quality with respect to Real Time Media. The results can help you evaluate your network configuration for...

The Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit Tools contain the following tools. The details of each tool and their usage are described in the accompanying documentation. ABSConfig (Please note, in order to use the ABSConfig Tool, you must upgrade to the latest version of Lync Server 2010 which is...

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A full description of RUCT is available here , and the tool can be downloaded here . Below is a summary of what the tool can do: 1. Easily Query Important DNS Records used by Microsoft Lync Server and OCS . DNS queries for the following Lync and OCS records are issued with one-click: All...

This spreadsheet can be used for calculating a user’s hardware requirements based on information that the admin supplies about number of users, types of communication, and expected traffic. Includes a Microsoft Word document explaining the tool and how to use it. The spreadsheet was updated in...

The Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit is the technical reference for the product. This book extends the product planning, deploying, and managing documentation in the Lync Technical Library. This book serves as a companion to the product documentation to learn how the product works under the hood. The...

The planning phase is the time in which you decide what Microsoft Lync Server 2010 communications software features to deploy, and how to deploy them. The Planning Guide chapters describe how to plan for a successful Lync Server 2010 deployment. The Planning Guide contains the following chapters as...

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that calculates WAN bandwidth requirements for a Lync Server deployment based on administrator-specified user profiles and network information. With the Lync Server 2010 Bandwidth Calculator, you can enter information about your users and the Lync Server features that...

Microsoft released the Lync Server 2010 Edge Server Reference Architecture Diagrams: Reference Architecture 1: Single Consolidated Edge Reference Architecture 2: Scaled Consolidated Edge (DNS Load Balanced) Reference Architecture 3: Scaled Consolidated Edge (Hardware Load Balanced) ...

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Capacity Calculator A spreadsheet for calculating a user’s hardware requirements based on information that the admin supplies about number of users, types of communication, and expected traffic. Includes a Microsoft Word document explaining the tool and how to use...

The Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Best Practices Analyzer is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Lync Server environment. Download from here . Overview You can use Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Best Practices Analyzer to identify and resolve problems...

The Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Planning Tool will asks you a series of questions about your organization and the features that you are interested in. The planning tool will then use your answers to recommend a topology based on the tested Microsoft Lync Server 2010 user model. Your organization may...

This poster shows each workload in Lync Server 2010, describing relationships, dependencies, the servers that initiate connections, and certificate requirements. Relationships between Microsoft Lync 2010 communications software, Microsoft Lync 2010 Phone Edition, Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, Microsoft...

DNS Load Balancing Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 requires a Hardware Load Balancer (HLB) to provide resilience for the Enterprise pool. This configuration is both expensive and difficult to configure for SIP load balancing. Lync 2010 introduces DNS load balancing as an alternative to...