Remember when presence was an indicator of your availability to communicate? It was empowering to know that you could control interruptions and be ready to collaborate with others if they needed you. Fast forward to the era of…Perma-Busy! I am...

By BJ Haberkorn, Director Lync Product Marketing We are thrilled to announce the availability of Lync-Skype connectivity for Lync customers around the world. This marks our first important step in extending Lync’s unified communications capabilities...

By Girija Bhagavatula, Senior Program Manager, Lync Server Team If you are a Lync Mobile user on Windows Phone or iOS then you should be aware that starting June 1 st it is possible that some of you might see errors in receiving push notifications to...

By Roshin Lal Ramesan, Senior Program Manager, Lync Mobile Team When you’re in a Lync online meeting using Lync 2013 app for iPad , you can view shared PowerPoint presentations and see desktop and applications shared in the meeting. Viewing of content...

By Giovanni Mezgec, GM, Lync Marketing Last week, I attended Enterprise Connect 2013 , the largest conference focusing on the unified communications industry. When Microsoft first came to this show many years ago, we were considered an outsider and...

By Angela Chin, Program Manager, Lync Mobile Team Lync’s mobile clients now have voice and video over wireless as well as IM all in one place.  You can start, add and switch been each of these communication methods easily from within your application...

By Shelly Marston, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Lync In my role on the Lync Marketing team, I look after Lync Meetings — audio, video, and web conferencing — and the video workload. So I was particularly attentive in Tony Bates’...

The first update to the Lync VDI feature since Lync 2013 shipped is now available! If you use Lync 2013 in VDI mode (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) then you should apply the below patch. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2760556

By Jason Lewis, Program Manager, Lync Mobile Team We have been seeing some feedback asking “Why is Lync 2013 Mobile asking me to use Lync 2010?”  The short answer is your Lync Server does not support Lync 2013 Mobile apps, you will need to continue...

By Jason Lewis, Program Manager, Lync Mobile Team Last month at Lync Conference we showed our Lync 2013 mobile clients and shared that the apps for Windows Phone and iOS would be available in March. Today, I’m excited to share that the Windows Phone app...

by Phillip Garding, Senior Program Manager, Lync Team One of the things we announced at Lync Conference was our first update for the Lync Windows Store app. We spent the last few months talking to customers and reading your Store reviews. We heard...

By Blake Shepard, Senior Business Planner, Lync On February 19 th Tony Bates, President of Microsoft’s Skype Division, announced in the keynote address at the Lync Conference and also in a blog post that Lync-Skype Connectivity for presence,...

“If only someone would build Lync for a conference room” Lync is at the center of one of the biggest transformations in the way we work since the advent of the PC. The workforce is more distributed, with more flexible working hours and...

Join us at our Virtual Launch Event on February 27 th as we celebrate the availability of a major new release coming to Office 365 for businesses. If you are exploring cloud offerings, you do not want to miss this event. You’ll hear from Kurt DelBene...

The Lync Desktop 2013 February update is now available for download! Click on the below link to get it now! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2812461

Meeting recordings are a core component of Microsoft’s Unified Communications solution. They have a rich legacy in Microsoft’s conferencing products and service offerings and fulfill a key requirement for many companies and individuals. ...

The contact list is one of the most beloved features in Lync. In every release, the goal is to improve and optimize its user experience to meet user needs. In this post, I will cover the most notable enhancements made to the contact list in Lync 2013...

Now that you know the power of chat rooms. It is time to create one. Creating one will allow you to collaborate with the people who are important to you. You will be able to create a chat room if your Lync policy allows this. This policy is usually setup...

As you know, Lync Persistent Chat Rooms make it easy for you to collaborate with the people you care about around topic that are important to you. Here we will show you how to use chat rooms and customize its settings to maximize their benefit. With Chat...

What is Lync Persistent Chat? Have you ever wanted a single place where you can easily communicate and collaborate with the people you Work with? Do you find yourself spending time searching through email for a response to a question you had a while...

April 2013 Update: Service shut down date confirmed as June 30, 2014. As of September 1 st , 2012, the Microsoft Lync Public IM Connectivity User Subscription License (“PIC USL”) is no longer available for purchase for new or renewing agreements...

Call handling options are displayed differently in Lync 2013 than in Lync 2010. With the new “hover" experience, you can find your call controls by hovering over different icons to display a menu. Let's take a look at the Lync 2013 call handling...

Beginning this month, Microsoft will start helping Windows Live Messenger (WLM) users move to Skype, en route to eventually retiring WLM. Lync customers who are using federation with WLM will be mostly uninterrupted by this change but should be aware...

In Lync 2013, as with the rest of the content, you can find program, monitor and desktop sharing options under the monitor icon. Here you can initiate a new session or quickly switch to recently presented content, listed conveniently in the same menu...

Thanks to everyone who has downloaded our new Windows Store Lync app! Lots of people are loving it, but we’ve seen feedback that some people are having trouble getting signed in. If you are having problems signing-in, please take a look at the information...