September, 2010

Below are the shortcut keys that can be used irrespective of which window has focus. Table 1: Global Hotkeys Shortcut key Description Windows Key + Q Brings Lync main window to foreground Windows Key + A Accept an incoming toast invitation Windows Key + X Declines toast invitation and change your status to ‘Do not disturb’ Windows Key + Esc ...

Ever been stuck in traffic in your car, late for a meeting you need to attend, and fumbling around trying to find the right numbers to dial to call in? Well, you don’t need a fancy new Win7 phone to be able to quickly join into your meetings hosted on Lync Server. You can do it on any phone that has basic speed-dial functionality – better yet, you’ll join the meeting in a way that people will see who you are in the roster (and without having to record your name...

Microsoft now offers a free instructor-led session entitled : ‘6 steps to a successful UC Rollout: Best Practices for readiness planning and driving adoption of UC Solutions’. This class is a great first stop for IT Pros and rollout teams implementing Unified Communications solutions within their organization. The session will offer recommendations to promote a successful UC launch and reinforce ongoing user adoption. Presented in a virtual classroom via Office Live...

Office Communicator 2007 R2 had brought sharing monitors and desktop to their everyday phone calls and instant messages. With Microsoft Lync we are taking this one step further by enabling you to share applications as well. Read on to learn more about all that’s new in sharing with this release. Fig 1: Share Menu in Conversation Window Sharing exactly what you want The entire list of programs running on your machine will be available to you for sharing. The list of...

This blog will explain how the Message Waiting indicator (MWI) works and how end-user can access their enterprise voice mails from CoMo for Nokia and prerequisites for these features to work properly. CoMo for Nokia client can receive notification of unread voice mail count or in other words offers MWI feature, the unread voice mail count is shown in the homescreen like shown in picture below: On clicking on the homescreen it launches the conversation list window (shown...

With the release of Communicator “14”, you no longer have to have a separate client to create and run meetings that include presenting PowerPoint slides, polling the audience and collaborate on a whiteboard. The coming posts will tell you more about desktop/application sharing and PowerPoint presentations. Here is a sneak peek at the UI! Meeting Lobby This release introduces a Meeting Lobby for all your meetings. As you could see in the previous post you can...