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 not really sure how it came to be, but a growing number of people are manually setting their presence to Busy and leaving it there all day long. They might continue to IM others, go to lunch, run errands, etc., all while in Busy....

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 to the hundreds of millions of people who use Skype. This combination enables Lync customers to take advantage of the global reach of Skype to connect and collaborate with suppliers, customers, and partners while relying...

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 your device. The most likely reason for that may be your system administrator has not updated the required certificates for enabling the federation between your on-premise Lync Server deployment and the Lync Push Notifications Clearing...

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 is supported while attending Lync meetings or ad-hoc audio or video conference calls with 3 or more people. You cannot present meeting content from Lync for iPad. You can view shared desktop or applications while attending meetings...

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 many people wondered if our vision of using software to deliver a truly unified communications platform was even feasible. It’s clear now that we’re considered a leader in unified communications, with a compelling...

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.  Switching between conversations on Lync mobile is also quick and easy. Starting and adding communication modes The easiest way to start an IM, voice or video conversation is from a contact card.  You can launch a...

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’ keynote at Lync Conference 2013 a month ago, especially to the commitment of delivering interoperability with third-party video teleconference (VTC) vendors in the next 12-18 months. As I met with customers, partners, and analysts...

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 using the Lync 2010 Mobile app.  The long answer is… Lync 2013 Mobile relies on Unified Communication Web API (UCWA) that comes with February 2013 Cumulative Update for Lync Server 2013 or later, which Lync Server 2010 does...

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 is available today and that the app for iPhone and iPad have been submitted and should be available this week are available now.  **Update (4/1)** The Android app is also now available.  Lync 2013 Mobile brings a number...