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  • Blog Post: Meet Youssef El-Itreby! Office 365 Guru

    FaridaSHERIF
    1- Youssef, can you please introduce yourself to our readers ? It is almost my third year as a Microsoft Technology Solutions Professional covering the W est, E ast and C entral A frica (WECA) region. I have started as a Unified Communications technical presales and had the chance to be one of the...
    on 7 Apr 2014

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Web Scheduler is now available !

    Amr.Hamdy
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=b7d8f948-fa64-4c51-8b54-2223954d1fa4
    on 20 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Adopt and Deploy Lync with Device Replacement program- Preserving Customer investments

    Amr.Hamdy
    Here is another program from Microsoft to help customers adopt and deploy Lync ; Device Replacement . We are partnering with Vology ( http://www.vds.com ) & Cxtec ( http://www.cxtec.com ) to buy/replace/trade-in customers old phones…so we are helping customers preserve their investment...
    on 18 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: Lync Server - Useful Links

    Amr.Hamdy
    The Lync Server Open Interoperability Program is now available http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg131938.aspx Other useful Links: - Hardware Requirements. Link - Bandwidth Table. Link - Lync New features – server side. Link - Lync New features – Client Side. Link...
    on 16 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: Impact of enabling Unified Messaging for Lync users

    Mahmoud Badran
    Lync Server Enterprise Voice uses the Exchange UM infrastructure to provide call answering, call notification, voice access (including voice mail), and auto-attendant services. all of the notifications and voicemails are stored on the main mailbox of the user; which can have an impact on the user...
    on 31 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Lync 2010 CU2 Server Update

    Amr.Hamdy
    Product KBs Download Product Update External External Lync 2010 (64bit) Lync_2010_CU 2 2496325 MS download Lync 2010 (32bit) Lync_2010_CU 2 2496325 MS download...
    on 20 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: List Connections and Users connected to Lync Registrar Pool

    Mahmoud Badran
    The following script could be copied to %windir%/system32 as connections.ps1 in order to run it from Lync powershell directly. It will list all the number of connectios to the registrar pool; i have added Listing all user aliases connected to Lync within the main Function. #################################################################################################...
    on 19 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Guides étape par étape de la série « Déploiement de Test UC15 » des Communications Unifiées

    Youssef El Itreby
    Introduction et aperçu du Déploiement de Test UC15 Ces guides étape par étape vont vous permettre d'acquérir une expérience pratique avec les nouveaux solutions et technologies des communications unifiées de Microsoft. Vous aurez la chance de passer...
    on 8 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Lync 2013 training slides and labs for developers

    Hosam Kamel
    Free Slide decks and lab materials designed to train developers on using the development models and APIs associated with Lync 2013, UCMA 4.0, UC Web API, Persistent Chat, and Outlook apps.     Each filename contains a substring "_M n _", where " n " identifies the number...
    on 9 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Meet Mostafa Yousry! November's Hyper-V Guru

    FaridaSHERIF
    1 -Mostafa, can you please introduce yourself to our readers? I have been working in the IT business for over 7 years now. I started as a Senior Technical Service Engineer. My responsibility was building Datacenters, such as Servers, Storage Systems, Backup solutions and Virtualization, for many vendors...
    on 3 Nov 2013

  • Blog Post: Lync Server 2010 supports SQL Server 2008 R2 !!

    Amr.Hamdy
    It has been announced TODAY that SQL Server 2008 R2 is now supported for Lync Server 2010. Finally !!
    on 20 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Lync 2010 : Bandwidth Calculator and Capacity Calculator tools

    Amr.Hamdy
    “ Lync 2010 - Bandwidth Calculator ” has just been published. In addition “ Lync Server 2010 - Capacity Calculator ” which has been published earlier . For those who haven’t noticed, here are 3 other documents that have been recently published on TechNet : 1. Lync...
    on 20 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: SIP vs H.323

    Mahmoud Badran
    http://www.tmcnet.com/it/0801/0801radv.htm Various standards organizations have considered signalling for voice and video over IP from different approaches. Two of the primary standards in use today are H.323 and SIP. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) established H.323 as the first...
    on 11 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Lync Custom States for TSPs ;)

    Mahmoud Badran
    Lync Custom availability states Install The registry to add the TSP states for Lync Regards
    on 22 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Lync with Polycom RMX Integration

    Mahmoud Badran
    This Blog describes the integration between Microsoft Lync and Polycom RMX 2000 Create the Polycom RMX pools Using the configuration in in the below figure, The application Pool video.sipdomain.com can be used as the Match URI for dialing. The two "Device" RMX SIP signaling (FQDN) domains are...
    on 26 May 2011

  • Blog Post: Lync Photo

    Mahmoud Badran
    Microsoft Lync 2010 introduces the use of user photos on the contact card and other places in the user interface. How It Works Lync 2010 can display the photo of the signed-in user from two different sources: 1 •The thumbnailPhoto attribute on the user's object in Active Directory Domain...
    on 17 May 2011

  • Blog Post: SIP Response Codes

    Mahmoud Badran
    1xx—Informational Responses 100 Trying 180 Ringing 181 Call Is Being Forwarded 182 Queued 183 Session Progress 2xx—Successful Responses 200 OK 202 accepted: It Indicates that the request has been understood but actually can't be processed 3xx—Redirection Responses 300 Multiple...
    on 11 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Outbound call routing time condition

    Mahmoud Badran
    In order to create an outbound route policy based on a time condition in order to prevent certain users from making PSTN calls after working hours you need to do them with powershell script and windows task scheduler so the example below shows that i created two voice policies one called "WorkTime...
    on 7 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: Lync Outbound gateway failover (NET)

    Mahmoud Badran
    Overview This is a two-part process; in the first part of the process, we use the UXs to point each of them at the same Lync Pool. In the second part, we do the complementary action on the Lync side by specifying both of the UXs as PSTN Gateways using the Lync 2010 Topology Builder and then do the...
    on 27 May 2012