It has been a while since we last posted something new to our blog, but we are back. I wanted to start a new tread regarding new or changed features and behavior in Lync 2010 as opposed to Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Based on our customers...

Disclaimer: you cannot migrate from LCS 2005 to Lync 2010 directly. To do this, you must first migrate from LCS to OCS 2007 (R1 or R2) and then from OCS 2007 (R1 or R2) to Lync. I had a problem the other day about a migration from LCS 2005. The...

A short, how-to, about RCC and LYNC. RCC remains mostly the same in LYNC as it was in OCS 2007 and OCS 2007R2, the setup and configuration phase have changed a little, actually the only way to set-up RCC in LYNC is with PowerShell. The set-up however...

Today I want to talk to you about an Exchange UM Feature that crosses the boundaries between Outlook, Exchange and Office Communications Server/Lync. Play on Phone What is it and what does it do? W ell it gives the end user the possibility...

Let's assume the following scenario: you have installed a Lync server and done the integration with Exchange UM. The Lync users have E.164 numbers in the format +403999XXXX, where XXXX is the user's extension. Exchange, however, only uses the extension...

Let's imagine the following scenario: You have an Exchange 2007 UM deployment with a couple of dialplans and just added a 2010 UM server in the domain. You create a new dialplan on the new server and migrate a test user both to the new server and the...

If you find yourself in the situation where you have Microsoft Outlook 2010 64bit Edition Installed together with Communicator 2007 R2 you will find that without the proper Exchange Configuration you will not have access to your Outlook Contacts and your...

I thought I'd start with a bit of information about a problem I've seen during the OCS Group Chat installation. There aren't many problems that I've found, but the ones may appear can give someone a headache, so here goes: When installing the Group...