June, 2011

Two new chapters have been posted to the Kit. One on Direct SIP and the other on Exchange Unified Messaging integration. Direct Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) provides SIP trunking between an IP-PBX and Lync Server.

Direct SIP supports the following use cases:

• Use Simultaneous Ring feature on IP-PBX or Lync Server to ring both IP-PBX handset and Lync 2010
• Call from IP-PBX handset to Lync 2010
• Call from Lync 2010 to IP-PBX handset
• Call from IP-PBX handset to dial-in conferencing on Lync Server
• Call from IP-PBX handset to Lync Server Response Group
• PSTN access for Lync Server through IP-PBX

Download the chapters here.

8 Lync Tools you can use for free, my favorite tool is the Conversation Translator which is a great usage case scenario for English as a Second language in schools or other business that need to communicate to various languages and countries.

Check out the 8 tools which are: 

IM an Expert

Conversations Analyzer

Conversation Translator

Information Dashboard

Tabbed Conversations

Group Chat Stress

Lync Custom Intranet Site

Lync How-to

Download all 8 of these great tools here:

http://lync.microsoft.com/Adoption-and-Training-Kit/tools-and-apps/Pages/Overview.aspx

Some excellent Office 365 video jump start training delivered by the products teams covering Lync Online, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Office 365:

• Office 365 Jump Start (01): Microsoft Office 365 Overview for IT Pros
• Office 365 Jump Start (02): Deploying Clients for Office 365
• Office 365 Jump Start (03): Microsoft Office 365 Administration & Automation Using Windows PowerShell™
• Office 365 Jump Start (04): Microsoft Office 365 Identity and Access Solutions
• Office 365 Jump Start (05): Microsoft Office 365 Directory Synchronization
• Office 365 Jump Start (06): Exchange Online Overview for IT Pros
• Office 365 Jump Start (07): Microsoft Exchange Online Administration
• Office 365 Jump Start (08): Microsoft Staged Exchange Online Migration
• Office 365 Jump Start (09): Hybrid Options with Exchange Server & Exchange Online
• Office 365 Jump Start (10): Exchange Online Archiving & Compliance
• Office 365 Jump Start (11): Lync Online Overview & Configuration for IT Pros
• Office 365 Jump Start (12): SharePoint Online Overview
• Office 365 Jump Start (13): SharePoint Online Administration
• Office 365 Jump Start (14): SharePoint Online Extensibility & Customization
• Office 365 Jump Start (15): Office 365 Deployment Overview

I will post more after the Office 365 launch.