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  This release of Lync is not just a minor upgrade from OCS 2007 R2. It has some awesome new features and functionality coming.  I figured I should try and provide a bulleted list of the top features you need to be aware of. (screenshots are courtesy of Lync product team and some of my own...

We finally announced the name for our next generation of Office Communications Server today! It is Microsoft Lync Server 2010. There are all sorts of reasons to rename it but mostly was due to the fact that Lync defines how the product connects/links you with people internally/externally from anywhere...

“Frontend” (FE) Spec •CPU 8 cores (Dual Quad-Core) 2.00 GHz+ •12 gigabytes (GB) RAM •Attached storage (hard disk drive 10,000 rpm+, 72GB+) •Applicable to other roles (Edge, Monitoring/Archiving) •2 network interface cards (NICs) 1 GB per second (GBps)+ “Backend” (BE) Spec •Central processing unit (CPU...

With all the openness (watch the video showing the new CS14 clients and new Silverlight conferencing client) the product team is revealing at TechEd 2010 this week around CS14, I figured I could now blog about a common question I get from customers.   This was a question from a university in the...

If you are looking to get a deeper dive on Microsoft’s UC stack, Tom Cross has put together a unique Microsoft Communications Server Expo/Conference this Summer in Boulder, Co. Read more below:   "MCS-Microsoft Communications Server Moving into Mainstream" Conference & Expo – June...

Lots of useful information announced from the Communications Server product team at VoiceCon in Orlando has been released: Name change Microsoft Office Communications Server has been renamed to Microsoft Communications Server. Final naming is still being determined so for now it is code named Communications...