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A lot of my customers have been asking when this was coming since they wanted to begin planning for their virtualized and physical Lync server deployments. This tool has quite a few improvements over the RC planning tool. I pointed out some them below. This tool has a new virtualization option in the...

“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...

I get asked this quite a bit by my education customers. How can I get a good estimate for sizing my Mailbox Server, Hub Transport, Client Access Server and Storage?    The latest and greatest Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator v3.2 has some nice new sizing capabilities such as the...

  64-bit only As you know, R2 is moving to a 64-bit only platform to achieve greater scalability. 32-bit versions of OCS 2007 R2 will no longer be supported in production. This lines up with Exchange and other products moving this direction.   What OS can I run R2 on? All roles of Office Communications...