So now with all services started we are ready in this final part to create and enable our first Lync users but let me show you first the Lync Control Panel. 1. From the start menu open the ‘Lync Server Control Panel’ 2. You will be prompted for the admin...

Do you want to build your own Lync lab and you need guideline, I’ll post a series of four parts for a walkthrough for my lab setup and configuration over the next period… So let’s start by part 1: The Lab environment: Windows 2008 R2 as the OS for Lync...

In part 1 of this series we went through the deployment prerequisites, prepared the servers and prepared the environment for the deployment. In this part we will go through the planning tool, topology building and the server deployment. 1. First we need...

In this post I’ll list to you 30 fact and info about Lync which is totally new and different than OCS: You can virtualize all topologies and we support all workloads, including Enterprise Voice to be virtualized When you virtualize, Scalability is roughly...

In this part we need to deploy a local configuration store with the published configuration in the central management store on our Lync server, we will do that by using the deployment wizard again and selecting the ‘Install or update Lync Server System...