Adding Custom Presence to Lync
Jeff SchertzOffice Communicator has supported the customization of up to 4 additional presence states for some times, and there are many articles all over the Internet on this topic. But I…
Lync 2010 RTM Announced
Late last night Microsoft released the statement that many IT professional, directors, and CIOs have been waiting nearly a year to hear: the slated public release of Lync Server 2010. …
Exchange 2010 SP1 UM Unsupported with OCS 2007
Now before anyone has a heart-attack due to the title pay special attention to the fact that ‘R2’ is strategically left out. The full UM integration is still fine for…
Lync 2010 Client Connections are TLS Only
The Advanced Connection Settings under the Lync 2010 RC client’s Personal Options still shows the old Connect Using TCP/TLS radio buttons, but those options are greyed-out even if Manual Configuration…
Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 3
This blog post is part 3 of a multi-article series and is a continuation of this previous article: Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 2 Update: This process is identical…
Lync 2010 Address Book Normalization
As discussed in a past article the Address Book Normalization process of OCS is a barely-documented and often misunderstood process. The objective of this blog article is to explain how…
Updating the Lync 2010 Address Book
The overall process is basically the same as what Office Communications Server does, but with added flexibility of easily customizing some of the timing of the different events. The entire…
Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 2
This blog post is part 2 of a multi-article series and is a continuation of this previous article: Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 1 Where Part 1 left off…
Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 1
Now that the general public has access to the Release Candidate software for Lync Server 2010 it is now appropriate to cover the deployment process in depth. The purpose of…
Lync 2010 Client Unsupported with OCS
With this yesterday's release of the Lync 2010 Release Candidate software to the general public I’m already seeing people attempting to use the Lync client to sign-in to an existing…