The first quarterly Lync Users Group meeting of 2014 has been scheduled and announced for this month. The group has grown to 13 different events across the country stretching from New York to the Pacific Northwest.with the addition of events in Seattle, Portland, and Boise this quarter.
As usual I will be hosting the Chicago event. For details on all other events visit the Lync Users Group homepage.
| Date | Location | Address |
| January 30th 6:00 PM |
Chicago UC Users Group | Microsoft Technology Center 200 East Randolph Drive, Suite 200 Chicago, IL 60601 |
Presentations will be provided on the following two topics:
Centralized Logging Service
- The first session will be presented by a Lync subject matter expert and will cover the ins and outs of the Centralized Logging Service (CLS) which was introduced in Lync Server 2013.
Lync Room System
- The second session provided by Smart Technologies will dive into the Lync Room Edition solution.
Industry Experts will be on site to deliver these presentations and help answer any questions related to Lync Server.
Food, beverages and additional door prizes will be provided courtesy of the Lync Users Group. The food will be ready at 5:30 so come early if you can to spend time socializing with the group before the presentations begin at 6:00.
One lucky attendee from any of the various Lync User Group events this month will win a trip to Lync Conference 2014 in Las Vegas, courtesy of the Lync Users Group.
*Lync Conference trip entry requires attending an in person event on or prior to January 31st, 2014 and completing a survey. Drawing will be conducted February 1st, 2014 and winner will be contacted immediately. Lync user’s group volunteers, sponsors, employees of sponsors and their immediate families are not eligible to win.
There's a user group here in Ottawa, Canada as well too. First meeting this month
Jeff – Will this be recorded and made available online?
We haven't recorded any of the past meeting, so most likely not. As a group we've talked about doing this in the future but for now the in-person experience is what we are focusing on for each group.
Are there any UC/Lync Groups or meetings planned for Southern CA ? As a former Avaya/Nortel User Group member, I gained a lot by participating and would love to join a local Lync User Group since we're replacing our legacy Nortel systems with Lync.
None that I'm aware of or that are part of the nationwide Lync Users Group. Feel free to start one up and join in the fun 🙂
Barbara,
I am in for the SoCal group.
Considering it is a Lync user group – wouldn't it be great to do it online via a Lync session ? 🙂 Mostly so other countries can join in and exchange information. 🙂
Yes, I agree 🙂 But as these groups are focused on more than just content delivery and are meant to build up an actual community in each area, recording the sessions has not been on the top of our list. We are discussing this topic though but there are other virtual users groups out there which would be better suited for large geographical area coverage like you suggest. I think you'll find an overwhelming amount of content will be coming out of the Lync Conference this year, when that material is later posted online (if Microsoft repeats what they did last year).