July 2014 Lync Users Group
Jeff SchertzThe next round of quarterly Lync Users Group meetings has begun to be scheduled and announced for next month. For a full schedule of regional events the Lync Users Group…
Resetting Polycom Phones
Resetting configuration data or rolling back the firmware on Lync IP phones is one of the most basic troubleshooting procedures, but at the core is also often misunderstood. This article…
Video Temporal Scaling Behavior in Lync 2013
This article is a continuation on a series of articles dedicated to the H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) video codec implementation utilized by Lync 2013. Previous article introduced the standards-based…
Planning for Video in Lync
Microsoft has recently posted all recorded sessions from the 2014 Lync Conference to the Channel 9 events page on MSDN. Among these are a pair of sessions I presented this…
The Future of Lync IP Phones
A topic originally meant for the recent Lync Conference summary article, it seemed more appropriate to break this out into a separate post. This subject comes up now in almost…
Home Office Standing Desk
After spending a Sunday morning upgrading my PC and rewiring my home office I recently tweeted a photo of the end result and quickly had a number of questions about…
April 2014 Lync Users Group
The next round of quarterly Lync Users Group meetings has been scheduled and announced for this month. The Lync User Group family has now grown to 15 different locations across…
Media Codecs in Lync 2013
The original intent of this article was to review the current list of supported audio and video codecs in Lync 2013 and attempt to explain what each one is used…
Lync Conference 2014 Summary
After getting a few weeks to decompress from Lync Conference 2014 in Las Vegas here is some feedback on numerous topics which followers of this blog may find interesting. Some…
Lync Room System Account Setup
The official Microsoft Lync Room System Deployment Guide covers in detail the creation of a resource mailbox which will be dedicated to each Lync Room system, yet it also includes…