Lync Video Interop Design Clinics
Jeff SchertzOver the next month or so I will be hosting a number of 3-hour design clinics throughout various Microsoft Technology Centers across the Midwest which will focus on Video conferencing…
Understanding Lync Edge Server Ports
The Lync Edge Server is an often misunderstood server role that in theory is not all that complicated. But without knowing some of the basic functionality provided it can be…
Lync Web Services Load Balancing with KEMP VLM
This article addresses a standard DNS Load Balanced scenario utilizing a Hardware Load Balancer (HLB) for web server requests only. What is unique about this setup though is that the…
New Lync Phone Edition Features
This is a brief article indented to highlight some new functionality introduced into the Lync Phone Edition client for all Aries devices with the recent firmware release in March 2012. …
Viewing Lync User Telephony Modes in PowerShell
A question was recently asked in the TechNet Lync Server forums which seemed unique enough to warrant a quick blog article based on the fact that it did take a…
Understanding DHCP Option 43
Although not the first on this topic this article does contain a more comprehensive and detailed explanation of exactly how Option 43 is formatted and utilized, and is designed to…
Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 4
This long overdue follow-up article on the Lync Server deployment series focuses on bringing what is currently in place for internal users to allowing external access and providing a channel…
Extension Dialing with Polycom SIP Phones
In the previous article “Lync Integration with Polycom SIP Phones” the ability for native Lync registration was introduced for many of the standard SIP handsets with the firmware release version…
Troubleshooting Lync Phone Edition Issues
This article serves as a follow-up to a few previous articles which will further explain some of the requirements, capabilities, and limitations of the Lync Phone Edition firmware which appear…
Lync Mobile iOS Client Authentication Issues
Troubleshooting Lync client connectivity can be difficult when there are multiple clients which exhibit slightly different behavior and there are some scenarios where not all clients can successfully sign in.…