Update 3/2/2016 – Added new information on countries where PSTN conferencing license purchase is now available. On December 1, 2015 Microsoft officially added PSTN conferencing as a native feature for Skype forRead More…
Beginning December 1, 2015, Microsoft will be officially rolling out a number of new features within Office365 that significantly enhance the Skype for Business workloads. These features have been in preview form forRead More…
With Forefront TMG discontinued and Forefront UAG not supported for all Lync scenarios (hint, hint: mobility), customers will be increasingly looking at deploying ARR to serve as their reverse proxy solution forRead More…
This is one of those “long overdue” posts that inevitably comes back to rear its ugly head from time to time. If you are deploying Lync Server, Skype for Business Server, orRead More…
Configuring Lync Server 2010/2013 for integration with Exchange Online for UM is a relatively straight forward process. You need a Lync Edge server, federation enabled, proper external DNS SRV records, the appropriateRead More…
Video has, and continues to be, a huge push in the Unified Communications market. The difficulty in this video-centric reality is that very seldom do video solutions provide a one-size-fits all approach. Read More…
In the November 2011 Cumulative Update of Lync 2010, Microsoft added the ability to disable file transfers via the edge server. This feature enhancement undoubtedly was the result of customers voicing concernsRead More…
For a long time Microsoft has offered the capability of on-premises Live Communications Server, Office Communications Server and Lync Server deployments to federate with AOL for instant messaging. In order to useRead More…
Consider the following scenario: Lync is installed and the initial topology is published with only mirroring configured (no witness) At a later date (this could be weeks, days, or hours – itRead More…
When you install Lync 2013 and configure the back end for mirroring, a lot of things happen “under the hood” to configure the mirror (and witness, if applicable). Microsoft really has doneRead More…