It is quite obvious the big market players are competing to own the “Unified Communications” space. I put quotes around Unified Communications because that definition seems to vary depending on who you talk to. Big name players such as Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya, Siemens, Polycom, the list goes on, have taken strides to create their own […]
Jason Sloan
I currently hold the Microsoft Certified Master on Lync Server 2010 certificatoin and work as a Senior Technical Consultant at Perficient, specializing in Unified Communications design and deployments. My history in IT dates back 15 years with all my experience coming primarily from Microsoft Technologies. I believe the Microsoft Unified Communiations community is a very close and talented group of engineers who genuinely enjoy the technologies and collaborating with one another to help the technologies dominate the marketplace.
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Lync Server and Shoretel Integration? – Absolutely
My intention of this post is to reach organizations whom currently leverage Shoretel and would like a high level understanding of integrating Lync Server 2010/2013 with their current Shoretel investment. In this series of Q&A, it is assumed Lync will sit behind the Shoretel system. In other words, the Shoretel PBX will be the gatekeeper […]
Lync Server 2013 Internal Server Roles
This is post 10 of the twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts, click here. On the 10th day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: 10 Lync Internal Server Roles! On the surface (No PUN intended), Lync 2013 is, or at least was upon release, widely perceived to not […]
Lync Server 2010 to Lync Server 2013 Migration QoS “Gotcha”
This quick blog snip -it is not intended to be a deep dive into Lync Server components but rather a quick reminder of a subtle change that could have a big impact on your migration. Since the inception of the Communications Server solution, at least starting with OCS, the client executable file was always branded […]
Configuring Simple URLs for Multiple Lync Pools
It’s becoming more and more common to see Lync deployments with a single SIP domain in organizations that have multiple geographically dispersed pools. However, deploying Lync within this scenario can cause quite the confusion due to the different URLs Lync uses in each pool. Typically, you can only have one set of URLs for an […]
Lync Server Schema Preparation in an Environment with 32-bit Schema Master
Deploying Lync Server 2010 is a process I simply enjoy doing. When the presales and design sessions are complete, I’m ready to start the deployment process as quickly as possible. It never fails, however, that something always makes the deployment wheels spin as we get started. This blog post is a simple post, but nonetheless […]