Posts Tagged ‘Lync’

Here is the scenario – you have AD security groups specifically to DENY services to users that are added to this AD group. For example – a naughty user could be placed on probation in your organization,  and then added to this group –  in turn this membership would be automatically disabled in Lync.

Last week I spent some time with Perficient’s Microsoft Office 365 Practice Lead, David Greve from Chicago. He was a great source of information on the power of Office 365 and some of the incredible things Perficient has been able to do with it. I thought I would take a moment and share. Also, I […]

In my original XMPP post, I discussed how to troubleshoot TLS errors relating to Lync and the Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 XMPP gateway. If you believe you’re having TLS related issues, please refer to my previous post. This blog will focus on Lync troubleshooting techniques and Google XMPP responses when establishing federation between the two […]

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 […]

Congratulations to Microsoft for winning CRN‘s Annual Report Card (ARC) Trophy for Collaboration Software, the first time that this category has been included.  From CRN’s post by Rick Whiting “Almost every enterprise we work with has SharePoint someplace,” said Matt Morse, director of the SharePoint practice at Perficient, a St. Louis-based solution provider that’s a […]

As we all know, Microsoft’s “Wave 15” of Office products is now officially in public beta release.  While we’ve been paying a great deal of attention to SharePoint, my mind has lately been wandering back to a different side of this product family—Lync Server. We know that Lync 2013 is out there, and many of […]

It’s official.  On his personal TechNet blog, Microsoft Office Division President Kurt Delbene has confirmed today that Microsoft is acquiring Yammer. We can gather a couple things from this.  One, the announcement comes from Mr. Delbene, so this is now an Office Division play beyond all doubt.  SharePoint and Office 365 are the primary landing […]

Mark Fidelman recently posted an interesting article on Forbes.com titled “Microsoft’s View of the Future Workplace is Brilliant, Here’s Why” in the article Mark shares how he’s visited Microsoft Technology Centers  in the past couple of months and its left him “feeling both energized and alarmed. Energized because I am seeing a dramatic rise in […]

It was announced today that Perficient colleague Keenan Crockett has earned a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) certification on the Lync Server 2010 platform. Keenan joins an exclusive group of only 20 Lync MCM’s in the US and 40 Lync MCM’s world wide! Keenan is part of Perficient’s Microsoft National Business Unit’s unified communications practice. From […]

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 […]

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 […]

With the recent release of the Lync Mobile client for Windows Phone 7, Android, and iPhone, I’ve seen numerous companies thrilled about the opportunity to extend Lync further within the enterprise! For companies interested in deploying Lync Mobility, the Lync Server Cumulative Update 4 is required. For deployment steps, I highly recommend reading the Microsoft […]