On Wednesday, we held a webinar on a popular topic: how to successfully integrate Microsoft Lync with Cisco. During the webinar, Matt McGillen, Director of Infrastructure at Perficient, shared his recommendations and best practices on integrating the two technologies. Many organizations today are struggling to figure out how to make Lync work with their existing […]
Posts Tagged ‘Lync’
Office 365; Beyond email, Innovating for the Future (infographic)
This interesting Office 365 infograpic was recently shared with me. It contains some pretty impressive numbers 1 billion people on the planet are using Microsoft Word 2 out of 3 information workers are using SharePoint 90 out of 100 Fortune 100 companies are using Lync One in four of Microsoft’s Enterprise customers – Microsoft’s largest […]
Installing the Lync 2013 Room System Web Portal
Over the weekend Microsoft released a new Lync Room System Administrative Web Portal add-on to Lync Server 2013. Not much information is publicly available on this yet, but it is a quick install to get it up and running. Let’s walk through the installation process and have a look at what exactly gets changed “under […]
Unexpected DNS SRV Error with Lync Server and Exchange Online UM
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 appropriate Hosted Voicemail Policy configuration applied to the on-premise Lync environment, and the Exchange Online UM dial plan configured appropriately. Despite having all that […]
Do Lync Conference Policies Apply to Distribution Groups?
Generally speaking, Conference Policies within Lync Server exist to control functionalities and features when Lync modalities – such as IM, Audio, Video, App Sharing, etc – involve more than two participants. There are some Conference Policy settings that do control peer-to-peer functionalities, but we’ll save that discussion for another day. Any time a Lync modality reaches three […]
Attention Nonprofits: Microsoft is donating Office 365 to you
If you qualify Microsoft will donate Office 365 to your organization. Don’t you think you could benefit from Exchange and SharePoint as well as Office applications? Wouldn’t it be great if you could simplify IT administration and work towards your goals as a nonprofit? Well I believe that is what Microsoft is trying to do […]
ZDNet Highlights Perficient’s Cloud and Healthcare Expertise
It was exciting to read Heather Clancy‘s post on ZDNet.com this morning, ‘Perficient’s Cloud Prescription for Healthcare Companies‘ highlighting Perficient’s Cloud & Healthcare expertise. From Heather’s post, which can be read here [Perficient] was named in July as both the software developer’s U.S. Partner of the Year and also as [Microsoft’s] top provider for delivering healthcare […]
Tennis, Lync, SharePoint; Lessons in Teamwork & Winning Combos
I recently started playing tennis again after a long absence from the game. My son is just learning how to play and I want to be able to play with him as he gets older. While I played tennis in (high) school in Ireland, I was never a particularly strong individual player – I had […]
Lync – A Tale of Stretching the Limits of Supportability
This blog post will highlight the infrastructure abilities of Lync when thinking a bit outside of the box on how to design Lync to meet very specific needs. It’s not that I am condoning deploying Lync outside of supportability, but rather just showing that Lync truly can be flexible. I recently finished up a global deployment […]
Mobile upgrade time, what to do? Windows Phone, it might be time.
I’m taking a break from Lync blogging to address this…situation I’m in. So, as the title states, my contract is up and its time to run through the mobile debate once again. If there is stress in my life right now, it isn’t the consulting work or raising 2 boys who are destined to destroy my […]
Lync Server – Install-CSDatabase error
With Lync Server 2013, the recommendation is to keep the OS on the C: drive and deploy Lync to a secondary drive running Raid 10. When you ask for server provisioning with the requested drive layout you’ll receive your server with a second drive such as a D: or E: drive, or whatever your standard build calls for. […]
Lync Server 2013 – Annoying LS DATA MCU 41029 Error
Starting with Lync Server 2010 and now with Lync Server 2013, Certificate management was much improved over previous OCS platforms with the ability to itemize certificates across the environment. More specifically, on the Lync Server Front ends you can now apply up to 3 unique certificates to each server. A description is provided for each certificate below: […]