Posts Tagged ‘Lync’

External federation within Lync is one of the most powerful B2X communication mechanisms available on the market – the ability to contact other users, across platforms, across providers, completely through the power and openness of the Internet.  With Lync 2010 and with the RTM release of Lync 2013, the SIP Federated Providers list was pre-populated […]

The Perficient team was represented in force at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston last week, where we were honored as Microsoft’s US Partner of the Year award winner.  In addition Perficient was thrilled to win three additional awards, validating our  Cloud expertise and commitment.  From the news release which can be read here […]

Last week, we hosted a webinar on Microsoft Lync, where my colleague Matt McGillen discussed how to integrate Lync with Cisco, or replace it. During the session, Matt, Director of Infrastructure at Perficient, shared best practices and recommendations learned through his firsthand experience integrating with Microsoft UC and Cisco. With many organizations struggling to figure […]

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 for Lync.  The good news is that ARR is fully capable and supported for the reverse proxy role; the bad news is that ARR is still […]

Since the days of OCS, there has been a need for an address normalization process so that phone numbers within Active Directory or Outlook contact lists could be normalized into the recommended E.164 format for usage within Office Communicator and Lync.  For most organizations the default rules in Lync are able to handle numbers in […]

Troubleshooting and reading the logs on the Lync Mobile client is in my opinion, very cumbersome.   I find myself staring at the logs trying to decipher the cryptic messages, reformatting the text in notepad, scrolling to left and right repeatedly,…  well, you get the idea, it simply isn’t any fun.    I was recently challenged with […]

If your organization is struggling to make Lync work with your existing investments in legacy Cisco IP telephony, join us for a webinar on Thursday, June 13. The presentation will cover the best ways to leverage Lync in addition to an existing Cisco infrastructure. During the session, Matt McGillen, Director of Infrastructure at Perficient, will […]

For quite some time now, I’ve been working on a global design/deployment where there are multiple pools located throughout the globe.  Throughout this design, I’ve seen the flexibility of Lync Server 2013 at its very finest and gained a much better appreciation for how Lync Server was designed by the Product Team at Microsoft.  Due […]

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 […]

I recently came across an issue when one of my peers in the enterprise voice group helped integrate their existing on-premise Lync 2010 environment with hosted voicemail in the cloud. We followed the recommended steps outlined in these series of TechNet articles and other publications and everything seemed to work fine with a few test […]

Greetings from San Diego and my inaugural post from my new Surface Pro! Lync Conference got off to a great start on Monday evening with the welcome reception and mingling at the exhibit hall.  It was a great time for all of us Lync’ers to meet and greet, exchange information and see some great solutions focused around […]

Today, Perficient announced that we will be the evening event sponsor at the inaugeral Lync Conference in San Diego, CA from February 19-21. The Perficient team, including Lync Microsoft Certified Master (MCM), Keenan Crockett, will be showcasing our expertise in kiosk K-4. The team will also be giving away a Microsoft Surface Pro Device. The winner does […]