Posts Tagged ‘Lync’

This is part four of a twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the fourth day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me:  Lync Enterprise Voice and Overhead Paging Best Practices. Before we deep dive into the technical details, you might be wondering how does overhead paging […]

This is part three of a twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the third day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me:  three SQL Servers

This is part 2 of a twelve post series. To see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the second day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: two paired pools! Introduction Lync 2010 was a breakout version for Microsoft’s UC platform. The major improvements in voice, video and conferencing shot Microsoft […]

This is part one of a twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the first day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: a media gateway for PSTN connectivity. In the song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” the first day is the building block for the other […]

The Surface Pro pricing details were released recently and with little fanfare.  The Pro model is essentially an expensive Ultrabook that is packaged as a tablet.  The advantages of the Pro model are backwards compatibility with all pre-existing Windows software and more powerful hardware.  Those advantages are going to cost about $500 and half of […]

I am sure you are familiar with the old holiday tune, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”  My favorite rendition as a child was by John Denver and the Muppets.  We had the record- yes, actual vinyl- and would play it over and over again while decorating the Christmas tree.  Growing up, I never really knew what was […]

I was working with a customer recently to troubleshoot problems with Microsoft Lync Application Sharing and I needed to verify the source network address translation (NAT) of the Lync Edge server external interface IP addresses.  The customer had a fairly typical Lync Edge server implementation: one internal DMZ zone network interface with one private IP address and […]

 This blog post is meant for both the PowerShell newbie and scripter out there looking for a reason why they should start learning aptly named PowerShell or push themselves to learn a new aspect of PowerShell they’ve been meaning to try. It’s been a few years now since PowerShell first came to be. Remember those […]

I just finished a support call dealing with this situation, so I thought it was worthy of a quick post.  As my colleague, Jason Sloan, pointed out in his post “Lync Server 2010 to Lync Server 2013 Migration QoS Gotcha,” the Lync executable filename has changed from communicator.exe in Lync 2010 to lync.exe in Lync 2013.  Jason brought […]

 Recently (prior to SharePoint 2013 going RTM), Perficient Microsoft hosted their semi-annual Hackathon focusing on the new SharePoint 2013 App Model. We had 6 teams compete (one team was entirely remote with not a single person in the same room, ah the power of Lync!), and I was so amazed by the wide variety of […]

When it comes to a Unified Communications (UC) solution, one of the things you may hear in your research is that UC will “bring your network to its knees” or that UC will necessitate an investment in large amounts of wide area network (WAN) bandwidth.  While certain UC modalities (video or application sharing) will take more […]

Overview I’ll start off by mentioning that I’ve been using the Surface as my only computer now for the last 4 weeks. No laptop, no desktop. It’s my work computer, my home computer, my tablet and of course my mobile computing platform. In fact, I’ve composed most of this blog post with the Surface on a […]