So, who’s excited for the second annual Lync Conference next week, February 18-20, in Las Vegas? Our team certainly is, as noted in the recent press release and previous blog post. Perficient is one of only two Lync Partners in the US with multiple Microsoft Certified Masters (MCMs) on staff, and is also one of […]
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Perficient announces Lync Conference evening event sponsorship
Today, Perficient announced that we will be the evening event sponsor at the second annual Lync Conference in Las Vegas from February 18-20. The Perficient team, including several Lync Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM), will be showcasing our expertise in booth 223. The team will also be giving away a $1000 gift certificate to the Microsoft Store. […]
The CIO’s Guide to a Lync Server 2013 Global Design
More and more organizations are deploying Lync 2013, as it provides a single solution that unites voice, IM, audio, video, and web-conferencing into a richer, more simplified experience. It allows employees to work from just about anywhere to communicate securely and stay connected with colleagues and customers. When an organization decides to take advantage of […]
Lync 2013 SQL Mirroring Witness Gotcha
My colleague, Jason Sloan, has a great blog post on some SQL mirroring issues he encountered during a recent Lync 2013 deployment that I highly recommend everyone read. This post is intended as an addition to that list with an issue that I discovered during my own Lync 2013 SQL mirroring deployment. Consider the following […]
Uncovering the Cost of AOL Federation
For a long time Microsoft has offered the capability of on-premises Live Communications Server, Office Communications Server and Lync Server deployments to federate with AOL for instant messaging. In order to use AOL federation there were certain basic requirements that had to be met: You must have a functional edge server (including DNS records & […]
Disabling Edge Server File Transfers in Lync
In the November 2011 Cumulative Update of Lync 2010, Microsoft added the ability to disable file transfers via the edge server. This feature enhancement undoubtedly was the result of customers voicing concerns about data loss protection and was a welcomed addition to the IT administrator’s arsenal. In short, the feature allowed administrators to block all […]
Webinar Replay: Powering Your Contact Center with Microsoft Lync
Last week, Perficient and Clarity teamed up for the webinar, “Maximizing Your Lync Investment in the Contact Center.” Matt McGillen, Director of Infrastructure at Perficient, and Craig Reishus, Director of Business Development at Clarity, showed attendees how they can extend Lync to other business units, easily adding functionality to an existing Lync environment. First, Matt […]
Lync Support for CryptoAPI:NG Certificates
Simply put, Lync does not support certificates that are issued using the Cryptography API: Next Generation providers. At the time of this writing, Lync 2010 and Lync 2013 only support certificates that are issued using legacy Cryptography API providers. To determine if your certificate was issued with CryptoAPI:NG support, use these quick instructions: Using certutil.exe, […]
Webinar: Maximizing Your Lync Investment in the Contact Center
If you’re considering or have already chosen Lync as your enterprise voice platform, it’s probably safe to say that you want to make the most of your investment. During next week’s webinar, Using Lync to Power Your Contact Center, on Thursday, December 5 at 1 p.m. CST, Perficient and Clarity will team up to discuss […]
Webinar Replay: Integrating Microsoft Lync with Cisco
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 […]
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 […]