Posts Tagged ‘unified communications’

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 […]

Manage Office 365 with Microsoft System Center Service Manager, Orchestrator, PowerShell or Custom GUI. Working with office 365 projects one of the things I come across frequently is what are some of the ways to manage Office 365 from an on premise location. Up to now there has been a very limited tool set to […]

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 […]

While directory sync provides a much needed service for Office 365 tenants one pain point that comes up pretty regularly is distribution group management once you’re in the cloud. Sure the groups get synced to the cloud but if you’ve been used to managing the group memberships with Outlook when everyone’s mailbox used to be […]

This is a reminder for some or heads up for new tenants about an issue you might have run across that occurs when you try to change a user’s userPrincipalName in your local AD when using dirsync. If you change the UPN (left side of @) and keep the user in the same domain, dirsync […]

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 […]

Are you planning to attend the Lync Conference in San Diego, CA from February 18th to 21st?  If so here’s your chance to win VIP access to SeaWorld during the Lync Conference evening event and an invitation to an exclusive post event party. Not only that, but you will have the opportunity to name the […]

My intention of this post is to reach organizations whom currently leverage Shoretel and would like a high level understanding of integrating Lync Server 2010/2013 with their current Shoretel investment.  In this series of Q&A, it is assumed Lync will sit behind the Shoretel system.  In other words, the Shoretel PBX will be the gatekeeper […]

I hear from a lot of people that they don’t want to use video. Even though Lync makes it a snap to use, people have all sorts of arguments as to why they don’t want to use it. But the real cause, I think, is that people have grown used to not putting much effort […]

In our Perficient Perspectives series, my colleague Matt McGillen recently spoke about the consumerization of IT and the enterprise impact of BYOD. Matt explored the critical role that communication now plays, especially with diverse working locations and devices and the rise of Social Business focused solutions. From the Perspective, which you can read here Matt […]