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PowerView Offers Powerful Microsoft Lync Reporting
Unify2 PowerView is a reporting and billing solution for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2. It comes with pre-canned reports including a report to track ROI so you see exactly how Lync's unified communications feature-set is...
Vlync Pilot - Hosted Microsoft Lync Launches
VCOMM, a subsidiary of internet telephony provider Coms Plc, a UK-based company, has launched Vlync Pilot, a hosted version of Microsoft’s Lync. Vlync Pilot is a fully managed and hosted Microsoft Lync service that comes bundled with 5 user licences...
Microsoft Releases July Cumulative update package for Lync 2010
Microsoft released a cumulative update package for Lync 2010 with several bug fixes. Thought I'd share the list of fixes. They include: 2571523 A Lync Server 2010 Standard CAL user cannot use certain functionality of a HID device in Lync...
Polycom Launches CX7000, Microsoft Lync Telepresence Solution
Polycom today announced the Polycom CX7000 Unified Collaboration System, what they claim is the "first room video telepresence solution custom-built for full integration with Microsoft Lync." It's an interesting solution that combines a wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, omni-directional full-duplex speakerphone,...
Microsoft Office 365 Launches
Today, Microsoft officially launched Office 365, the "cloud-based" version of Office, featuring the entire Office productivity suite and collaboration capabilities. Office 365 offers a range of service plans with monthly prices ranging from $2 to $27 per user per month.Office...
Kaspersky Kills Microsoft Lync - No Audio or Video
If you use Kaspersky with Microsoft Lync (or OCS 2007), you may be interested to know that Kaspersky can kill Lync's connectivity. Specifically, Kapersky Internet Security's network traffic monitor, called Web Protection in some versions blocks the network traffic. It...
Cumulative updates for Microsoft Lync 2010 released
Some important updates for Microsoft Lync client were just released as part of KB 2540951.According to Microsoft, this cumulative update fixes the following issues: 2543532 Credential prompts occur when you sign in to Lync 2010 by using the Lync Online...
Microsoft Lync Backup Script
The popular Microsoft Lync unified communications solution unifies your voice, video, IM, and collaboration onto a single platform. Unified communications is a wonderful thing, but putting all your eggs in one basket means you better be damned sure you back...
Microsoft OCS QoE Voice Analyzer App for WP7
Are you a Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 or Microsoft Lync user looking to analyze the Quality of Experience (QoE) on your Window 7 (WP7) phone? Then I have just the utility for you! The QoE Voice Analyzer app is now...
XConnect Has Killer Growth in 2010
Back in January 2010 I mentioned how XConnect's peering federation announced at ITEXPO was now offering "High-Definition (HD) Voice Peering Federation". Their federation service for carrier peering let's you carry both HD voice and HD video by passing codecs across...
Microsoft LyncAddContacts Utility to the Rescue!
Yesterday, I wrote about a utility that lets you find the versions for all your OCS/Lync clients in the enterprise. Today, I'm going to show you how you can easily add contacts en masse to your Lync clients. This is...
Find Microsoft Lync Versions For All the Clients
Want to easily find the Lync versions for all your clients? Well, check out the utility aptly named Find Lync Versions 1.02. You can even see which IP addresses are running which version of OCS/Lync.Screenshot:It basically runs these SQL queries...
Microsoft Lync Virtualization How-to Guide
Microsoft just released a whitepaper that outlines best practice recommendations for running Lync Server 2010 in a virtualized environment.Here's a snippet from the Table of Contents showing the covered topics:1.2 Why Virtualize? 2 Virtualization in Lync Server 2010 2.1 Terminology ...
Cisco Responds to Polycom's Adoption of TIP and Interoperability
A Cisco representative saw my article about Polycom's announcement to support Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) and she thought I'd be interested in hearing Cisco's take. David Hsieh, vice president, emerging technologies, Cisco responded to this news announcement as follows: "We...
Polycom UC Intelligent Core Platform Supports TIP Standard - Interoperable with Cisco
June of last year I wrote about how Cisco had to adopt the open source TIP protocol before the EU would approve Cisco's acquisition of Tandberg: An interesting back story behind the Cisco acquisition of Tandberg is that Cisco had...
Hosted Microsoft OCS/Lync Provider Supports Direct SIP Trunking
Direct SIP trunking has existed since OCS 2007 R2, however, WorkSpace Communications claims to be the only hosted Microsoft OCS/Lync Provider to support direct SIP trunking in a "hosted" environment. Even the more recent version Microsoft Lync cannot do direct...
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) Adds Microsoft Lync Support
According to BlackBerry's BlackBerry Enterprise Server Add-on product website, support for Microsoft Lync is coming soon. In the footnotes it says "Support for Microsoft Lync Server will be available in an upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Server Service Pack." It will be...
ProtoSphere 3D Virtual World Combines Microsoft Lync, VoIP, Collaboration, & Social Media
ProtonMedia's ProtoSphere combines Microsoft Lync, VoIP, collaboration, & social media features to bring a 3D virtual world to life, enabling the enterprise to more easily interact and collaborate. One of their competitors is Avaya's (formerly Nortel's) Web Alive, which I...
Microsoft Lync Unified Communications "14" Training Kit
Microsoft Lync has launched, so now what? How can you as a developer get in on the action? Well, Microsoft just released a training kit that provides deep technical training on all aspects of the Lync Server 2010 and Exchange...
Dialogic Releases Survivable Branch Appliance for Microsoft Lync Server 2010
A simple software upgrade for Dialogic 4000 Media Gateway Series (launched in 2007 with OCS 2007 support) adds Branch Office Connectivity and Survivability for Microsoft's Lync Unified Communications platform. This is a key component to Microsoft's strategy of a...
New Solution Enables Microsoft Lync to Talk to Land Mobile Radio users (VHF, UHF, P25, etc.)
One of Microsoft’s partners, Twisted Pair Solutions, maker of WAVE software now supports Microsoft Lync. WAVE Lync Communicator extends Lync by adding push-to-talk connectivity between office-based workers and their mobile worker colleagues who use two-way radios and smartphones. WAVE Lync...
Microsoft Lync Mini-review
Rich Tehrani and I were in NYC recently checking out Microsoft's latest UC offering, Microsoft Lync, which officially launches this week. I've been busy testing it out using some virtualized images Microsoft gave me, so haven't had time to write-up...
Avaya IP Office v6.1 Launches
Avaya, Inc. today released Avaya IP Office Release 6.1. Avaya IP Office is the company’s flagship communications solution for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The new version delivers a host of business collaboration and customer service enhancements that can improve...
Texas Instruments TNETV1072 processor Supercharges voice experience Optimized for Microsoft Lync
Texas Instruments claims that their TNETV1072's C64x+ digital signal processor (DSP) core provides "exceptional high-definition voice and wideband acoustic echo cancellation capabilities offering richer voice quality to its users." The chip is targeting and is specifically optimized for Microsoft Lync....
ITEXPO up 50% with 216 Exhibitors
Some great news about TMC's ITEXPO that I wanted to share. ITEXPO has experienced phenomenal growth year-over-year. Vendor participation for ITEXPO West increased almost 50 percent, and 216 exhibitors issued almost 400 news announcements from the show floor, detailing new...
