Background Recently on a customer deployment we had to setup and configure federation with Yahoo! Messenger. This required the purchase of Lync PIC (Public IM Connectivity) Licenses so that we could get Microsoft to provision our request with Yahoo!. Most of...
Recently I've been helping out the guys over at MUCUGUK (Microsoft Unified Communications User Group UK) with finding a venue for them to run a Lync event in Newcastle. The good news is that this is just one of a series of events they are running up and down the...
Today the first update arrived for the Windows Phone 7 Lync client. There is no change log from Microsoft at this point and it looks like there’s much new added. After digging about with WinMerge and taking a look at the binary files it looks like some minor...
I had a great time on Monday night heading down to NxtGenUG in Coventry to give my presentation “Lync – A Guide”. It was a small but very enthusiastic audience and the time just flew past (for me at any rate!). (download here - or view with notes) My...
This coming Monday (27th Feb) I’ll be down in Coventry presenting at NxtGenUG about Lync. My official fluff for the event: Lync - An introduction and how to get started Lync is the latest generation of Microsoft’s real-time communication server. For those who haven’t...
After talking at last weeks NEBytes about the new Lync mobility features I thought it would be useful to stick the slides up somewhere that people can see them. I know SlideShare is very popular at the moment but seeing as the slides were already up on my SkyDrive I...
Just over a week after the official Microsoft clients came out for WP7 and Android the iPhone client was released. It ‘s taken me a while to get my hands on an iPhone but here are some screenshots of the iPhone client & some shots of the unique iOS features. If...
The second Lync mobile client has landed, this time for Android – Grab it from the market place here. I’ve grabbed the app & loaded it up on a friends device to grab a few screenshots. If your curious you can have a look at my WP7 Lync overview (it has more screen...
If you want to have a play with the new Windows Phone client (WP7) for Lync then Microsoft haven’t quite setup the DNS records yet (or they are still propagating round the internet). Not to worry you can force it by manually specifying some URL’s… (If your using your...
