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Testing Lync A/V scenarios in a Virtual Machine with a Virtual/Emulated Webcam and Soundcard
VM’s are great for building labs and testing different scenarios. On of the challenges with Lync/UC is you need Audio and Video to do any serious testing.
You have a couple of options here
Use some old Physical hosts
Use VMware Workstation ...
Affordable Quiet 32GB RAM Home Lab/Whitebox Hyper-V server – Build List
Inspired/led astray by Jeff Guillet who I got to meet at the recent MVP Summit. I’ve recently bought a new 32GB RAM home lab server for home for £610/$970. Jeff has a great post on his build here, which provided a nice starting point for ...
Lync Server 2010 Client Policy “Allow/Block and upgrade” and “Allow/Block with URL”, what do these do?
Lync has a Client Version Policy that allows you to allow or reject registrations from certain client versions
Against each User Agent and Version you have the following options:
So what impact do these options have on end users? thanks to ...
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Hotfix KB968802 April 2012 Update
For the OCS 2007 R2 users out there, an April 2012 update is available. Download here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=19178
Version: 6907.250 Date published: 4/13/2012
This update resolves the issues that are documented ...
Video Demo of Busylight UC for Microsoft Lync
Busylight UC is a USB call alert/Presence display device for Lync. It has a bight LED to indicate your presence state/an incoming call and an built in Speaker to play ringtones directly from the device.
The idea:
Never miss a Lync call
Mute ...
Demo of Xstran client side Lync Contact Migrator
I’ve been meaning to get this one up for a while. Xstran have developed a client side contact importer/exporter for Lync. It relies on the Lync client rather than any server side access, so works fine with Office 365 as well as on-prem. There ...
Deploying a Kemp Virtual Load Balancer in Hyper-V and VMware
On of the requirements for an Enterprise Lync deployment (with multiple Front End Servers that work in a pool so you can withstand a server outage) is a “Hardware” Load Balancer. The in the recommended Lync 2010 deployment model, the hardware ...
