Lync - discussUC
The Lync Partner Ecosystem is Ready Tuesday, 14 September 2010 01:23
Written by Dean HowarthAuthors: Dean Howarth
LA Fitness Saves $500,000 Annually and Improves Customer Service with Communications Solution Monday, 04 October 2010 03:03
Written by Dean HowarthAuthors: Dean Howarth
This week I'd like to talk about LA Fitness and its Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (now called Lync Server 2010 with the latest release) solution. As LA Fitness has continued to open sports clubs all over the US and Canada, it ended up with many different communications solutions that didn't always work well...
Office 365: Lync meets the Cloud Tuesday, 19 October 2010 08:44
Written by Dean HowarthAuthors: Dean Howarth
Today, we announced Office 365, our next generation cloud productivity service. Office 365 brings Exchange, SharePoint and Lync Online together with Office desktop software as a cloud service. The technology will provide the latest, most complete, up-to-date service you can buy. It's everything you...
GREAT QUESTIONS about last week’s RTM Announcement! Tuesday, 02 November 2010 06:18
Written by Dean HowarthAuthors: Dean Howarth
Last Wednesday I posted that we'd released Lync to manufacturing, meaning our code is locked and the product is ready. We received some great questions as a result, so I wanted to address a few of them here.
First, there are still a few more steps before Lync is officially available. As I noted in the blog our worldwide...
Engineering, Construction, and Consulting Company Reinvents Communication with Microsoft UC—and Saves $650,000 Monday, 17 January 2011 15:17
Written by Dean HowarthAuthors: Dean Howarth
In this post I’d like to talk about how the Microsoft Partner ecosystem offers customers a real choice when they need help transforming their communications platforms. Black & Veatch, an engineering, consulting, and construction company, was faced with an outdated telephony system and an increasingly mobile...
Exchange Server: Experience Isn’t Overnight Wednesday, 15 September 2010 01:28
Written by Lync TeamAuthors: Lync Team
Email continues to be the lifeblood of business communications so it should come as no surprise that vendors of all shapes and sizes want a piece of the action. The fact remains, however,
Microsoft Lync Released to Manufacturing Wednesday, 27 October 2010 07:32
Written by Lync TeamAuthors: Lync Team
Today I have the pleasure of blogging about the final engineering milestone for Microsoft Lync 2010 - the next release of Office Communications Server and Communicator - also known as Release to Manufacturing, or RTM. We're incredibly excited about this release as it's really the culmination of a five-year journey to
Exchange ActiveSync: The Industry Standard for Mobile Messaging Tuesday, 16 November 2010 01:12
Written by Julia WhiteAuthors: Julia White
The other day I was riding a shuttle bus between buildings on the Microsoft campus in Redmond and I took a few minutes to check my Outlook Mobile Inbox on my smartphone. There wasn’t anything urgent I had to respond to immediately, but I did notice that one of my meetings later in the day had a location
Happy Birthday, Exchange 2010! Wednesday, 08 December 2010 01:37
Written by Julia WhiteAuthors: Julia White
It was just over a year ago that I had the privilege of launching Exchange 2010, standing on a stage in Berlin demoing some of the great new features in Exchange. My enthusiasm has only grown in the past year. Up to that point, I had already been on Exchange 2010 for over a year, and I was eager to see how
Exchange Partners Make the Switch From Notes Even Easier Tuesday, 25 January 2011 08:22
Written by Julia WhiteAuthors: Julia White
Exchange is fortunate to have a strong Partner community that helps our customers plan, deploy, and manage their Exchange environments. Our Notes migration Partners have added an extra dimension by providing services and tools to move customers’ data and resources from complex and long-standing Notes