Virtualizing Microsoft Lync (Part 1) In past versions of Microsoft Lync (OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2), virtualization of the different workloads really hasn’t been supported by Microsoft. With Microsoft…
Exciting System Center 2012 Features A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit Microsoft and see, first hand, some of what System Center 2012 has in store for…
How to Backup Lync (Part 1) A question that I am frequently asked after we get Lync installed and running is “How do we backup Lync?” This is a great…
Microsoft Project – Fixed Duration, Fixed Units and Fixed Work One of the more difficult scheduling aspects in using Microsoft Project to schedule effort driven work is the concept of…
Microsoft Exchange 2010 – Using Proxying and Redirection (Part 2) Cross-Site Silent Redirection Exchange 2010 SP2 lets administrators configure cross-site silent redirection. When this feature is enabled, a user with…
Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Exchange 2010 UM integration There are a lot of other resources out there that will tell you how to integrate Exchange UM with Microsoft Lync. This…
Microsoft Lync A/V Authentication Issue In one of our most recent Lync implementations we ran into some issues of long post-dial-delay (PDD) on internal, external (Federated or Edge) and PSTN…
TMG (Threat Management Gateway) and Windows Update Error 0x80072f8f You’ve just installed Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) and then head off to install Windows Updates to make sure everything…
Lync Mobility and Front-end services This is more of a PSA entry than anything else. It was recently brought to my attention that the supported topologies for Microsoft Lync have…