Weekend reading, December update for Lync docs – #Lync #Weekendreading

There are a lot of docs that have been updated and some new or some that I haven’t read at least.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Administration Guide & Windows PowerShell Supplement

The Lync Server Administration Guide and the Windows PowerShell Supplement contain procedures and guidance for administering a Lync Server 2010 deployment.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Group Chat Deployment Guide

This document guides you through the process of migrating and deploying Lync Server 2010 Group Chat Server and the related components that are required to let organizations set up searchable, topic-based…

Migrating from Office Communications Server 2007 to Lync Server 2010

This document provides guidance from migration from Office Communications Server 2007 to Microsoft Lync Server 2010.

Enabling Quality of Service with Microsoft Lync Server 2010

If your Windows Server network supports Quality of Service (QoS) management, you can take advantage of this functionality to optimize media traffic in your Microsoft Lync Server 2010 deployment. This guide shows you how.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Voice Deployment Guide

This download contains two documents: Deploying Enterprise Voice at Central sites and Deploying Branch Sites

Uninstalling Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Removing Server Roles

…the retiring or decommissioning of existing components that you replace with different or newer components. “Uninstalling Lync Server 2010 and Removing Server Roles” includes procedures for removing server roles and decommissioning a deployment.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Standard Edition Deployment Guide

This document guides you through the process of deploying Lync Server 2010 Standard Edition and configuring dial-in conferencing.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Active Directory Guide

This document guides you through the process of preparing Active Directory for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and includes the Active Directory schema reference.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide

This document guides you through the process of deploying Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Edition and configuring dial-in conferencing for Lync Server 2010.

Migrating from Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to Lync Server 2010

This document provides guidance from migration from Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to Microsoft Lync Server 2010.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Security Guide

The Security Guide provides guidelines for assessing and managing security risks to your Lync Server 2010 deployment.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Response Group Deployment Guide

This download guides you through the process of configuring the Response Group feature for Enterprise Voice.

Deploying the Survivable Branch Appliance in Lync Server 2010 for Cisco Integrated Services Router/Service Ready Engine

This white paper describes how to use a Cisco 3925 ISR G2 configured with a SRE-900 Service Module (Cisco Service Ready Engine Virtualization (SRE-V) support platform) to be deployed as a Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) in a Microsoft Lync Server 2010 environment.

Orion APM Content Application Monitor Template for Lync

This template contains the most common collection of Lync 2010 services, and is configured for WMI services monitoring. No rocket science in this template, but hopefully it saves someone a lot of data entry.

More info and download:

http://thwack.solarwinds.com/media/42/orion-apm-content/application-templates/141467/lync-2010-services/

Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Supportability Guide – Updated

 

Find the updated version of the document here

Since Hyper-V RTM´d last week I thought that maybe that has something to do with the update, but

Virtualization is still NOT supported for any server role in a production environment.

I we tried it in production, it works fine but I we seen some stuff regarding lag that i didn’t notice on a similar box so I DONT recommend it in production