Gartner puts Lync as the only “Strong Positive” in its latest marketscope for IM/P – #Lync

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http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/microsoft/vol14/article7/article7.html

If its raining during my summer holiday – #Lync #WPC11 #Office365

Note to self: If its raining some day, look at these webcasts from WPC

BPVK – The Future of Productivity

http://digitalwpc.com/Videos/AllVideos/Permalink/94ac54e3-733c-4389-9853-2200f8137939/#fbid=ZLbCsT7hLxO

BP03 – Going Big with Lync: Delivering a New, Connected Experience

http://digitalwpc.com/Videos/AllVideos/Permalink/a219a013-9a6e-4c9f-8c8e-b60707e34601/#fbid=ZLbCsT7hLxO

TEL05 – Moving Information Workers to the Cloud

http://digitalwpc.com/Videos/AllVideos/Permalink/b1b14348-cbef-4054-a456-9e7b85367708/#fbid=ZLbCsT7hLxO

BP12 – Microsoft Office 365 Partner Launch

http://digitalwpc.com/Videos/AllVideos/Permalink/12855f3a-12bc-47fb-bacc-0b0c1efeb6c0/#fbid=ZLbCsT7hLxO

TEL04 – Winning Against the Competition: Choosing the Best Email Solution for Your Customers and Beating Google and VMware Zimbra

http://digitalwpc.com/Videos/AllVideos/Permalink/da495294-a940-45e3-b92e-97953fe6a82d/#fbid=ZLbCsT7hLxO

What Your IM Status Says About You

Before Twitter/Facebook/Google+, your instant messenger status had to not just tell people whether or not you were free to chat, but serve as a rudimentary thought dump of quotes and witty sayings. Now social networks actually exist, your status can finally just be your status. But even then, what are the dos and don’ts of IM status?

What might not be obvious is that while you use your IM status in one way, it might not come off the same way to others. Here are some major use cases of IM status and how it’s perceived.

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New section, Lync Training – #Lync

Hi!

Just a quick post to inform you all that I now have a new section in the blog dedicated to Lync Training. It can be found in the top menu or by clicking this link.

http://www.ultimate-communications.com/lync-training/

Office 365 banned domains – #Office365

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Ops, apparently there are a list of banned domains that you are not allowed to use with Office365. I happen to own one of them and its really nothing inappropriate or anything like that.

Anyway, you are able to add the domain but at step two when its time for verification you walk in to a wall and gets the error shown above in your face.

I would really like to know the official policy regarding this and of what names you are allowed to use on Office 365 and what kinds Microsoft don’t want on their service.

Teched North America 2011 Office 365 sessions for your weekend amusement – #Office365

 

From Servers to Services: On-Premise and in the Cloud

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/FDN05

 

Microsoft Office 365: The Future of Productivity

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/OSP212

Microsoft Lync 2010: In the Cloud

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL202

Microsoft Office 365: Deployment Overview

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/OSP216

Identity & Access and Cloud: Better Together

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/SIM205

Windows Phone Productivity Scenarios with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 365

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WPH302

What Do Existing BPOS Customers Need to Do to Prepare for Microsoft Office 365?

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/OSP213

Microsoft Office 365: Identity and Access Solutions

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/OSP215

Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange and Microsoft Office 365: Better Together!

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/SIM331

Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office 365: How to Set Up a Hybrid Deployment

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL311

Microsoft Office 365: Directory Synchronization

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/OSP325

Updated with day 4 sessions

Microsoft Exchange Online in Microsoft Office 365: Migration Case Study

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL309

Microsoft Exchange Online in Microsoft Office 365: Simple Migration Live!

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL310

Microsoft Exchange Online: Unified Messaging in Microsoft Office 365

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL322

Top 10 Insights on Development of Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 against Microsoft Office 365

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL324

Exploring the Office Developer Story in Microsoft Office 365

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/OSP206

Security and Compliance on the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite and Microsoft Office 365 Platforms

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/OSP214

Deploying Microsoft Office Professional Plus Subscription

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/OSP219

Using Active Directory with Microsoft Office 365

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/SIM320

Migrating to Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard and Essentials

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WSV321

Teched North America 2011 Lync sessions for your weekend amusement – #Lync

The sessions from teched na 2011 is now up online so the weekend is saved.

They can all be found here http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011 

And as a service for you the Lync sessions are all found below in this post.

Pop some popcorns and fire up the projector happy watching…

 

Microsoft Lync 2010: Setup,Deployment,Upgrade and Coexistence Scenarios

 

Microsoft Lync 2010: Winning in Voice and Video

Monitoring Microsoft Lync 2010 Deployments

Troubleshooting Microsoft Lync Server 2010

 

Microsoft Lync 2010: High Availability and Resiliency

Setting Up and Deploying Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Edge Servers

Microsoft Lync 2010: In the Cloud

Microsoft Lync Server Unified Communications Managed API: Writing Advanced SIP Applications

Four Ways to Leverage the Microsoft Lync 2010 Client APIs in Your Applications

Windows Phone: What’s New?

 

Update:

Day 4 sessions are now online

Microsoft Lync 2010: Audio, Video and Web Conferencing Architecture and Experience

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL301

Microsoft Lync 2010 and the Enterprise Network

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL314

Microsoft Lync 2010: Core Voice Planning and Deployment

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL315

Microsoft Lync 2010: Interoperability, Integration with Competition or Legacy

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL317

Microsoft Lync Server 2010: Administering Lync Server Deployment

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL321

Top 10 Insights on Development of Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 against Microsoft Office 365

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/EXL324

Hey hotmail why cant I send meeting requests from Outlook anymore? #Hotmail #Outlook

So I sent a lot of meeting requests to hotmail users and they only get a blank message? That kind of suck!

It used to work but since the last couple of days or weeks it doesn’t anymore?

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Any Hotmail experts out there know what I do wrong?

Having a video call in Lync will never be the same again: Cisco/Tandberg eat this! – #Lync

One of the good things with Lync being “just” software is the endless possibilities that opens up to fine tune and create a system that is good for your organizations needs and well, price to for that matter.

First, you can hook up some conference rooms with some RED epic cameras and plug it in to the USB port on a quadcore computer of choice.

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EPIC-M package includes:

  • EPIC-M Brain with titanium PL mount (machined)
  • Bomb EVF
  • 5″ Touchscreen LCD (machined)
  • DSMC Side Handle (machined)
  • DSMC Side SSD Module (machined)
  • REDmote (machined)
  • 4x 128GB SSD cards
  • 4x REDVolt batteries and travel charger
  • Custom laser-cut foam EPIC Pelican 1510 case
  • 2 years of warranty coverage
  • http://www.red.com/store/epic/product/epic-m

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Then there is the brand new LG flicker-free Cinema 3D computer monitors.image

Price is not available yet.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/27/lg-brings-flicker-free-cinema-3d-to-computer-monitors-excel-wil/

After this setup I’m sure your golf buddies that’s been in the coolclub cause they have a cisco / Tandberg / whatever system, will now let you in and even might come to a meeting in your conference room again.

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If you don’t like the RED epics and would go for some other cameras, make sure to look for this sticker.

And to make it easy I would recommend you to look in http://www.ultimate-communications.com/store/ to find all of the devices that are optimized for Microsoft Lync