Lync / Skype for Business

Lync – Download Lync Client Attendee

For those who are already using Lync (hosted On Premises or Online) but have host online meeting with people without the Lync client, you may notify them to download the Lync Client Attendee. This will offer them the same user experience than with the Lync client but without the need to have a Lync user […]

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Lync – Obtain configuration details from Lync client

The following is working for both On Premises and Online Lync deployment. From time to time, especially for troubleshooting purposes, this may be important to have access to Lync client configuration (such as Lync web application pool, internal/external URL’s…) This configuration may be difficult to have, especially with Lync Online as you don’t have access

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Lync / Office 365 – Lync Web Scheduler

For those who already are using Lync On Premises, they may already know the Lync Web Scheduler. As a reminder, or to explain what is if for those who don’t know, Microsoft Lync Online Web Scheduler is a web-based meeting scheduling and management tool for users who don’t have access to Microsoft Outlook, or are

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Lync – Tool to manage multiple user account in Lync

As you already know, you can run only one Lync client instance at a time, as with Office Communicator. Even if the situation is not usual, you may have to use multiple Lync account and off course you can’t use them at the same time. A friend of mine has shared a tool which allow

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Office 365 – Lync client for Mac now available from download

Following the announcement of the Lync client for Mac availability, Office 365 customers are now able to download it for use with their Office 365 account. Connect to the download page (https://portal.microsoftonline.com/download/) and go to Step 2 download and install Lync client. To know more about setting up your Mac client, go to: For Enterprise

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Office 365 / Lync – Transition from Live Meeting to Lync

For those who are using Live Meeting, Microsoft has released a white paper to assist you in your transition to Lync. This document covers also the transition from Live Meeting to Lync Online (Office 365) http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26494

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Lync / Jabra – Feedback on Jabra products

Few weeks earlier, I had the opportunity to receive some Jabra products for evaluation. Jabra is providing handset and products which integrate with Communication Server/Lync. I have to say I’m very impressed by the quality and the simplicity of use. Installation is very simple, for advanced products you have a management tool which allow you

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Office 365 – Federation with Live Messenger disabled (temporarily)

The Office 365 has announced that the federation with Live Messenger will be disabled temporarily in order to solve some issue. Indeed, users using a vanity domain with Office 365 were not able to access their Live account. So while the team is working to solve this issue, the IM federation with Live will be

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