Unified Communications

Lync sessions at TechEd North America 2012

As I have done the previous years, I have compiled a list of all the Lync related sessions from TechEd North America 2012, which runs this week (June 11-14) in Orlando, FL. They are all available as on demand recordings (webcasts) and slide decks are also online. Here is the complete overview of the Lync sessions: Lync Deep Dive: Dial Plans and Voice Management Deep Dive (Speaker: Javed Tufail Lync Deep Dive: Edge Media Connectivity …

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Lync Mobile clients available

Microsoft has now released mobile clients for Lync, they are long awaited in the community. Lync 2010 for Windows Phone is now available for download via Windows Marketplace and that Lync 2010 clients for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Nokia Symbian have been submitted for approval to their respective app stores. Read more at the UC Team blog

Lync Server 2010 Control Panel – Insufficient access rights to perform the operation

Here are some field notes from a recent Lync 2010 issue. The Lync administrator encountered this this error: “Insufficient access rights to perform the operation” when trying to open the Lync Server 2010 Control Panel. It is a fairly known issue and relates to the AdminSDHolder Elevation Issue as we known on Exchange 2010, see blog post: Exchange 2010 and Resolution of the AdminSDHolder Elevation Issue. The Lync administrator tried to update the phone attribute …

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List of Lync 2010 End User Training Material

I often get asked about Lync 2010 End User Training Material from my clients, who are in the process of deploying Lync or are piloting Lync. I have tried to collect all resources and compile the list below: Lync 2010 Quick Start Guides Microsoft Lync 2010 Training Decks Lync Adoption and Training – Awareness Resources Lync Adoption and Training – All in one download Lync 2010 Work Smart Guides Lync 2010 Quick Reference Cards Lync …

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Exchange UM – cannot change Dial Plan VOPIP Security to Secured

Here are some field notes from a Lync 2010 environment using the telephony and integration to Exchange Unified Messaging for the Voice mail feature. There was a problem changing the UM Dial Plan settings from Unsecured to SIP secured or Secured. The following error may appear on the completion page of the wizard, when you change from unsecured to secured or SIP secured from within your Dial Plan is: The following warning(s) occurred while saving …

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