Do you have both Skype and Lync clients signed in at the same time? I do. I have Lync for work, and Skype for friends and family. Sure, it’s possible to federate between Lync and Skype, but who wants silly chit-chat, and random things said in jest with friends to…
Credit where it’s due, my colleague recently submitted a suggestion to IdeaScale to be able to create an Outlook Task / Reminder to call back a contact from within Lync itself. He wrote… Had a colleague IM me and wanting to upscale to a call but I already had a…
Do you ever get the feeling that searching for users in Lync could be a whole lot easier? A friend pointed out that he couldn’t search for a particular department in a newly deployed Lync Server 2013 environment, yet when he searched with a name, the department information showed up.…
I know the Polycom CX Series (300, 500, 600) have been around a long time, but they still look pretty good by today’s standards. I find it impressive how often I’ve come across these phones deployed, and that they are still requested by clients. A recent project saw the client…
Some of my time is spent away from the comfort of my laptop, in front of people, real people. This part of my job involves talking, evangelising, and identifying the business value from this funny piece of software called Lync. I often find that the word “Lync” is something new…
Another Polycom related post here. Just about to ship out 2x Polycom CX5000 “Unified Conferencing Stations” to a customer, and thought I’d take the opportunity to work out exactly what client version they work with. The documentation only goes up to Lync 2010, so that’s where I’ll start. Firstly, the language on…
