Lync Server 2010 Physical Versus Virtual

This is a great comparison chart I found recently in the new Lync Server 2010 Virtualization documentation. If you ever wanted to have a guide for server scaling for Physical versus Virtual this is a great chart for that.

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Lync Server 2010 Web Scheduler Released

Per the download page:

Lync Web Scheduler is a resource kit tool for Microsoft® Lync Server 2010. It provides a Web-based alternative to the add-in for the Microsoft Office Outlook® messaging and collaboration client for the purpose of scheduling a meeting using Lync Server 2010. It also provides a browser-based conference management experience that includes operations such as the following:

• Scheduling a new online Lync meeting.
• Listing all existing Lync Server 2010 meetings that the user has organized.
• Viewing and modifying details of an existing meeting.
• Deleting an existing meeting.
• Sending an email invitation to meeting participants by using a configured SMTP mail server.
• Joining an existing conference

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=b7d8f948-fa64-4c51-8b54-2223954d1fa4&displaylang=en

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snom 821 Qualified for OCS R2 and Lync

snom 821 is Qualified for OCS 2007 R2 and Forward Compatible with Lync Server 2010. The snom 821 is the second qualified standards based phone from snom which provides automatic display of the Lync client buddy list, presence and advanced Microsoft Directory lookup providing quick dialing and convenience to the end user for under $279 (under $129 for the snom300). Its color display is also an XML browser capable of displaying any logo,  ticker (weather, sports scores) or

picture feed from a camera. Connectivity is enhanced beyond its two gig-E ports with optional wireless LAN. No USB connection to a computer is required for snom phones to work with Lync.

If you encounter a mixed Lync environment with another SIP-based PBX (Avaya, Asterisk, Broadsoft, Cisco and others), up to twelve accounts can concurrently register on the same phone providing soft migration and retention of investment. I have actually used this function in my lab to Cisco UCM and Lync and it works well.

· View additional product information on snom 300 and 821.

· Snomtastic helps make deployment of Snom VOIP handset with OCS 2007 R2 and Microsoft Lync deployment easy.

· Reference TechNet IP Phone Comparison table for more information.

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Client Virtualization in Microsoft Lync 2010 Whitepaper

The long awaited Client Virtualization in Microsoft Lync 2010 whitepaper is here. See the link below for the download.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=f865e66d-1163-46ef-ba9c-d585376dfbae&displaylang=en

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