Sometime ago I created a post about using Lync 2010 and Lync 2013 with an OCS 2007 R2 infrastructure. Even do this is not a supported feature a lot of people benefit it from the article as their current environments have not migrated to Lync 2010 or Lync 2013. The …
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I was working on creating a new lab environment for Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013. I decide to create a couple of new portgroups with VLANs on all the ESXi servers. the task was going to be repeated 30 times so I decided to spend a little time creating a script …
One friend send me these lines to automate the configuration of the Lync Client and connect to Office Communicator Server (OCS 2007 R2) environment. Here are the one line to configure your client. For Lync 2010 to OCS reg add HKCUSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftCommunicator /v DisableServerCheck /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f For Lync 2013 …
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Lync 2010 has some great capabilities with the desktop client. Sometimes you want to integrate the basic presence and instant messaging functions with your Exchange 2010 environment. This allows the user to see if the person that they want to email is online and they can start a quick chat. …
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I have received a couple of request of what features work when you connect your Lync 2013 client to an OCS 2007 R2 infrastructure. Here is a list of the features I have tested. This is not an official list, it is just my personal testing. IM chat between internal …
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As most of you know Microsoft released their new Office 2013 suite. The new Lync 2013 client is included with Office 2013. But if you are like me I connect to multiple environments and not all of them are updated or running the latest server build. Here is a quick …