This one’s been kicking about for a while, but I thought I’d document it here. If for whatever reason you don’t want a Lync meeting to launch in the client, just append “?sl=1” to the end of the invitation URL: https://meet.contoso.com.au/greiginsydney/ABC123?sl=1 The meeting will launch a page (the image below) that gives you the option …
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I was recently presented with the challenge of how to manage a customer’s client upgrades from OCS to Lync. Users on the company’s domain are OK and catered for with SCCM to push the necessary upgrade, but there are apparently some remote users on workgroup machines that are immune to policy and other sneaky management …
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Superceded 12th Nov2012 by the Mk-II. A not uncommon user-misconfiguration for a Lync user is to find their account possessing a LineURI (their “msRTCSIP-Line”) telephone number, but for them to not be enabled for Enterprise Voice. This more commonly occurs in the early stages of a deployment (ahead of cutover), or as the on-site admins …
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There are plenty of articles that outline the migration process for taking a Standard Edition installation of Lync to Enterprise Edition, but what I’ve not seen covered off is a check-list of things to look out for BEFORE you kill the old SE. The obvious things are checking you’ve: swung DNS updated the Edge (hosts …