With last week’s release of the first updates for Lync, the question now becomes one of “what do I do?” – and if you know your Monty Python, you’ll know that the correct answer is “Nothing Dear, you’re not qualified”. OK, actually, that’s not quite correct. There are a couple of steps needed…
Whilst it’s great to see Lync now supports E911, it’s not actually relevant to us here in Australia. There is no current requirement for such a means to report your physical location to the emergency operator, although ACMA is aware of and currently seeking comment on this and other related issues. Australia’s current system relies …
New to Lync is the handling of “analog extensions”: faxes, courtesy phones, modems, etc. Prior to Lync, analog devices were typically created and managed through your voice gateways, perhaps with manual routing entries and no control over barring or means of cost recovery. It was far from elegant. Now you can create the extensions themselves …
There are a few places on the web where you can find a walk-through of the process to integrate Lync with Exchange 2010 OWA, including those of Ilse Van Criekinge and Jens Trier Rasmussen. Ilse makes the throw-away comment “You should disable the replication of configuration data to this pool, to prevent CMS from trying to replicate to …
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“SEFAUtil” is one of the utilities in the Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit (“ResKit”), and permits an administrator to make a range of changes to a user’s phone forwarding settings from a command-line utility. Jens has blogged on the not-insignificant pre-req’s of this UCMA-based util. Beware however, that there are some bugs in the current 7577.0 …
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