Same brand, new products – Lync dude is back
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So Microsoft just announced in a blog article that the new Skype for Business client (Technical preview) is now available to download and test.
so you can register to the insider community and download the new client, which Microsoft brought the familiar Skype client experience that according to their numbers 300 million people used to
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so as you all might know, Lync was killed by Microsoft and the next coming version in first half of 2015 will be called Skype for Business.
I’m not going to write about that as it has been already covered by others, but I’ll share with you the best article out there that summarize it and tell you what is going on
Article Lync Gets a New Name: Skype for Business – By MVP Matt Landis
Social media Hash tag #Skype4B
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some questions I’m getting over social networks are “what do you recommend to learn Lync troubleshooting?” or “How to troubleshoot Lync?”
well, according to my approach regarding this subject, the simple answer is “understand Lync”, or as my colleagues describe me “you talk SIP”.
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This is another one of my “Simple Understanding” articles to provide an easy way to understand how ICE “Interactive Connectivity Establishment” protocol is used in Lync to find available media path for a Lync audio, video, desktop sharing sessions to overcome the Firewall / NAT obstacle in an infrastructure.
the difference with my article is as always the use of simple words and animated diagram to make it easy to visualize how does it works and understand it which will help you planning for your Lync deployment as well as troubleshooting problem related to media session.
This article was really hard to write as I found myself too many times getting into too much details which lead into deleting or cutting paragraphs in it, and finally after 2 weeks I got this, so let’s start.
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I decided to write a “Simple Lync CMS Explanation” article, the difference with this article is that I decided to use easy words not big words as much as I can, to make it easier for Engineers with little SQL experience to understand Lync Database and how does it work, replicate…etc.
So less words and more diagrams to make it understandable, instead of 5 pages of words
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Once again another article from the field, what I do or other Lync experts does to troubleshooting Lync Federation problems.
Will be covering in this article:
Continue reading “The Complete Guide for Troubleshooting Lync/Skype for Business Federation”
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I’ve been busy with too many deployments and onsite support and when have time try to help out the Lync Community via Lync TechNet forum.
While doing that I noticed how many open threads and questions are out there about integration problems between Lync client and Outlook 2010 / 2013 clients.
So I decided to gather all problems, how to troubleshoot and solutions about this particular problem and put them in one article and will be updating this post whenever I find something new regarding this topic some steps are suggested by me, some by other Lync expert out there.
So will start be listing common problems that I faced in my day – to – day work
I will be updating this post as more problem / solutions are reported or faced that were not mentioned above.
