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Randy's Lync and UC Blog: My review of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications 2015
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog. Friday, 14 August 2015. My review of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications 2015. Hello readers. As always I hope this finds you well. In the first few months I was answering questions every day about the change and what it meant. The biggest concern for the IT executives I spoke to was the perception of the name for their bosses. That the product they have been pushing to get approved is now called Skype. Here are a few notable, and welcome, changes:. Full server...
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog: Product Review - Plantronics Blackwire C725-M
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog. Monday, 8 June 2015. Product Review - Plantronics Blackwire C725-M. Hello readers. I hope this finds you well. In this post I'll be reviewing the new Plantronics Blackwire C725-M Active Noise Cancelling USB Headset. Plantronics Voyager Legend UC. The common thread among all of these headsets is that they were always monaural (one ear) and they were all over the ear, either as standard (Mirage) or using the enclosed conversion kit. Plantronics USB Bluetooth Dongle. A couple of mo...
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog: June 2015
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog. Monday, 22 June 2015. Product Review - Plantronics Voyager Edge UC. Hello readers. I hope this finds you well as always. In this post I'll be reviewing the new Plantronics Voyager Edge UC USB Bluetooth headset. As I indicated in my previous post, a Product Review of the Plantronics Blackwire C725-M. The Voyager Edge UC. Is an all new headset from Plantronics which is very similar to the much loved Voyager Legend UC. Voyager Edge charging case. The most noticeable difference is t...
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog: Set up Two-Armed Kemp VLM as Reverse Proxy/HLB for Lync 2013
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog. Wednesday, 11 March 2015. Set up Two-Armed Kemp VLM as Reverse Proxy/HLB for Lync 2013. Hello readers. As always I hope this finds you well. A free version of its hugely popular Virtual LoadMaster. Which can be downloaded from freeloadbalancer.com. I spread the word on social media and got a huge response. I can only imagine Kemp did as well as the news probably went viral. At the same time I heard that Kemp also give a. To Microsoft Certified Professionals. Why do we need one?
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog: Call pick-up in Lync is finally here
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog. Wednesday, 30 October 2013. Call pick-up in Lync is finally here. Those of you that read my post. How to explain the lack of Call Pick-up in Lync as a benefit. All of that said, however, no matter how you explain it customers still want call pick-up. Now Lync has both. Microsoft added call pick-up in the February Cumulative Update. Now that I've had a chance to configure it and play with it I though I would share my experience. The answer is SEFAUtil. To deploy and manage Group ...
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog: How to integrate Lync Server 2013 with Exchange Server 2013 Outlook WebApp in 5 easy steps.
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog. Monday, 4 August 2014. How to integrate Lync Server 2013 with Exchange Server 2013 Outlook WebApp in 5 easy steps. What do you do if you don't have a permanent desktop with Outlook and Lync and that EWS magic? What if all you have is a PC in the public foyer of a hotel? Well fret not, help is at hand. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume a few things. First of all, t. Shameless plug done I'll move onto the science. Create a Trusted Application Pool in Lync. Cert = (Get-Excha...
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog: Product Review - Plantronics Voyager Edge UC
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog. Monday, 22 June 2015. Product Review - Plantronics Voyager Edge UC. Hello readers. I hope this finds you well as always. In this post I'll be reviewing the new Plantronics Voyager Edge UC USB Bluetooth headset. As I indicated in my previous post, a Product Review of the Plantronics Blackwire C725-M. The Voyager Edge UC. Is an all new headset from Plantronics which is very similar to the much loved Voyager Legend UC. Voyager Edge charging case. The most noticeable difference is t...
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog: Firewall rules and data flow for Lync 2013
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog. Wednesday, 12 February 2014. Firewall rules and data flow for Lync 2013. Hello devoted readers. I hope this finds you well. Recently while on a Lync project I was asked by the Network Manager for a better explanation of the firewall rules that needed to be added. I had sent the usual spreadsheet/table you get from the Planning Tool and in the Lync 2013 Detailed Design Calculator. The topology is a Lync 2013 Standard Edition Pool Pair Collocating all the Roles. An Edge Pool w...
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog: August 2015
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog. Friday, 14 August 2015. My review of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications 2015. Hello readers. As always I hope this finds you well. In the first few months I was answering questions every day about the change and what it meant. The biggest concern for the IT executives I spoke to was the perception of the name for their bosses. That the product they have been pushing to get approved is now called Skype. Here are a few notable, and welcome, changes:. Full server...
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog: Lync Trunk Configuration
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Randy's Lync and UC Blog. Wednesday, 24 July 2013. The issue reported was that calls which were put on hold seemed to disappear and couldn't be retrieved. The strange thing was that the person having been put on hold was still on hold. The Lync solution was pretty standard except for the addition of an Asterisk Free PBX which was providing hold music. Wants music on hold? All terminated on mid-call media failure where both endpoints are internal". Lync insisted that it was always the outside party that e...
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