Hi, This has been coming up a few times in recent days on forums and distribution lists. The question is can I install Lync Eval now, and then transfer to full Volume Licensed RTM code when it is available. Well yes you can and it is supported. Here’s how: After you get access to volume…
If you are at all into Unified Communications then you will have heard of Lync 2010. The new replacement for Office Communication Server 2007 R2 (OCS) which is now available as a Release Candidate and will ship soon. Given that Lync has a huge amount of functionality, ranging from simple instant messaging to being a…
Well sort of! G.711 is a voice codec, used by the majority of IP PBXs to encode their audio. OCS and Lync can use it in some circumstances, although Microsoft also has their own codec called RTAudio, which is an adaptive codec and thus aims to cope well with challenging network bandwidth. In OCS there…
I have spent a fair amount of time recently working with Lync 2010 testing out new features and trying to figure out how everything works! One of the exciting developments in Lync is how well integrated it is with the rest of the Microsoft product stack. For me however this has caused some serious…
Hi, Having just written a long (ish) post on a forum, I thought I would post it here for future reference. These are high level methods of connecting OCS 2007 R2 or Lync 2010 to the PSTN. There are three options; In terms of capability of connection to the PSTN (Telephone network) functionally nothing much…
