Lync Server 2010 Cumulative Update 3 has been released, and a link to the download page for the relevant bits can be found here.  IMPORTANT NOTE: There is a corresponding database update that must be run when a Lync Server [...]

In certain circumstances it’s very useful to delete current Lync Server 2010 address book files and generate a fresh copy.  Below are instructions on how to do so: Navigate to the following location within the Lync Server 2010 file share: \serverLyncShare1-WebServices-1ABFiles0000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000000000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000  [NOTE: [...]

Today marks an important engineering milestone for Microsoft’s Unified Communications team.  Lync For Mac 2011 has been released to manufacturing, and will be available to enterprise clients in the coming weeks.  Lync For Mac builds on the feature set of [...]

One of the most common requests I get from clients is to provide really brief user documentation for client UC software.  I call this type of document a “one- pager”, and find that it’s a very important piece for driving the user adoption of unified communications tools such as Lync 2010.  The folks over at [...]

Windows PowerShell provides a very flexible and robust administration and scripting environment for Microsoft’s Lync Server 2010.  Below is the syntax for a few quick commandlets which enable an administrator to programmatically stop and restart all the Lync services on [...]

If your organization is undertaking a migration from Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to Lync Server 2010, at some point you will be tasked with migrating all existing user accounts (and assoc. contacts / groups) from one platform to another.  Below [...]