The Microsoft Lync Blog
The Official Microsoft Lync Blog covering Microsoft UC strategy, offerings and market commentary.
Accelerating our business with partners at WPC 2012!
It’s the beginning of July and that can mean only one thing – the Lync team is heading...
Date: 07/06/2012
Questions about enterprise mobility? Time to brush up on Lync mobile clients
Enterprise mobility is top of mind for a lot of IT leaders at companies everywhere. Considering the...
Date: 05/24/2012
Microsoft Lync at Enterprise Connect 2012
Enterprise Connect covers the major technology trends shaping communications and collaboration. As a...
Date: 03/26/2012
Microsoft Lync: Meeting Unique Deployment Requirements
One of the advantages Lync provides our partners is the ability to choose the deployment strategy...
Date: 01/17/2012
Happy 1st Birthday Lync…
A year ago today, December 1st to be exact, Lync 2010 was first made available to customers. To...
Date: 12/01/2011
Enriching the Lync video conferencing experience
Hello from the world of Lync gadgets! Lync’s one-year anniversary is less than a month away...
Date: 10/31/2011
Lync Earns Recognition
Analysts play a key role in the tech industry. They look at how products are actually being used in...
Date: 10/19/2011
Lync gets people talking
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since the launch of Lync Server 2010...
Date: 09/23/2011
Lync for Mac 2011 Released to Manufacturing
When we first announced Lync Server 2010 last November, we talked about our commitment to supporting...
Date: 09/08/2011
What devices have been certified for Mac?
My role on the Lync team focuses on “gadgets for Lync”, I manage the relationship with...
Date: 09/02/2011
US Army Can Keep Soldiers on Front Lines Connected with Lync
Today I wanted to bring your attention to an article the U.S. Army wrote about its Lync pilot. I was...
Date: 08/25/2011
This is getting personal: Volkswagen Group of America & Microsoft Lync
We’ve all seen how innovative technology can drive productivity, operational efficiencies, and...
Date: 08/10/2011
Hello from the Lync Team at WPC here in sunny L.A.!
It’s the second day at our Worldwide Partner Conference and it’s great to see the energy...
Date: 07/12/2011
We’re looking forward to seeing all our partners at WPC!
Microsoft will host the annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) next week (July 10-14), and we are...
Date: 07/08/2011
Get Face To Face With Lync
This blog is post #7 in the Ten Days of Office series to celebrate the one-year anniversary since...
Date: 06/09/2011
Why Does Lync Beat the Competition?
We have won a lot of projects with customers who were considering some of our competitors’...
Date: 06/02/2011
Interoperability
Interoperability (sometimes also shortened to just “interop”) is a topic that the Lync...
Date: 05/23/2011
Earth Day: Lync can make a difference
Microsoft News Center posted a piece yesterday featuring research from The World Wildlife Fund that...
Date: 04/22/2011
Mobile Device Management Just Got Easier -- Announcing the Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program
I am thrilled to announce the Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program that helps IT Professionals manage...
Date: 04/13/2011
Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Service Update is Now Available!
I’m excited to announce a new release update of our online email protection service Forefront...
Date: 04/04/2011
Make Google Talk Straight to You
I am guest blogging on the Why Microsoft Blog today and tomorrow with some thoughts about Google....
Date: 03/29/2011
Lync PIC Trial Discontinued, Free PIC remains
The Lync marketing team continues to see the value of Public IM Connectivity (PIC) capabilities as a...
Date: 03/01/2011
New Exchange Server 2010 Solution from HP and Microsoft Delivers Large, Low-cost Mailboxes with Ease
A year ago, Microsoft and HP undertook a challenge to provide our customers with solutions to...
Date: 03/01/2011
Email: Not Just a Commodity
In November 2009 Cisco Mail was introduced to the world, but yesterday Cisco announced that they...
Date: 02/24/2011
The Sky Falls, the Ground Shakes, but Lync Keeps People Connected
In this blog post, I want to talk about how, when nature disrupts our lives, technology can help us...
Date: 02/23/2011
Choice, innovation, and quality of experience from Lync audio and video device partners
At the Microsoft Lync launch in November, we introduced more than 70 new devices including IP phones...
Date: 02/23/2011
Exchange Online Frees Godiva From Lotus Notes
What a fun week on the UC Blog! We saw lots of spirited comments from the Notes community,...
Date: 01/28/2011
Exchange Partners Make the Switch From Notes Even Easier
Exchange is fortunate to have a strong Partner community that helps our customers plan, deploy, and...
Date: 01/25/2011
Toshiba Replaces Lotus Notes with Exchange Server 2010 and SharePoint
Almost everyone knows the Toshiba brand, but you might not know that they recently switched from...
Date: 01/23/2011
Don’t Be the Last Company on Notes
The new year is starting off with a bang – a great new set of Notes customers decided to...
Date: 01/23/2011
Engineering, Construction, and Consulting Company Reinvents Communication with Microsoft UC—and Saves $650,000
In this post I’d like to talk about how the Microsoft Partner ecosystem offers customers a...
Date: 01/17/2011
Exchange 2010 Wins Best Mail Server in InfoWorld’s Technology of the Year Award!
I’m excited to share with you that InfoWorld has published its 2011 Technology of the Year...
Date: 01/12/2011
Forefront Protection Server Management Console is now Available!
Ensuring and managing Exchange security is always top of mind for customers. Toward this end,...
Date: 01/11/2011
Email Availability Considerations
Keeping your email up and running is mission critical. While other business applications can go down...
Date: 12/16/2010
Happy Birthday, Exchange 2010!
It was just over a year ago that I had the privilege of launching Exchange 2010, standing on a stage...
Date: 12/08/2010
Lync Partner Eco-System Driving Choice and Value for Customers
Lync 2010 launched on November 17, marking an important milestone in our journey to bring together...
Date: 12/06/2010
How do you Measure Pent-Up Demand?
My first week on the Lync team was back in the beginning of March. With VoiceCon in Orlando...
Date: 11/16/2010
Exchange ActiveSync: The Industry Standard for Mobile Messaging
The other day I was riding a shuttle bus between buildings on the Microsoft campus in Redmond and I...
Date: 11/16/2010
Wonderware Helps Manufacturers Improve Processes with New Communications Tools
In this post I want to talk about one of our partners. Wonderware is a leading supplier of...
Date: 11/05/2010
GREAT QUESTIONS about last week’s RTM Announcement!
Last Wednesday I posted that we'd released Lync to manufacturing, meaning our code is locked and the...
Date: 11/02/2010
Microsoft Lync Released to Manufacturing
Today I have the pleasure of blogging about the final engineering milestone for Microsoft Lync 2010...
Date: 10/27/2010
Office 365: Lync meets the Cloud
Today, we announced Office 365, our next generation cloud productivity service. Office 365 brings...
Date: 10/19/2010
Office 365: The Best of Everything We Know About Productivity in One Cloud Service
Today, Microsoft announced Office 365, which we believe will define the future of productivity....
Date: 10/19/2010
LA Fitness Saves $500,000 Annually and Improves Customer Service with Communications Solution
This week I'd like to talk about LA Fitness and its Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2...
Date: 10/04/2010
Alaskan Firm Taps Microsoft Partners to Save $1 Million with Communications Solution
I would like to introduce you to Alutiiq LLC. Founded in 1971 as part of the Afognak Native...
Date: 09/16/2010
Exchange Server: Experience Isn’t Overnight
Email continues to be the lifeblood of business communications so it should come as no surprise that...
Date: 09/15/2010
The Lync Partner Ecosystem is Ready
The Release Candidate for Microsoft Lync became available yesterday for customers and partners to...
Date: 09/14/2010